. Red, yellow and black : tales of Indians, Chinese and Africans . help now and 165 RED, YELLOW, AXD BLACK then of other missionaries, toiled patientlyat the hardest kind of labor. They wentto the forests, chopped down trees, andout of logs which they themselves sawed,they built houses and made their ownfurniture. The black men from the vil-lages of mud huts would pass by and stareat the white toilers. It is a disgrace howthose Engeleje do the work of slaves,they said in disgust, and it was manymonths before anv of them could be hired c/ to help. In time, however, all this was blac
. Red, yellow and black : tales of Indians, Chinese and Africans . help now and 165 RED, YELLOW, AXD BLACK then of other missionaries, toiled patientlyat the hardest kind of labor. They wentto the forests, chopped down trees, andout of logs which they themselves sawed,they built houses and made their ownfurniture. The black men from the vil-lages of mud huts would pass by and stareat the white toilers. It is a disgrace howthose Engeleje do the work of slaves,they said in disgust, and it was manymonths before anv of them could be hired c/ to help. In time, however, all this was black men looked up from their dirtymud huts, and on the little hill where theEngeleje had settled they saw a largewhite-walled house with a red-tiled roofhigher than any they had ever seen. TheIngeleje have built one house on top ofanother, they said. Boys began to say totheir fathers, Let us go and live on thehill with the white men that we too maylearn to make wonders with our hands. So Herbert Withey began a boys manualtraining school. With the white man to 166. A JACK-OF-ALL-TRADES teach them these black boys built a homefor themselves. They went with him forweeks at a time to the forests to cut andsaw lumber. They built a schoolhouse, aprinting shop, and a pretty white put up several bungalows for thewhite men to live in, and they built a neatgreen picket fence about the front yard. They planted trees, and in spite ofthe white ants many of these trees grew tobear fruit, and year after year broughtgood yields of oranges, limes, guavas,mangoes, and custard apples. Bananatrees and palms also dotted the yard, anda large mungenge spread its welcomeshade over the grass. They planted someof Gods magic seeds, and ere long therewas a beautiful garden filled with manygood things for the table. Blue-and-whitemorning glory blossoms covered the rougherfences with their daintiness, and greenvines wound about the pillars of the longporch of the two-storied house, and climbedover
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