But how did you hear it, and how do you know me ?" "I heard it from one Saduko"-- here she frowned a little--"and others, and I knew you because you are so beautiful"-- an incautious speech at which she broke into a dazzling smile and tossed her deer-like head.
"Am I ?" she asked.

"I never knew it, who am only a common Zulu girl to whom it pleases the great white chief to say kind things, for which I thank him"; and she made a graceful little reverence, just bending one knee.

"But," she went on quickly, "whatever else I be, I am of no knowledge, not fit to tend you who are hurt.

Shall I go and send my oldest mother ?" "Do you mean her whom your father calls the 'Worn-out-old-Cow,' and whose ear he shot off ?" "Yes, it must be she from the description," she answered with a little shake of laughter, "though I never heard him give her that name." "Or if you did, you have forgotten it," I said dryly.

"Well, I think not, thank you.