Wild Honey

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Excerpt from Wild Honey: Stories of South AfricaT was a six-mule mail-coach that bumped and banged along the rough highroad to Bulawayo, and Vivienne Carlton anathematised the fate that condemned her to travel by it. Cordially she detested the cheerful garrulity Of certain of her fellow-passengers, quoting to herself Louis Vance's satirical mot: A pessimist is a person who has to live with Optimists. Gladly would she have slain the Optimists with whom she was so tightly packed in the hooded body of the cart - for the term coach was merely a polite fiction: the affair was neither more nor less than a two-seated Cape cart, with the hood thrown back so that the mules might find the pulling easier and the passengers be more effectively grilled.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.