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Nada the Lily

CHAPTER I
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Had Chaka lived he would have been as old as I.( 2) None are living whom I knew when I was a boy.

I am so old that I must hasten.

The grass withers, and the winter comes.

Yes, while I speak the winter nips my heart.

Well, I am ready to sleep in the cold, and perhaps I shall awake again in the spring.
(2) This would have made him nearly a hundred years old, an age rarely attained by a native.


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