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Updated: May 21, 2025
The two young ladies, Truey Von Bloom and Wilhelmina Van Wyk, were delighted at again meeting with their lovers, and, what is more, were honest enough to admit that such was the case.
Whatever were its thoughts at that moment, it was evidently in a rage as the motion of its head and the flashing of its eyes testified; and it would have sprung upon any creature that had unfortunately come its way. Trüey, however, had no intention of getting in its way if she could avoid it.
The ground proved tolerably loose, and the pick was but little needed. The field-cornet himself handled one of the spades Hendrik the other, while Swartboy acted as shoveller, and filled the baskets as fast as Hans and Totty, assisted by Trüey and little Jan, could empty them.
No wonder, then, at the result it had produced the death of the mightiest of quadrupeds. As soon as it became known that the elephant was dead, everybody was seen rushing forward to the spot. Little Truey and Jan were called from their hiding-place for they had both been hidden in the wagon and Totty, too, went down with the rest.
Jan, however, had observed them better than Truey; and had they been nearer, he might have further noticed that the creatures had red fiery eyes and a fierce look; that their heads and horns were not unlike those of the African buffalo; that their limbs resembled those of the stag, while the rest corresponded well enough to his "pony."
Whatever were its thoughts at that moment, it was evidently in a rage as the motion of its head and the flashing of its eyes testified; and it would have sprung upon any creature that had unfortunately come in its way. Truey, however, had no intention of getting in its way if she could avoid it.
"Where is the snake?" As he put these questions, he kept examining Truey from head to foot, as if expecting to see a reptile twined around some part of her body. "The snake, Jan! Did you not see it? It was just there, at our feet; but now see! yonder it is. The secretary has got it. See! They are fighting! Good bird! I hope it will punish the villain for trying to rob my pretty weavers.
Truey and little Jan sat beside Swartboy on the fore-chest of the wagon; and the round full eyes of the pretty springbok could be seen peeping curiously out from under the cap-tent. Casting a last look upon his desolate kraal, the field-cornet turned his horse's head, and rode after the wagon. On moved the little caravan, but not in silence.
I was busy all the afternoon in cutting `wait-a-bit' thorns for a kraal. Totty helped me to drag them up, while Jan and Truey looked after the flock. The animals did not stray out of the valley here, as the grass was good, and they had had enough of trotting lately. "Well Totty and I got the kraal, as you see, all ready.
She could only scream, and fling her arms wildly about. But these demonstrations, instead of warning Jan of the danger, only rendered it the more certain. He connected the cries which Truey now uttered with that which had first summoned him. She was in some trouble he knew not what; but as she continued to scream, he believed that something had attacked her.
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