leg--Bad.
Sloot--A dry watercourse.
Spook--To haunt, a ghost.
Stamp-block--A wooden block, hollowed out, in which mealies are placed to
be pounded before being cooked.
Stoep--Porch.
Tant or Tante--Aunt.
Upsitting--In Boer courtship the man and girl are supposed to sit up
together the whole night.
Veld--Open country.
Velschoen--Shoes of undressed leather.
Vrijer--Available man.

Contents.

Part I.

Chapter 1.I. Shadows From Child Life.

Chapter 1.II. Plans and Bushman Paintings.

Chapter 1.III. I Was A Stranger, and Ye Took Me In.

Chapter 1.IV. Blessed is He That Believeth.

Chapter 1.V. Sunday Services.

Chapter 1.VI. Bonaparte Blenkins Makes His Nest.

Chapter 1.VII. He Sets His Trap.

Chapter 1.VIII. He Catches the Old Bird.

Chapter 1.IX. He Sees A Ghost.

Chapter 1.X. He Shows His Teeth.

Chapter 1.XI. He Snaps.

Chapter 1.XII. He Bites.

Chapter 1.XIII. He Makes Love.

Part II.

Chapter 2.I. Times and Seasons.

Chapter 2.II. Waldo's Stranger.

Chapter 2.III. Gregory Rose Finds His Affinity.

Chapter 2.IV. Lyndall.

Chapter 2.V. Tant Sannie Holds An Upsitting, and Gregory Writes A Letter.

Chapter 2.VI. A Boer-wedding.

Chapter 2.VII. Waldo Goes Out to Taste Life, and Em Stays At Home and
Tastes It.

Chapter 2.VIII. The Kopje.

Chapter 2.IX. Lyndall's Stranger.

Chapter 2.X. Gregory Rose Has An Idea.

Chapter 2.XI. An Unfinished Letter.

Chapter 2.XII. Gregory's Womanhood.

Chapter 2.XIII. Dreams.

Chapter 2.XIV. Waldo Goes Out to Sit in the Sunshine.

THE STORY OF AN AFRICAN FARM

Part I.

Chapter 1.I. Shadows From Child-Life.

The Watch.

The full African moon poured down its light from the blue sky into the
wide, lonely plain. The dry, sandy earth, with its coating of stunted
karoo bushes a few inches high, the low hills that skirted the plain,
the milk-bushes with their long finger-like leaves, all were touched by
a weird and an almost oppressive beauty as they lay in the white light.

In one spot only was the solemn monotony of the plain broken. Near the
centre a small solitary kopje rose. Alone it lay there, a heap of round
ironstones piled one upon another, as over some giant's grave. Here and
there a few tufts of grass or small succulent pla