[The Story of an African Farm by (AKA Ralph Iron) Olive Schreiner]@TWC D-Link book
The Story of an African Farm

CHAPTER 1
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When it is done they will have to make a large one." "Show it me." The boy shook his head.
"No, not till it is done.

I cannot let any human being see it till then." "It is a beautiful secret," said Em; and the boy shuffled out to pick up his skins.
That evening father and son sat in the cabin eating their supper.

The father sighed deeply sometimes.

Perhaps he thought how long a time it was since Bonaparte had visited the cabin; but his son was in that land in which sighs have no part.

It is a question whether it were not better to be the shabbiest of fools, and know the way up the little stair of imagination to the land of dreams, than the wisest of men, who see nothing that the eyes do not show, and feel nothing that the hands do not touch.


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