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present if she would procure me a servant ; so 

 next day she brought me her nephew " Bango," 

 a young scamp and dreadful liar, but better 

 than nothing. She then told me that I had 

 not been able to get a boy because the last 

 had spread the report that "Missisi" did not 

 pay her boys ; and I afterwards found that 

 he owed money to the Kafir in whose kraal 

 he lodged, and not wishing to pay his debt, 

 had said he could not because I had not 

 paid him. 



" Bango " didn't stop long, and I was getting 

 very tired of being so unsettled. The horse, 

 too, objected to the constant change of groom, 

 reproachfully looking round and stamping when 

 the curry-comb was used the wrong way by the 

 unskilful hand, which did sometimes happen in 

 spite of my careful teaching. 



Kafirs, by the way, like nothing better than 

 to stand idly by whilst the white man works, 

 under pretence of taking a lesson. 



I next engaged a Chobi boy, "Jonaas," but 

 he was a very bad specimen of his tribe, being 



