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Updated: May 28, 2025
We hauled her out once more, and found the oil-cloth had been cut by the jagged ice, so there was nothing for it but to remove it altogether and put on another. This was done, and soon our waggon-box was once again afloat. This time I reached in safety the farther side; but there a difficulty arose which we had not foreseen.
"Bring a pannikin of water, here lies a sick Kaffir," shouted Jan to Ralph, who was still seated on the waggon-box staring at the mountain. Ralph brought the water, and the soldier drank it greedily. "Who are you, and how come you here?" asked Jan. "I am a soldier of Dingaan," answered the man, "but when we were attacking the little people on that mountain I fell sick.
Well now, you take Oom Croft's light Scotch cart and two good horses, and come over to my place not to-morrow, for my wife's cousin is coming to see us, and an old cat she is, but rich; she has a thousand pounds in gold in the waggon-box under her bed nor the next day, for it is the Lord's day, and one can't shoot creatures on the Lord's day but Monday, yes, Monday.
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