The Complete Voorkamer Stories
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Herman Charles Bosman. The Complete Voorkamer Stories
Preface
I
The Budget
A Bekkersdal Marathon
Psycho-analysis
Secret Agent
Bull-calf
Local Colour
Ghost Trouble
Oom Tobie’s Sickness
II
News Story
School Concert
Railway Deputation
White Ant
Piet Siener
Potchefstroom Willow
Sea-colonels All
III
Idle Talk
Birth Certificate
Play within a Play
Springtime in Marico
The Coffee that Tasted like Tar
Stars in their Courses
Green-eyed Monster
Casual Conversation
The Call of the Road
Lath and Plaster
Do Professors Smoke Dagga?
Art Criticism
IV
Part of a Story
Home from finishingschool
Singular Events
Young Man in Love
Dreams of Rain
Ill-informed Criticism
Toys in the Shop Window
… At this Time of Year
New-Year Glad Rags
V
Go-slow Strike
Black Magic
Laugh, Clown, Laugh
Anxious to Hear
Day of Wrath
Language of Flowers
Divinity Student
Sleepy Afternoon
Alarm Clock
Circumstantial Evidence
Literary Giants
Alcoholic Remorse
VI
The Terror of the Molopo
Border Bad Man
Kith and Kin
Rolled Gold
Home Town
Monument to a Hero
Coffin in the Loft
Detective Story
Wonder Woman of Windhoek
The Recluse
The Ugly Tale of a Pretty Widow
Eavesdropper
Failing Sight
VII
Sixes and Sevens
Mental Trouble
Man to Man
Feat of Memory
Easy Circumstances
Weather Prophet
Lost City
Mother-in-law
Five-pound Notes
Forbidden Country
At Ease on the Dung Heap
VIII
No Spoon-feeding
Bekkersdal Centenary
Dying Race
In the Old Days
Neighbourly
Marico Man
Homecoming
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Acknowledgments: This volume draws substantially on
the Anniversary Edition of Bosman’s works that Stephen Gray and I
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“In the Ohrigstad Republic,” he declared, and in his eyes there gleamed for a moment a light as from a great past, “in the Republic of Ohrigstad I had the honour to be the Minister of Finance.”
“Honour,” Jurie Steyn repeated, sarcastically, but yet not speaking loud enough for Oupa Bekker to hear. “I wonder how he lost the money in the State’s skatkis. Playing snakes and ladders, I suppose.”
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