jannita's

Updated: May 21, 2025

Dirk, the Hottentot, had brought his flock home already, and stood at the kraal door with his ragged yellow trousers. The fat old Boer put his stick across the door, and let Jannita's goats jump over, one by one. He counted them. When the last jumped over: "Have you been to sleep today?" he said; "there is one missing." Then little Jannita knew what was coming, and she said, in a low voice, "No."

Olive Schreiner - Dream Life and Real Life; a little African story