Category: Children & Young Adult Reading
My thanks are due to Dr. Maitland Park, Editor of The Cape Times, and Adv. B. K. Long, M.L.A., Editor of The State, for their kind permission to republish such of these tales as have appeared in their papers.
My thanks are due to Dr. Maitland Park, Editor of The Cape Times, and Adv. B. K. Long, M.L.A., Editor of The State, for their kind permission to republish such of these tales as...
2. Part 2"At any other time Jakhals would have skipped with delight, for it was very seldom he had the honour of such an invitation, but now he was blown up with conceit at having cheate...
3. Part 3"'It's very dull here in the veld,' he said, 'and food is so scarce, so I'm going to hire myself to a farmer. He'll give me lots to eat and drink, and when I'm nice and fat I'll...
4. Part 4"'O, Lady Moon, I have given them your message: "Like as I die and, dying, perish, so also shall you die and come wholly to an end," and they are all stiff with fright. Ha! ha!...
5. Part 5"Jakhals opened his mouth, and bit and bit, and his mouth stuck fast. There he was, all in a bundle, sticking altogether fast to the black stone, and the more he tried to get fr...
6. Part 6"And have the baasjes then never heard of a red tortoise? Yes, certainly, sometimes a red one is born, but not often--only once in a thousand years; and when this happens the ne...