My mother sat down on the grass and nursed her baby, while I played round her, and the cow grazed.

Presently we saw a woman walking towards us across the plain.

She walked like one who is tired.

On her back was a bundle of mats, and she led by the hand a boy of about my own age, but bigger and stronger than I was.

We waited a long while, till at last the woman came up to us and sank down on the veldt, for she was very weary.