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"I think," said the German in an undertone, "if you didn't look at her quite so much it might be advisable. She ah she might imagine that you liked her too well, in fact ah " "Certainly, my dear friend, certainly," said the stranger. "I shall not look at her." Saying this, he turned his nose full upon a small Kaffer of two years old.
He crouched down between two stones and gave the call. Just then the milk-herd came walking out of the cow-kraal with two pails. He was an ill-looking Kaffer. "Ah!" thought the boy, "perhaps he will die tonight, and go to hell! I must pray for him, I must pray!" Then he thought "Where am I going to?" and he prayed desperately.
Their route lay through Strana , which produces good silk; then through Gursey, Gurghia, or Georgia, which is inhabited by Christians; after this, through the country of, Lahinsham , where silk is cultivated; and through Schurban, or Shirvan, where the silk is produced from which the silk stuffs of Damascus and Kaffer are made.
Beside the milk-bush sat the Kaffer woman still like Hagar, he thought, thrust out by her mistress in the wilderness to die. Telling her to loosen the handkerchief from her head, he poured into it the contents of his bag. The woman tied it up in sullen silence. "You must try and get to the next farm," said the German. The woman shook her head; she would sleep in the field. The German reflected.
They used to run and fetch the dresses and ribbons to show them, and they seemed to me like worms with oil on. There was one respectable thing in that store it was the Kaffer storeman. His work was to load and unload, and he never needed to smile except when he liked, and he never told lies. "The other clerks gave me the name of Old Salvation; but there was one person I liked very much.
"There at the foot of the kopje goes a Kaffer; he has nothing on but a blanket; he is a splendid fellow six feet high, with a magnificent pair of legs. In his leather bag he is going to fetch his rations, and I suppose to kick his wife with his beautiful legs when he gets home. He has a right to; he bought her for two oxen.
Even the cocks, seen in the light of parting, had a peculiar interest, and he listened with conscious attention while one crowed clear and loud as it stood on the pigsty wall. He wished good morning softly to the Kaffer woman who was coming up from the huts to light the fire. He was leaving them all to that old life, and from his height he looked down on them pityingly.
Gregory felt that what she said was not wholly intended as blame. "Well, I don't know," he said sulkily; "to me he looks like a fool. To walk about always in that dead-and-alive sort of way, muttering to himself like an old Kaffer witchdoctor! He works hard enough, but it's always as though he didn't know what he was doing. You don't know how he looks to a person who sees him for the first time."
One can always get another husband, but one can't get another father," said Tant Sannie, casting a sidelong glance at Bonaparte. Bonaparte expressed a wish to give Waldo his orders for the next day's work, and accordingly the little woolly-headed Kaffer was sent to call him. After a considerable time the boy appeared, and stood in the doorway.
From time to time the little animal lifted its fat hand as it expected a fresh shower of curls; till Doss, jealous of his master's noticing any other small creature but himself, would catch the curl in his mouth and roll the little Kaffer over in the sawdust, much to that small animal's contentment.
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