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Title: Dream Life and Real Life

Author: Olive Schreiner

Posting Date: August 16, 2008 [EBook #1458]
Release Date: September, 1998

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DREAM LIFE AND REAL LIFE

A Little African Story

by Olive Schreiner

Author of "The Story of an African Farm" and "Dreams"

Dedication.

To My Brother Fred,

For whose little school magazine the first of these tiny stories--one of
the first I ever made--was written out many long years ago.

O.S.

New College, Eastbourne, Sept. 29, 1893.

Contents.

I. Dream Life and Real Life; a Little African Story.

II. The Woman's Rose.

III. "The Policy in Favour of Protection--".

Kopjes--In the karoo, are hillocks of stones, that rise up singly or in
clusters, here and there; presenting sometimes the fantastic appearance
of old ruined castles or giant graves, the work of human hands.

Kraal--A sheepfold.

Krantz--A precipice.

Sluit--A deep fissure, generally dry, in which the superfluous torrents
of water are carried from the karoo plains after thunderstorms.

Stoep--A porch.

I. DREAM LIFE AND REAL LIFE; A LITTLE AFRICAN STORY.

Little Jannita sat alone beside a milk-bush. Before her and behind her
stretched the plain, covered with red sand and thorny karoo bushes; and
here and there a milk-bush, looking like a bundle of pale green rods
tied together. Not a tree was to be seen anywhere, except on the banks
of the river, and that was far away, and the sun beat on her head. Round
her fed the Angora goats she was herding; pretty things, especially the
little ones, with white silky curls that touched the ground. But Jannita
sat crying. If an angel should gather up in his cup all the tears that
have been shed, I think the bitterest would be those of children.

By and by she was so tired, and the sun was so hot, she laid her head
against the milk-bush, and dropped asleep.

She dreamed a beautiful dream. She thought that when she went back to
the farmhouse in the evenin