. Under the crescent, and among the kraals; a study of Methodism in Africa. the hut, reads exactly alike — work, work,work. There are games, a few, they tell us, playedby these children of the bush. Experts as theyare in imitating bird notes and animal sounds,they use them to account in their sports. OurMiss Edith Bell tells us of one: I have frequently observed a group ofchildren hide in the grass or bush and imitatethe chatter of monkeys so perfectly that passers-by mistake them for a troupe of these persistentchatterers. At other times bird calls are givenso that answers are received from a
. Under the crescent, and among the kraals; a study of Methodism in Africa. the hut, reads exactly alike — work, work,work. There are games, a few, they tell us, playedby these children of the bush. Experts as theyare in imitating bird notes and animal sounds,they use them to account in their sports. OurMiss Edith Bell tells us of one: I have frequently observed a group ofchildren hide in the grass or bush and imitatethe chatter of monkeys so perfectly that passers-by mistake them for a troupe of these persistentchatterers. At other times bird calls are givenso that answers are received from a real birdwhich mistakes the note for that of its mate. A favorite pastime for evening is to assembleafter the meal for animal games. Contests areheld and the best imitators are highly first observation of this sport was on a darkI* evening. A girl of possibly ten years, who hadhidden in the gloom back from the fires glow,uttered a series of dull barks which usuallyindicate the proximity of a troop of fright I turned my head, expecting to see h. AND AMONG THE KRAALS lo7 one very near. On doing so I was amazed andterrified to see an animal-like creature boundon all fours from the darkness, and hop aboutamong the girls seated there. The whites of therolling eyes and the prominent teeth gleamedin the firelight as the hideous-looking beastjumped around, frightening us all. The picturewas so weird, the imitation so perfect, thatquite a few moments elapsed before I could beconvinced the performer was Matiwoma, andnot a real baboon. A CONTRAST IN SCHOOLS There is the semblance of a school, to be sure,somewhere out in the bush. In one of these aboy of tender years is hideously taught to be aman. In a similar one little girls are inductedinto a knowledge of the things — and evilenough they are — which will some day fallwithin the sphere of womanhood. Deeplyhidden in some forest place is the bush and dark are the mysteries which arethere expounde
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