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The Ivory Child

CHAPTER VI
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He will say, 'Hans, you were drunk again.
Hans, you are a liar and deserve to be flogged, which you will be next time.

Pay a pound and ten shillings more, which is the price of good white justice, or go to the _trunk_ for fourteen days and make baskets there for the great Queen to use.' Baas, I have the price of the justice which is ten shillings, but I want to borrow the pound for the fine." "Hans, I think that just now you are better able to lend me a pound than I am to lend one to you.

My bag is empty, Hans." "Is it so, Baas?
Well, it does not matter.

If necessary I can make baskets for the great white Queen to put her food in, for fourteen days, or mats on which she will wipe her feet.

The _trunk_ is not such a bad place, Baas.


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