[The Story of an African Farm by (AKA Ralph Iron) Olive Schreiner]@TWC D-Link bookThe Story of an African Farm CHAPTER 2 14/54
He stood in the door grinning. "'It didn't take much to kill that bag-of-bones, whose master sleeps in a packing-case, and waits till his company's finished to eat on the plate.
Shouldn't wonder if you fed her on sugar-bags,' he said; 'and if you think I've jumped her, you'd better go and look yourself.
You'll find her along the road by the aasvogels that are eating her.' "I caught him by his collar, and I lifted him from the ground, and I threw him out into the street, half-way across it.
I heard the bookkeeper say to the clerk that there was always the devil in those mum fellows; but they never called me Salvation after that. "I am writing to you of very small things, but there is nothing else to tell; it has been all small and you will like it.
Whenever anything has happened I have always thought I would tell it to you.
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