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Jess

CHAPTER VIII
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Not that I hold with ostriches in this veldt; they are well enough in the old colony, but they won't breed here--at least, not as they should do.

I tried them once and I know; oh, yes, I know." [*] A disease that is very fatal to sheep.
"Yes, it's a very fine country, _Meinheer_.

I have been all over the world almost, and I never saw a finer." "You don't say so, now! Almighty, what a thing it is to have travelled! Not that I should like to travel myself.

I think that the Lord meant us to stop in the place He has made for us.

But it is a fine country, and" (dropping his voice) "I think it is a finer country than it used to be." "You mean that the veldt has got 'tame', _Meinheer_ ?" "Nay, nay.


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