文档介绍：Dream Life and Real Life A Little African Story
Dream Life and Real Life
A Little African Story
by Olive Schreiner
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Dream Life and Real Life A Little African Story
Author of "The Story of an African Farm" and "Dreams"
Dedication.
To My Brother Fred,
For whose little school magazine the first of these tiny stories--
one of the first I ever made--was written out many long years ago.
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New College, Eastbourne, Sept. 29, 1893.

Kopjes - In the karoo, are hillocks of stones, that rise up singly or in
clusters, here and there; presenting sometimes the fantastic appearance of
old ruined castles or giant graves, the work of human hands. Kraal - A
sheepfold. Krantz - A precipice. Sluit - A deep fissure, generally dry, in
which the superfluous torrents of water are carried from the karoo plains
after thunderstorms. Stoep - A porch.
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Dream Life and Real Life A Little African Story
I. DREAM LIFE AND REAL
LIFE; A LITTLE AFRICAN STORY.
Little Jannita sat alone beside a milk-bush. Before her and behind
her stretched the plain, covered with red sand and thorny karoo bushes;
and here and there a milk-bush, looking like a bundle of pale green rods
tied together. Not a tree was to be seen anywhere, except on the banks of
the river, and that was far away, and the sun beat on her head. Round her
fed the Angora goats she was herding; pretty things, especially the little
ones, with white silky curls that touched the ground. But Jannita sat
crying. If an angel should gather up in his cup all the tears that have
been shed, I think the bitterest would be those of children.
By and by she was so tired, and the sun was so hot, she laid her head
against the milk-bush, and dropped asleep.
She dreamed a beautiful dream. She thought that when she went
back to the farmhouse in the evening, the walls were covered with vines
and roses, and the kraals were not made of red stone, but of lilac trees full
of blossom. And the fat old Boer smiled at