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Through Veld and Forest, by Harry Collingwood
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Title: Through Veld and Forest An African Story
Author: Harry Collingwood
Illustrator: Arch. Webb
Release Date: February 13, 2008 [EBook #24602]
Language: English
Character set encoding: ASCII
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Through Veld and Forest
CHAPTER ONE.
VAGUE HINTS OF POSSIBLE TROUBLE.
The blazing midsummer sun of South Africa had sunk to within a hand's breadth of the ridge of the southern spur of the Tandjes Berg, softly outlined in blue some forty miles distant on the western horizon, when I, Edward Laurence, having taken a long afternoon ride round the farm to assure myself that the sheep were being properly looked after, arrived within a mile of my home--the long, white, one-storey thatched house picturesquely perched yonder on a mound which formed one of the southern spurs of the Great Winter Berg.
The house--which, together with the farm of two thousand five hundred and sixty acres, was known as Bella Vista--was the property of my father, Henry Laurence, ex-colonel of the --th King's Own Regiment of Dragoon Guards; and he had pu