CONTENTS. vu 



CHAPTER VIII. 



MEERKATS. PAGB 



Meerkats plentiful in the Karroo — Their appearance — Intelligence — 

 Fearlessness — Friendship for dogs — A meerkat in England — 

 Meerkat an inveterate thief — An owl in Tangier — Taming full- 

 grown meerkat — Tiny twins— A sad accident — Different char- 

 acters of meerkats — The turkey-herd — Bob and the meerkat — 

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CHAPTER IX. 



BOBBY. 



Bobby's babyhood — Insatiable appetite — Variety of noises made by 



Bobby — His tameness — Narrow escape from drowning — A 



warlike head-gear — Bobby the worse for drink — His love of 



\^ mischief -He disarms his master — Meerkat persecuted by 



C~ Bobby — Bobby takes to dishonest ways — He becomes a prisoner 



— His clever tricks— Death of Bobby ... ... ... ... 170 



C H A P T E R X. 



OUR SERVANTS. 



A letrospective vision — Phillis in her domain — Her destructiveness 

 — Her ideas on personal adornment — The woes of a mistress — 

 Eye-service —Abrupt departure of Phillis — Left in the lurch- 

 Nancy and her successors — Cure of sham sickness — The thief's 

 dose — Our ostrich-herd — A bride purchased with cows — 

 English and natives at the Cape— Character of Zulus and 

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CHAPTER XI. 



HOW WE FARED. 



\Angora goats —Difficulty of keeping meat — The plague of flies — 

 Rations— Our store — Barter — Fowls — Chasing a dinner — 

 Fowls difficult to rear — Secretary birds as guardians of the 

 poultry-yard — ^Jacob in the Karroo — He comes down in the 

 world — He dies — Antelopes — A springbok hunt — I'he Queen's 

 birthday in the Karroo — Colonial dances — Our klipspringer — 

 Superstition about hares — Game birds — Paauw — Knorhaan — 

 Namaqua partridges — Porcupines — A short-lived pet — Indian 

 corn — Stamped mealies — Whole-meal bread— Plant used for 

 making bread rise — Substitutes for butter — Priembesjes — A 

 useful tree — Wild honey — The honey-bird — Enemies of bees 

 — Moth in bees' nests — Good coffee — Sour milk ... ... 203 



