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These benches, though far from luxurious couches, were better than the ground under the rotten fragments of my gipsy-tent, for we had still showers occasionally, and the dews were very heavy. I continued to use them for the sake of the shelter they afforded, until I found that they were lodgings also for certain inconvenient bedfellows.
"Just like a baby blackbird's before it has got its feathers. And that big silver disc! like the family plate on the family chest." "It's protection from all evil, poor wee mite." "What a filthy-looking hovel," Millicent said. "Worse than a gipsy-tent in England." "And yet it's a home," Michael said.
He had been visited during my absence at the Cape by some traders and Griquas, and "their coffee did not taste half so nice as mine, because they loved his ivory and not himself." This was certainly an original mode of discerning character. Sekeletu and I had each a little gipsy-tent in which to sleep. The Makololo huts are generally clean, while those of the Makalaka are infested with vermin.
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