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Updated: September 10, 2025
Perhaps it was a sense that the information would not be well received by her father that prevented her from mentioning that the greatest of those friends was the old witch-doctor, Menzi, whom she often met when she was rambling about the place. Or it may have been pure accident, since Thomas was too busy to bother about such trifles, while her mother, who of course knew, kept her own counsel.
Then he stepped out of the gateway, and sat down upon a stone hiding his eyes with his hand. Menzi threw down the knife and leapt in, followed by his servant who bore his medicines, and the woman Ivana.
Yet as it chanced the tongue or clapper of it took a lower course, perhaps because it was heavier, and rushing onwards like a thrown spear, struck Menzi full upon the chest, crushing in his breast bone. They bore him up to the mission-house, since there was nowhere else whither he could be taken.
Occasionally Thomas succeeded in converting one of Menzi's followers, and occasionally Menzi snatched a lamb from the flock of Thomas, with the result that the scales remained even neither going up nor down.
It is an ideal site for a house, not more than three minutes' walk from the church below, the best I should say in the whole valley. And then, consider the view." Everyone agreed, and they were leaving the place in high spirits, Dorcas, who had household matters to attend, having already departed, when whom should they encounter but Menzi seated on a stone just where the path began to descend.
"I wish I had asked him if he had a cure for your local fever," said the Bishop with a laugh, "for against it, although I have taken so much that my ears buzz, quinine cannot prevail." Will you have some, Bishop? It is well corked up with clay, and Menzi said it would keep for years." "Well, my dear," answered the Bishop, "I don't quite know. There may be all sorts of queer things in Mr.
"Do you all see that," asked Menzi, "and is it what the Teacher said he would think about?" "Yes, Doctor," they answered. "Then look once more, for I will think of something. I will think of that church falling. Look once more." They looked, and behold the shadowy fabric began to totter, then it seemed to collapse, and last of all down went the spire and vanished in the smoke.
Moreover, with a woman's perception she felt that if only he were a friend, at a pinch he might be worth all the others put together, while if he were an enemy, conversely the same applied. So it came about that in the end there arose a very strange state of affairs. Menzi hated Thomas and did all he could to thwart him.
Then, bidding one of the oldest of the children to take her place and continue sucking, Ivana ran to a high rock a few yards away which overlooked Menzi's kraal, that lay upon a plain at a distance of about a quarter of a mile, and called out in the low, ringing voice that Kaffirs can command, which carries to an enormous distance. "Awake, O Menzi! Come, O Doctor, and bring with you your Dawa.
Menzi, it will be remembered, had given Tabitha a kid of a long-haired variety of goat peculiar to these parts. This little creature had already grown attached to its mistress and walked about after her, in the way which pet goats have.
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