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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Trooper Peter Halket of Mashonaland by Olive Schreiner: do belong to it, if they're not big-wigs, and none at all for those who
don't. I tried it when I first came up here. I was with a prospector who
was hooked on to the Company somehow, but I worked on my own account for
the prospector by the day. I tell you what, it's not the men who work up
here who make the money; it's the big-wigs who get the concessions!"
Peter felt exhilarated by the presence of the stranger. That one unarmed
man had robbed him of all fear.
Seeing that the stranger did not take up the thread of conversation, he
went on after a time: "It wasn't such a bad life, though. I only wish I
was back there again. I had two huts to myself, and a couple of nigger
girls. It's better fun," said Peter, after a while, "having these black
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