The Project Gutenberg eBook, Cinderella in the South, by Arthur Shearly CrippsThis eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it,give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online atwww.gutenberg.orgTitle: Cinderella in the South Twenty-Five South African TalesAuthor: Arthur Shearly CrippsRelease Date: October 5, 2007 [eBook #22886]Language: EnglishCharacter set encoding: ISO-646-US (US-ASCII)***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK CINDERELLA IN THE SOUTH***E-text prepared by Charles KlingmanCINDERELLA IN THE SOUTHNew York AgentsLongmans, Green & Co.Fourth Avenue and 30th StreetCINDERELLA IN THE SOUTHSouth African TalesbyARTHUR SHEARLY CRIPPSAuthor of 'Faerylands Forlorn,''Lyra Evangelistica,' Etc.OxfordB. H. Blackwell, Broad StreetMCMXVIIITo C. H. CRIPPSFRIEND AND KINSMAN.Grace me these veld spoils rude with name of thine!Mine's been the luck not thine these long years nowTo tread the veld. What other use had'st thou,Hunter and Horseman, made of chances mine!Nor horns nor heads have I to give to thee,Yet spoils of sorts veld spoils I bring with me.A. S. C.Eukeldoorn, Mashonaland.October 11th, 1917.CONTENTSPROLOGUETHE THING THAT HATH BEENNEW LIGHT ON AN OLD CHAMPIONFUEL OF FIRE'LA BELLE DAME'THE SCENTED TOWNTHE PLACE OF PILGRIMAGETHE LEPER WINDOWSTHE BURNT OFFERINGEIGHTY-EIGHT IN ...
Title: Cinderella in the South Twenty-Five South African Tales
Oxford B. H. Blackwell, Broad Street MCMXVIII
This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org
E-text prepared by Charles Klingman
***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK CINDERELLA IN THE SOUTH***
Release Date: October 5, 2007 [eBook #22886] Language: English Character set encoding: ISO-646-US (US-ASCII)
Author: Arthur Shearly Cripps
CINDERELLA IN THE SOUTH South African Tales by ARTHURSHEARLYCRIPPS Author of 'Faerylands Forlorn,' 'Lyra Evangelistica,' Etc.
CINDERELLA IN THE SOUTH
New York Agents Longmans, Green & Co. Fourth Avenue and 30th Street
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Eukeldoorn, Mashonaland.
October 11th, 1917.
CONTENTS
PROLOGUE
THETHINGTHATHATHBEEN
NEWLIGHTONANOLDCHAMPION
FUELOFFIRE
'LA BELLEDAME'
THESCENTED TOWN
THEPLACEOFPILGRIMAGE
THELEPER WINDOWS
THEBURNT OFFERING
EIGHTY-EIGHTINLAVENDER
DIVINATION
JULIAN
THEDOUBLECABIN
INTELLIGENCE
ACREDITBALANCE
MAN'S AIRYNOTIONS
PISGAH
A LION IN THEWAY
AS TREES WALKING
THEBLACKDEATH
AN OLD-WORLD SCRUPLE
FORHISCOUNTRY'SGOOD
LEROI EST MORT
THERIDINGOFTHERED HORSE
THREEANDAFRICA
OUR LADYOFTHELAKE
EPILOGUE
PROLOGUE
[AFRICA AND HER SISTERS.]
Some fifteen years now I have been her guest, For all this land's hers, tho' she does not reign. She's but a ward, at what late age she'll gain Her freedom and her kingdom, it were best To risk no surmise rash. E'en now she's drest Sometimes in skins. Give her ground-nuts and grain, Cattle and thatch'd hut, then she'll not complain, She's happier-hearted than her Sisters blest.
Her Sisters blest! Of them what shall I say? I like them better when they keep away, And toil in their own lands, not loll in hers. They use her ill. She's not so old as they. She drudges for them. But her youth confers A charm on her they've lost these many years.