[Child of Storm by H. Rider Haggard]@TWC D-Link bookChild of Storm CHAPTER VII 17/24
There, I have spoken, and, Saduko, if you now have cattle, why, on my part, I have another daughter, not quite so good-looking perhaps, but a much better worker in the field.
Come and drink a sup of beer, and I will send for her." "Stop talking about your other daughter and your beer and listen to me," replied Saduko, looking at the assegai which he had thrown to the ground so ominously that I set my foot on it.
"I am now a greater chief than the boar Masapo.
Has Masapo such a bodyguard as these Eaters-up-of-Enemies ?" and he jerked his thumb backwards towards the serried lines of fierce-faced Amangwane who stood listening behind us. "Has Masapo as many cattle as I have, whereof those which you see are but a tithe brought as a lobola gift to the father of her who had been promised to me as wife? Is Masapo Panda's friend? I think that I have heard otherwise.
Has Masapo just conquered a countless tribe by his courage and his wit? Is Masapo young and of high blood, or is he but an old, low-born boar of the mountains? "You do not answer, Umbezi, and perhaps you do well to be silent.
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