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ma-n.) "Orlam, you verdomde Kind, vacht un bidgte, 

 icli soil you krae." " Civilized ! you d — d child; wait 

 a bit, I'll serve you out.) " Vitfoot, you duivel I slahm 

 dar fur Vitfoot, slahm ihm, dat he barst !" (Whitefoot, 

 you devil ! flog there Whitefoot, flog him till he bursts.) 

 " Englandt, you ould ghroote-pench I Ah now ! Wo 

 ha ! Ye dat so lowe ist in die shwor plach, und dharum 

 so vees at inspanningi Vacht un bidgte, ich soil a 

 plach for you aitsuch. Ye iob da for nett so as ye will, 

 mar ich soil you arter bring, whar ich kann you mach 

 hke baikam." (England, you old big paunch! Ah 

 now ! Wo ha ! You who are so lazy in the heavy 

 place, and nevertheless so vicious at inspanning. Wait 

 a little. I shall seek ovit a place for you ! You tramp 

 there in front, exactly as you please ; but I will yoke 

 you further back, where I can reach you with facility.) 

 This is said in allusion to "England's" having lately 

 been in the habit of being yoked in the front of the 

 team ; and if it is very long, the driver can not reach 

 the leading oxen with his whip without descending 

 from the box, and, therefore, when a fore-ox becomes 

 lazy, he is yoked further back in the team, that he may 

 have the full benefit of the persuasive " fore-slock." 



While the driver's tongue is pouring (orth this flow 

 of Hottentot eloquence with amazing volubility, his 

 hands and feet are employed with equal activity ; the 

 former, in throwing the open noose of the rheim, lasso- 

 like, over the horns of each ox, and drawing it tight, 

 round them as he catches him ; the latter in kicking 

 the eyes and noses of those oxen which the jamboks 

 and shouts of the leaders behind have driven too far in 

 upon him. At this moment " Blauberg," who is an old 

 offender, and who acquired in early youth the practice 

 which he has never relinquished of bolting from the 



