Old Hendrik's Tales, by Captain Arthur Owen Vaughan. ________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ OLD HENDRIK'S TALES, BY CAPTAIN ARTHUR OWEN VAUGHAN. CHAPTER ONE. WHY OLD BABOON HAS THAT KINK IN HIS TAIL. The day was hot, and the koppies simmered blue and brown along the Vaal River. Noon had come, dinner was done. "Allah Mattie!" said the grey old kitchen boy to himself, as he stretched to sleep in the shade of the mimosa behind the house. "Allah Mattie! but it near break my back in dem tobacco lands dis mawnin'. I sleep now." He stretched himself with a slow groan of pleasure, settling his …
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