Half The African's Ingratitude, Although It May Look Very Bad On
Paper, Is Really Not So Very Bad; For Half The Time You Have Been
Asking Him To Be Grateful To You For Doing To, Or Giving Him Things
He Does Not Care A Row Of Pins About.
I have quite his feelings,
for example, for half the things in civilised countries I am
expected to be glad to get.
"Oh, how nice it must be to be able to
get about in cars, omnibuses and railway trains again!" Is it?
Well I don't think so, and I do not feel glad over it. Similarly,
we will take an African case of ingratitude. A white friend of mine
put himself to an awful lot of trouble to save the life of one of
his sub-traders who had had an accident, and succeeded. It had been
the custom of the man's wife to bring the trader little presents of
fowls, etc., from time to time, and some time after the accident he
met the lady and told her he had noticed a falling off in her
offerings and he thought her very ungrateful after what he had done
for her husband. She grunted and the next morning she brings in as
a present the most forlorn, skinny, one-and-a-half-feathered chicken
you ever laid eye on, and in answer to the trader's comments she
said: "Massa, fo sure them der chicken no be 'ticularly good
chicken, but fo sure dem der man no be 'ticularly good man.
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