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Kaffirs are Lively choose

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[SA] O. Walker Kaffirs are Lively 22: Half a dozen reasons can be given why tribal Natives become ‘join-boys’, as recruited miners are called.
at join-boy, n.
[SA] O. Walker Kaffirs are Lively 183: I visited dozens of ‘bush’ mission schools out in the back-blocks. Some were held under trees.
at bush, adj.1
[SA] O. Walker Kaffirs are Lively 102: ‘Jim Fish’! How many times have I heard the old, old story about the way ‘Jim’ works hard for the European farmer, but when he goes home to his kraal he won’t work for himself.
at Jim, n.1
[SA] O. Walker Kaffirs are Lively 27: Not all of them are strictly black, round-headed and answering to the generic names of ‘John’, ‘Mary’, ‘Jim’ or ‘Annie’.
at John, n.
[SA] O. Walker Kaffirs are Lively 69: Natives are mostly referred to as [...] ‘jong’ – youngster.
at jong, n.1
[SA] O. Walker Kaffirs are Lively 97: The old frontier Boers [...] consolidated their encroachments in Kaffraria, or ‘Kaffirland’, by seizing water-holes. [Ibid.] 189: He returned as a qualified preacher to ‘Kaffirland’.
at Kaffirland (n.) under kaffir, n.
[SA] O. Walker Kaffirs are Lively 27: The black people are ‘Natives’, the old label ‘Kaffir’ having been discarded. [...] It is, in fact an adjective of contempt in ordinary speech of the South African when he speaks of a ‘Kaffir’ trick or ‘Kaffir’ work.
at kaffir, adj.
[SA] O. Walker Kaffirs are Lively 78: ‘Alle magtig!’ said the official.
at magtig!, excl.
[SA] O. Walker Kaffirs are Lively 77: Wilson had a friendly paternal attitude towards the Native. ‘Treat Jim all right, and he’s all right with you. [...] It’s the towns that muck the munt up.’.
at munt, n.
[SA] O. Walker Kaffirs are Lively 156: For me to have made the comment would have stamped me instantly as a rooinek.
at rooinek, n.
[SA] O. Walker Kaffirs are Lively 56: The third was a cattle speculator who was regarded by officials as a very ‘slim’ – cunning – bird.
at slim, adj.
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