Oh, yes, he can ride two horses at once, and blow hot and blow cold.

He is a devil of a man, a devil of a man! And what did he mean by swearing at you like that?
Is it about the _missie_ (girl), I wonder?
Almighty! who can say?
Ah! that reminds me--though I'm sure I don't know why it should--the Kafirs tell me that there is a big herd of buck--vilderbeeste and blesbok--on my outlying place about an hour and a half (ten miles) from Mooifontein.

Can you hold a rifle, Captain?
You look like a bit of a hunter." "Oh, yes, Meinheer!" said John, delighted at the prospect of some shooting.
"Ah, I thought so.

All you English are sportsmen, though you don't know how to kill buck.

Well now, you take _Oom_ Croft's light Scotch cart and two good horses, and come over to my place--not to-morrow, for my wife's cousin is coming to see us, and an old cat she is, but rich; she has a thousand pounds in gold in the waggon-box under her bed--nor the next day, for it is the Lord's day, and one can't shoot creatures on the Lord's day--but Monday, yes, Monday.