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with one possessed of so much guile. The only "note" 

 wanting to complete this peaceful scene was the presence 

 of his mother, whom we found engaged in some light 

 occupation outside the door of the hut. We asked her 

 if Mr. David "Woodman" was at home, but were in- 

 formed that he was away m the town. So we intimated 

 to her that unless her son returned the two shillings 

 which he had obtained from us on false pretences by 

 seven o'clock that nio-ht, we should have him locked 

 up. " I have a warrant for his arrest at home," I 

 added, in a slightly deeper voice. The woman seemed 

 to brighten up considerably at this last piece of news, 

 and it really looked as though she would be glad to 

 have him put aside for a time, but as that was her 

 affair and not ours, we left her. Loss of dignity is 

 always one of the most trying of the lighter misfortunes 

 to bear, and our friends, to whom we showed the 

 document before referred to, were rude enough to point 

 out that the warrants for arrest were always printed on 

 blue paper, while ours was on white, consequently the 

 boy, whom we proposed threatening with the document, 

 would see at a crlance that this was not official. 

 Seven o'clock arrived, and as we were sitting down 

 to dinner, a small brown hand was inserted into the 

 room through the open window, and a two-shilling- 

 piece was placed on the window-sill ; the small brown 

 hand was then withdrawn, and the emissary of the 

 guileful one ran down the road at top speed. This 

 boy must not be taken by any means as a specimen 

 of Cape boys, he was a specially bad lot, and it was 

 unfortunate that we should have happened on him ; 

 I do not suppose anything but the threat of imprison- 



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