Our quiet school days were immensely enriched
when we read Short Stories by Herman Charles
Bosman, Oom Schalk Lourens feeling inferior as
he lay in old clothes under Abjaterskop while being
sniffed by a curious old leopard
A young girl thinking it quite commonsense for a young
man to dive under the blanket every time a policeman
appears; a congregation singing Ps 119 all verses when
the pastor falls unconscious, church elders drinking
Communion wine to keep going
The anecdotes all end with a final dry remark, the irony
building on the innocuous beginning - when the pastor
wakes up he thinks the service started at night and
instructs the congregation to start singing, Ps 119
all verses, the congregation flummoxed
The effect is hilarious, intoxicated elders leading the
broken singers exhausted after eight hours of
incessant singing...
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