The Story of an African Farm
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Moonlight makes the Karoo farm look like somewhere else, which is why you are still awake. You play Lyndall, a child here with Em, with Otto the overseer and his son Waldo, who takes arithmetic into the veld with the sheep. Waldo comes back at evening under red dust, with swollen eyes and an empty food bag: he built an altar beyond the kopje and waited for a fire that never came. By supper a stranger wants lodging.
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- Shadows from Child LifeKaroo Farm