Category: Short Stories
The day was hot, and the koppies simmered blue and brown along the Vaal River. Noon had come, dinner was done. "Allah Mattie!" said the grey old kitchen boy to himself, as he stretched to sleep in the shade of the mimosa behind the house. "Allah Mattie! but it near break my ba...
The day was hot, and the koppies simmered blue and brown along the Vaal River. Noon had come, dinner was done. "Allah Mattie!" said the grey old kitchen boy to himself, as he st...
3. CHAPTER THREE.A solid burst of rain; the hissing, thrashing deluge of the high veldt had driven the hoe-wielders from the tobacco "lands," and the old Hottentot had retired thankfully to the...
8. CHAPTER EIGHT.The three children were lounging with the dogs under the tall blue-gums by the house corner, when the old Hottentot stepped out of the kitchen to find a shady spot for his after...
5. CHAPTER FIVE.It was a day or two afterwards before the children caught Old Hendrik in the mood again. But sweet dumplings to dinner, with cinnamon sauce, had mellowed him this day, and they...
6. CHAPTER SIX.The little girl was in a great way for a day or two at the immunity of the rascal Jackal in his dealings with Old Wolf. "But, Ou' Ta'," demanded she at last, "did Ou' Wolf _neve...
11. CHAPTER ELEVEN.The youngest of the three children had brought in a tortoise from the spruit behind the house, and was half-indignant and half-amused at the stolid refusal of Mr Tortoise to put...
2. CHAPTER TWO."Ou' Ta'," said the eldest boy the next evening, as they waited at the kraal for the coming of the cows to the milking, "you never told us what Old Bobbyjohn said to Old Wolf th...
12. CHAPTER TWELVE."But," demanded Annie of the old Hottentot, a couple of days later, "after that horrid Little Hare cheated Old Tortoise over the little twinkly fishes, what did Old Tortoise say...
7. CHAPTER SEVEN.The children had been privately discussing for several days the state of things as between Ou' Jackalse and Ou' Wolf, and the verdict came out on this hot mid-day as they sat be...
10. CHAPTER TEN.Old Hendrik was standing by the corner of the house, milking pail in hand, watching the slow procession of the cows homeward from the veldt. The calves in the kraal clamoured in...
9. CHAPTER NINE.The little girl was full of excitement. Driving home with her mother from the "dorp," she had seen Ou' Jackalse himself--Mynheer Jackal-- slinking across the veldt, and all the...
4. CHAPTER FOUR.The pigs had been very troublesome all the morning, almost destroying the gate of the garden in their efforts to get at the tempting show within. It was in reward for the help o...
13. CHAPTER THIRTEEN.The children were accompanying Old Hendrik from the tobacco lands to the mealie lands farther out, and on the way, in crossing the broken, bush-grown spruit between, the eldest...