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The old girl died. The other Griqua boy we had dug the grave, with 
a crypt in the wall towards the sunset, in which the remains were laid. 
I read the burial service. When the grave was filled we withdrew. 
Old Gert felt crushed and restless ; eventually he took a hatchet and 
chopped a lot of thorny shrubs and covered the grave with them. He 
believes the grave to be haunted and never goes to it. 
He married a Bechuana girl later and lived with her for some months, 
then returned to us half-starved ; she had spent all his stock — such a nice 
little flock — and he returned a sadder, if not a wiser man. 
Old Gert is servile in disposition, fluctuates between grateful and 
revengeful moods in his old age ; and thus a chequered career is slowly 
drawing to a conclusion. 
