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Allan’s Wife

CHAPTER IV
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If I die, I die." "Very well, Macumazahn, then stay and be killed," he answered, taking a pinch of snuff.

"Come, let us see about the waggons," and we walked towards the laager.
Here everything was in confusion.

However, I got hold of Hans Botha and put it to him if it would not be best to desert the waggons and make a run for it.
"How can we do it ?" he answered; "two of the women are too fat to go a mile, one is sick in childbed, and we have only six horses among us.
Besides, if we did we should starve in the desert.

No, Heer Allan, we must fight it out with the savages, and God help us!" "God help us, indeed.

Think of the children, Hans!" "I can't bear to think," he answered, in a broken voice, looking at his own little girl, a sweet, curly-haired, blue-eyed child of six, named Tota, whom I had often nursed as a baby.


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