CHAPTER 1.XI.He Snaps.
"I have found something in the loft," said Em to Waldo, who was listlessly piling cakes of fuel on the kraal wall, a week after.

"It is a box of books that belonged to my father.

We thought Tant Sannie had burnt them." The boy put down the cake he was raising and looked at her.
"I don't think they are very nice, not stories," she added, "but you can go and take any you like." So saying, she took up the plate in which she had brought his breakfast, and walked off to the house.
After that the boy worked quickly.

The pile of fuel Bonaparte had ordered him to pack was on the wall in half an hour.

He then went to throw salt on the skins laid out to dry.