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chose to demand as the price of Mameena's hand Moreover, he was sure,

and I shared his confidence, that in these changed circu woman and her father would look upon his suit with very

favourable eyes He had, so to speak, succeeded to the title and the

faht in the "Court of the

Assegai," and therefore there was hardly a father in Zululand ould

shut his kraal gate upon hiot, both of us, the proverb that

points out how numerous are the slips between the cup and the lip,

which, by the way, is one that has its Zulu equivalents One of theht at the moment, is: "However loud the hen cackles, the

housewife does not always get the egg"

As it chanced, although Saduko's hen was cackling very loudly just at

this ti But of that

matter I will speak in its place

I, too, looked at those cattle, wondering whether Saduko would reain, under which soed tothem at £5 apiece all round--and as oxen

were very scarce just at that time, they orth quite as er sum of money than I had ever owned

at one time in all my life Truly the paths of violence were profitable!

But would he reht probably not, since Kafirs

are not fond of parting with cattle