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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Trooper Peter Halket of Mashonaland by Olive Schreiner: him a drink of water. Well, I just ordered him off. I didn't think
anything more about it. But I remember now. I saw him hanging about the
camp the day after. Well, she came to me the next day and asked me for a
lot of cartridges. She'd never asked me for anything before. I asked her
what the devil a woman wanted with cartridges, and she said the old nigger
woman who helped carry in water to the garden said she couldn't stay and
help her any more unless she got some cartridges to give her son who was
going up north hunting elephants. The woman got over me to give her the
cartridges because she was going to have a kid, and she said she couldn't
do the watering without help. So I gave them her. I never put two and two
together.
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