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"We do not know, chief," they answered, "or rather, we cannot tell if our ruler is alive or dead, and if she is dead then none are left of the true blood. She was a small woman, but very pretty and full of wisdom as a mealie-cob with grains of corn, for in all this country there was no doctoress or diviner like to her.
"Ah, I see," rejoined Considine, who observed a twinkle in the eyes of some of Mynheer's stalwart sons. "Yes," pursued the farmer, buttering another mealie-cob, and commencing to eat it with infinite gusto, "you see, the Cape Dutchmen, although as fine a set of men as ever lived, are just a little too contented and slow; on the other hand, young sir, you English are much too reckless and fast "
Somers, is 'one grain of corn on a mealie-cob' about his or anybody else's life, which from all I have heard of his proceedings I can well believe to be true.
Conrad Marais, however, could take a joke, although not much given to making one. He smiled blandly over the edge of his mealie-cob. "You're right, sir, right; the mixture is not a bad one. The Dutch element gives steadiness, the English vigour, and the French spirit.
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