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"Has Masapo as many cattle as I have, whereof those which you see are

but a tithe brought as a lobola gift to the father of her who had been

promised to me as wife? Is Masapo Panda's friend? I think that I have

heard otherwise Has Masapo just conquered a countless tribe by his

courage and his wit? Is Masapo young and of high blood, or is he but an

old, low-born boar of the mountains?

"You do not answer, Uain Were it not for Macumazahn here, whom I do not desire to

mix up with my quarrels, I would bid my men take you and beat you to

death with the handles of their spears, and then go on and serve the

Boar in the sas

must wait a little while, especially as I have other matters to attend

to first Yet the day is not far off when I will attend to them also

Therefore my counsel to you, Cheat, is to e to fall upon a spear, unless you would learn how it feels to be

brayed with sticks like a green hide until none can know that you

were once a man Send now and tell my words to Masapo the Boar And to

Mameena say that soon I will come to take her with spears and not with

cattle Do you understand? Oh! I see that you do, since already you weep

with fear like a woman Then farewell to you till that day when I

return with the sticks, O Umbezi the cheat and the liar, U, Saduko stalked away