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is finished, and when the boy produces thirty 

 tickets he gets his pay. 



Kafirs think nothing of taking a holiday for a 

 day or two, without permission of course, to go 

 to feasts, weddings, &c., or because they are too 

 drunk to appear, so the ticket system does away 

 with the trouble of noting down these absences. 



The small boys and girls soon learn to wait 

 at table very nicely, but the girls will not keep 

 in service when they are beginning to grow to 

 womanhood they think it derogatory to their 

 dignity, and prefer the regular woman's work of 

 tilling the fields, &c. The Kafirs also soon learn 

 to cook pretty fairly ; but it is necessary to show 

 them once or twice how you like a dish pre- 

 pared, or you may have very unpleasant sur- 

 prises when the dinner or breakfast makes its 

 appearance. They will gravely assure you they 

 know how to cook different things, when in reality 

 they are totally ignorant, saying, " Ipsone " 

 (" All right"), with an upward toss of the head, 

 to everything you tell them. 



I had a woman cook once for a month, who 



