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Now he knew that it was in vain, he regretted only his wasted efforts he had no sentimental regrets in leaving him. It was his own life he wanted his own life he meant to fight for. "I wouldn't swear at Oom Sam too hard," Monty continued. "Remember for the last two days he was doing all he could to get us out of the place.
But Oom Paul has a great deal to think about he must think for the whole nation. The 'unfortunate affair which occurred after 1895' seems to trouble him a great deal. Despite the fact that the country was well paid for it, this incident seems fated to crop up at least every six months, and it will be handed down to generations untold, so that it may ever be kept green.
But, on the other 'and, Dirk, Stiletto, Goblin, Ghoul, Djinn, and A-frite Red Fleet dee-stroyers, with 'oom we hope to consort later on terms o' perfect equality are Thorneycrofts, an' carry that Grecian bend which we are now adjustin' to our arriere-pensee as the French would put it by means of painted canvas an' iron rods bent as requisite.
Chamberlain, the papers wrote, was strengthening the hands of the President, to avert civil war, which must have been dangerously near; but the most important man of the moment in South Africa was grudgingly admitted to be "Oom Paul."
And because it has displayed the best and noblest qualities and on all occasions endeavoured to obviate friction with other people, it has been unjustly assailed and trampled upon. Oom Paul is a very good man, but he kicks at the traces a great deal.
With an obscene malediction at the body, he sprang upon a horse. A sjambok swung, and with a snort, which was half a groan, the trained horses sprang forward. "The Rooinek's gun for Oom Paul!" he shouted back over his shoulder. Most prisoners would have been content to escape and save their skins, but a more primitive spirit lived in Krool. Escape was not enough for him.
On the very day in which Oom Paul would send his ultimatum, the means came to his hand. "Prepare!" the cable to the Baas had read.
They could not make these out at first, but as they became louder our friends thought they heard a sort of music like that made by a wheezy hand-organ; the music fell upon their ears in this way: Tiddle-widdle-iddle oom pom-pom! Oom, pom-pom! oom, pom-pom! Tiddle-tiddle-tiddle oom pom-pom! Oom, pom-pom pah! "What is it, a band or a mouth-organ?" asked Dorothy. "Don't know," said Button-Bright.
"There was something else I wanted to ask," he said a moment or two later. "What about the man Francis. Has he been heard of lately?" Oom Sam shook his head. "Ten months ago," he answered, "a trader from Lulabulu reported having passed him on his way to the interior. He spoke of visiting Sugbaroo, another country beyond. If he ventured there, he will surely never return."
I answered, "Perhaps they were frightened away, Oom." "Ja," he said, "but look, General, it seems to me as if our members of the Government do not intend to continue the war. You can see this by the way they have now left everything behind for the second time." "No, old Oom," I replied, "we should not take any notice of this.
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