es! Bathe, fool, and your eyes will be
opened!'

"That settled it. I'd got an argyment fer 'im now.

"'Not me,' I says, putting my shirt on agin. 'No beer; no baccy; no
wimmen but a lot o' shameless huzzies a-hiding and a-waiting to watch a
feller bathe! Not me. I go back besides, I 'ad a bath on'y a few days
ago.'

"Well, 'e was that wild I thought 'e'd chuck me in, but I 'umored and
coaxed 'im for I had to get 'im to take me down again; and at last 'e
did. How he did it I don't know, for when he took me up, like a kid, I
shut me eyes, and never opened 'em agin till he put me down at the foot
of the waterfall.

"'Good-bye, fool,' he said; 'some day you'll be sorry!'

"Well, we never seen 'im agin, and when I told the prospectors wot I'd
seen, they told me to put more water in my grog. And at last the whole
outfit went back and reported the perfesser lost or dead.

"But I knows better: he's up there yet! Look! see that smoke on the
top? Well, who's a-goin' to make a fire on Erongo if it ain't 'im? You
don't know heverythink, if yer thinks yer does."

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