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Rh On the stoep they spent the gloaming,

Watched the shadows on the veldt,

Or she led her cripple roaming

To the eucalyptus belt.

He would lie and play with Jacko,

The baboon from Bushman's Kraal,

Smoked Magaliesberg tobacco

While she lisped to him in Taal.

Till he felt that he had rather

He had died amid the slaughter,

If the harshness of the father

Were not softened in the daughter.

So he asked an English question,

And she answered him in Dutch,

But her smile was a suggestion,

And he treated it as such.