Ooh, I was that happy I nearly kissed her.

This is Coolie Christmas, as it is popularly called here. Natal has over sixty thousand immigrants from India, and if we can believe our ears, it would seem that a good share of them have been beating tom-toms day and night for the last two weeks.

He is concerned with his mental and spiritual growth, and so deeply interested in it is he that he is willing to spread upon the record the testimony of his memory to what can scarcely be regarded as less than donkeyish stupidity in youth.

‘Reperuse now that portion of this argument which has reference to the identification of the corpse by Beauvais.’