ch. xx NOTES ON LIFE OF THE AFRICAN NATIVE 195 
kitten : no school-board officer troubles his sunny 
days ; he has no perpetual nightmare of scamped 
lessons to disturb his childish slumber. His sole 
occupation, save when he is sent on an errand by his 
parents, consists of his games, into which he enters 
with all the gusto of an absolutely untrammelled 
MY TRACKER SIMBA WITH THREE INSWALA JUST SHOT. 
nature. He has also his little toy puzzles like 
civilized children, and the game which has been 
given the name of diabolo in England has been known 
to African children time out of mind. His education 
is short and terminates with his ability to count ten, 
though his imagination and mental powers are 
certainly enlarged by the tales and legends he hears 
from his elders as they sit around the fire at night. 
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