The Basuto proved himself more than a matcyh for the white man in the language of comparison when in the 'seventies the Cape Government was attempting the costly and,futile policy of disarming him- Sir "Gordon Sprigg compared arms in the hands of the natives to a knife in the possession of a child. “That is a very good Word.” replied the chief. George Moshesh. "A child as long as he is small cries for the knife, because he does not know that it will out him. but when the father takes it out of his hand he takes it in a very gentle manner, for fear of cutting him; and I have confidence that the Government will not roughly draw the knife away, or draw another knife from the sheath at his side and stab the child for clinging to the knife. Would that be tha act of a father?” For Coughs and Colds, never fails. Is 6d. 'Wboda'- Great Peppermint Cure.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 8681, 14 March 1914, Page 13
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