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easily if put in at the commencement of the 

 rainy season. 



One day, when I was searching for suitable 

 trees, I noticed my boy chopping half-way 

 through the stem of a young banyan - tree 

 growing out of a cavity in another tree, the 

 seed probably having been dropped there by 

 a bird. On asking the reason for this, he 

 told me that rootlets would spring from the 

 severed part, and that then he would fetch 

 it home and plant it ; which I found to be 

 correct. . 



I had great trouble to make him dig the 

 trench for the green fence in a straight line. 

 It seemed impossible for him to do so, even 

 though I had stretched a string to mark the 

 line ; it ivould go in serpentine form, like all 

 Kafir paths, which are never by any chance 

 straight. I believe that Kafirs are too lazy 

 to stoop and remove little bushes or stumps 

 of grass when a new path is wanted, preferring 

 to go round them. The next-comer follows 

 the first slightly indicated path, and so by 



