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Herman Charles Bosman. The Complete Oom Schalk Lourens Stories
Preface
The Touleier Years
Makapan’s Caves
The Rooinek
Francina Malherbe
The Ramoutsa Road
The Gramophone
Karel Flysman
London Stories
Veld Maiden
Yellow Moepels
The Love Potion
In the Withaak’s Shade
The Widow
Willem Prinsloo’s Peach Brandy
Ox-wagons on Trek
The Music Maker
Drieka and the Moon
Mafeking Road
Marico Scandal
Bechuana Interlude
Visitors to Platrand
Starlight on the Veld
Marico Moon
Splendours from Ramoutsa
Bushveld Romance
Dream by the Bluegums
On to Freedom
Matha and the SnakeZ
Back Home
Concertinas and Confetti
The Story of Hester van Wyk
The Wind in the Tree
Camp-fires at Nagmaal
The Prophet
Mampoer
Seed-time and Harvest
The Trek and On Parade Years
Dopper and Papist
Cometh Comet
Great-uncle Joris
Treasure Trove
Unto Dust
Graven Image
The Picture of Gysbert Jonker
The Homecoming
Susannah and the Play-actor
Peaches Ripening in the Sun
Last Stories
Romaunt of the Smuggler’s Daughter
The Ferreira Millions
Sold Down the River
The Lover Who Came Back
When the Heart is Eager
The Brothers
Oom Piet’s Party
Funeral Earth
The Missionary
The Traitor’s Wife
Unpublished in His Lifetime
The Red Coat
The Question
The Old Potchefstroom Gaol
The Ghost at the Drift
Bush Telegraph
Tryst by the Vaal
The Selon’s Rose
Bosman’s Illustrators
Notes on the Stories. 1. The Touleier Years (1930–31)
2. London Stories – The South African Opinion (1934–37)
3. Back Home – The South African Opinion (new series) (1944–46)
4. The Trek and On Parade Years (1948–51)
5. Last Stories (1948–51)
6. Unpublished in His Lifetime
Sources of the texts and illustrations
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Herman Charles Bosman
The Complete
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“Of course he will come back,” I answered him. But this time I knew that I lied. For as I came through the mouth of the cave I kicked against the kaffir I had shot there. The body sagged over to one side and I saw the face.
Then, the year after the drought, the miltsiek broke out. The miltsiek seemed to be in the grass of the veld, and in the water of the dams, and even in the air the cattle breathed. All over the place I would find cows and oxen lying dead. We all became very discouraged. Nearly all of us in that part of the Marico had started farming again on what the Government had given us. Now that the stock died we had nothing. First the drought had put us back to where we were when we started. Now with the miltsiek we couldn’t hope to do anything. We couldn’t even sow mealies, because, at the rate at which the cattle were dying, in a short while we would have no oxen left to pull the plough. People talked of selling what they had and going to look for work on the gold mines. We sent a petition to the Government, but that did no good.
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