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Updated: May 16, 2025
"I know how it was when my first husband died. They could do nothing with me," the Boer-woman said, "till I had eaten a sheep's trotter, and honey, and a little roaster-cake. I know." Bonaparte sat up on the bed with his legs stretched out in front of him, and a hand on each knee, blubbering softly. "Oh, she was a woman! You are very kind to try and comfort me, but she was my wife.
The grey mouse, who had his hole under the toolbox, came out and sat on the sacks in the corner; then, growing bolder, the room was so dark, it climbed the chair at the bedside, nibbled at the roaster-cake, took one bite quickly at the candle, and then sat on his haunches listening.
How to be clean and tidy nobody had ever shown her, though she had learned by instinct other things. That it was best to bear hunger and pain in silence, lest worse befell. That a truth for which one suffers is not as good as a lie for which one gets a bigger roaster-cake, or the scrapings of the syrup-can.
The ten commandments and the old "Thou shalt" we have heard about long enough and don't care about it; but this new law sets us on fire. We will deny ourself. Our little wagon that we have made, we give to the little Kaffers. We conscientiously put the cracked teacup for ourselves at breakfast, and take the burnt roaster-cake.
He decided for the overcoat; it was warm, certainly, but then he could carry it over his arm and only put it on when he met some one along the road. It was more respectable than the black alpaca. He hung the greatcoat over the back of the chair, and stuffed a hard bit of roaster-cake under the knot of the bundle, and then his preparations were completed.
And the fat old Boer smiled at her; and the stick he held across the door, for the goats to jump over, was a lily rod with seven blossoms at the end. When she went to the house her mistress gave her a whole roaster-cake for her supper, and the mistress's daughter had stuck a rose in the cake; and her mistress's son-in-law said, "Thank you!" when she pulled off his boots, and did not kick her.
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