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"Why?" I asked

"Why? Oh! if I were to tell you all my story you would understand why,

Macumazahn Well, perhaps I will one day" (Here I may state that as a

matter of fact he did, and a very wonderful tale it is, but as it has

nothing to do with this history I will not write it here) "I dare say," I answered "Chaka and Dingaan and Uana and the

others were not nice people But another question Why do you tell

that were I but to repeat it to a

talking-bird you would be sle moon would not die

before you do?"

"Oh! I should be smelt out and killed before one moon dies, should I?

Then I wonder that this has not happened during all the one Well, I tell the story to you, Macumazahn, who have had so aan, because I wish

that so

is finished Because, too, I have just been reading your spirit and see

that it is still a white spirit, and that you will not whisper it to a

'talking-bird'"

Now I leant forward and looked at him

"What is the end at which you aim, O Zikali?" I asked "You are not one

who beats the air with a stick; on whom do you wish the stick to fall at

last?"

"On who voice "Why, on