Out of Africa: And Shadows On the Grass
““Bedâr is on his way back,” he announced. “He will be here in two or three days.”In the afternoon, a Squatter Toto from the outskirts of the farm sat and waited on the lawn, to tell me, when I came out: “There is a flight of Guinea-fowl down by the bend of the river. If you want to shoot them for Bedâr when he comes I will come out with you at sunset to show you where to find them.”To the great wanderers amongst my friends, the farm owed its charm, I believe, to the fact that it was stationary ...and remained the same whenever they came to it. They had been over vast countries and had raised and broken their tents in many places, now they were pleased to round my drive that was steadfast as the orbit of a star. They liked to be met by familiar faces, and I had the same servants all the time that I was in Africa. I had been on the farm longing to get away, and they came back to it longing for books and linen sheets and the cool atmosphere in a big shuttered room; by their campfires they had been meditating upon the joys of farm life, and as they arrived they asked me eagerly: “Have you taught your cook to make an omelette à la chasseur?—and have the gramophone records from Tetrouchka’ arrived by the last mail?”MoreLess
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