The Complete Oom Schalk Lourens Stories

The Complete Oom Schalk Lourens Stories
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The entire sequence of Bosman’s famous Oom Schalk Lourens stories, in one volume for the first time. Edited from authoritative sources, and accompanied by original illustrations, this gathering represents a feast of South Africa’s best-loved tales. The sixty pieces include all-time favourites like “In the Withaak’s Shade”, “Makapan’s Caves” and “Willem Prinsloo’s Peach Brandy”, the Boer War classics “Mafeking Road” and “The Rooinek”, as well as several lesser-known treasures.
“Bosman’s Oom Schalk Lourens is a literary creation without equal in South African literature. Precedents there are aplenty, to be sure . . ., but no storyteller figure looms as large in the popular imagination as Oom Schalk. His famous boast, “. . . I can tell the best stories of anybody in the Transvaal . . .” (“Mafeking Road”, 1935), has gone unchallenged for the seventy years since it was first uttered.” – Craig MacKenzie

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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Unpublished in His Lifetime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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