[The Story of an African Farm by (AKA Ralph Iron) Olive Schreiner]@TWC D-Link bookThe Story of an African Farm CHAPTER 1 6/21
I'm not afraid to die.
My legs are long--they hang down--the first bear that comes and I don't hit him, off goes my foot. When he takes it I shall give you my gun and go.
You may yet be saved; but tell, oh, tell Mary Ann that I thought of her, that I prayed for her.' "'Good-bye, old fellow,' said he. "'God bless you,' said I. "By this time the bears were sitting in a circle all around the tree. Yes," said Bonaparte impressively, fixing his eyes on the German, "a regular, exact, circle.
The marks of their tails were left in the snow, and I measured it afterward; a drawing-master couldn't have done it better.
It was that saved me.
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