mutenu

Updated: May 6, 2025

Then the guest looked up from his book and stated his alibi: 'I was in my stable, sitting up with a sick horse, he said. 'I came away long after the church service was over when the poor beast died with frothing at the nose. You can ask my stable-boy. Jack bowed his head respectfully. 'Your stableboy, Mutenu, has told me so this evening, he said. 'But, O master, why should we lie?

Arthur Shearly Cripps - Cinderella in the South: Twenty-Five South African Tales