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Then Nandie sprang up and said: "Nay, Father, listen not to him who is mad, and therefore holy[]

What he has done, he has done, who, as he has said, was but a tool in

another's hand As for our babe, I knoell that he would have died

sooner than harm it, for he loved it much, and when it was taken away,

for three whole days and nights he wept and would touch no food Give

this poor man to o hence to soet"

[--The Zulus suppose that insane people are inspired

--AQ] "Be silent, daughter," said the King; "and you, O Zikali, the Nyanga, be

silent also"

They obeyed, and, after thinking awhile, Panda made a motion with his

hand, whereon the two councillors lifted the kaross from off Mameena,

who looked about her cala part in a great gaame of life and death

Now, have you heard the tale of Zikali the Little and Wise, and the

words of Saduko, as once your husband, or ; , and I would not waste your time"

"Then what have you to say, wo of her shoulders, "except that I

have lost in this game You will not believe me, but if you had left me

alone I should have told you so, who did not wish to see that poor fool,