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Cinderella in the South

Cinderella in the South

Cripps, Arthur Shearly

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ISBN10: 1975756320
ISBN13: 9781975756321
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Aug 29 2017
Pages: 188
Weight: 0.57
Height: 0.40 Width: 5.98 Depth: 9.02
Language: English
'Such nonsense!' he said. 'Believe me, my dear sir, I know the natives, and I know the natives never built these walls. Poor creatures; they want firm handling, don't they? They're always in want of bossing-up. But as for this display of art, they haven't it in them, and they never had.' The engineer did not seem interested in what was said, or in what I answered. He was a man of few words. He went off to the eastern wall, whither we followed him. I found him poking about there with a stick. The Jo'burg charioteer was soon fussing along, hurrying on tea-time. 'He didn't want to get a dose of fever this trip, ' he said. He had heard about our unhealthy season up north, and the month was now April. He wanted to be back by sunset. So it came to pass that his party went off to tea with but side-glances at the hill-fastness. 'I'm neither a baboon nor a nigger, ' said their host, when I proposed that he should go up. After all, it was good-natured of him to motor the dignitary out, I considered. He himself affected no sort of interest in antiquities, and the dignified antiquarian under his care was so wearily keen.

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