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I am producing 'Oom Baas, the great South African drama, next April at my theatre. Perhaps you know?" "I have read about it in the papers," said Eustace. "Good. Then you may have heard that one of the scenes is an ostrich farm. I want you to play 'Tommy." "One of the ostriches?" asked Eustace. "I do not offer the part of an ostrich to a man who has played Othello.
Silas Croft looked troubled, but made no answer, and Frank Muller rose and stared out of the window. Presently Muller turned round. "Do you know why I have told you all this, Oom Silas?" he asked. "No." "Because I want you to understand that you and all the Englishmen in this country are in a very dangerous position. The war is coming, and whether it goes for you or against you, you must suffer.
"Good-day, Meinheer Frank Muller," replied the old man very coldly, for John had told him of the incident at the shooting-party which so nearly ended fatally, and though he made no remark he had formed his own conclusions. "What are you reading about in the Volkstem, Oom Silas about the Bezuidenhout affair?" "No; what was that?" "It was that the volk are rising against you English, that is all.
Oom Sam explained to the King that, owing to the sentiments of affection and admiration with which the white men regarded him, the three barrels should be made into four, whereupon his Majesty bluntly pronounced the audience at an end and waddled off into his Imperial abode. The two Englishmen walked slowly back to the hut.
"Oh, I don't know," he said, modestly. "Yessir!" said Ascobaruch. "Considerable oration! What I can never understand is how you think up all these things to say. I couldn't do it if you paid me. The other night I had to propose the Visitors at the Old Alumni dinner of Oom University, and my mind seemed to go all blank.
"Yes; if he had neighbors, they might do him an injury," responded the shaggy man. All this while the little fat musicker was breathing the notes: Tiddle-tiddle-iddle, oom, pom-pom, and they had to speak loud in order to hear themselves. The shaggy man said: "Who are you, sir?"
At the Courtiers' Club, the meeting-place of the aristocracy of Oom, five to one in pazazas was freely offered against Merolchazzar's chances, but found no takers; while in the taverns of the common people, where less conservative odds were always to be had, you could get a snappy hundred to eight.
As a recognition of his services, the King had bestowed upon him a large pension, innumerable kaddiz or slaves, and the title of Promoter of the King's Happiness, which for the sake of convenience was generally shortened to The Pro. At present, Oom being a conservative country, the worship of the new god had not attracted the public in great numbers.
He obeyed, and, on arriving at the top of the steep path, they perceived the stout figure of old Hans Coetzee, who had been John's host at the shooting-party, ambling along on his fat little pony. "Ah," said Silas, "here is the man who will tell us if there is anything in it all." "Good-day, Oom Coetzee, good-day!" he shouted out in his stentorian tones. "What news do you bring with you?"
We went through fields and woods and briers and marshy places for a mile or more, when we stopped and mopped our brows and turned homeward without having seen many birds. Mrs. Roosevelt took him to task, I think, when she saw the heated condition in which we returned, for not long afterwards he came to me and said: "Oom John, that was no way to go after birds; we were in too much of a hurry."
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