Whitethorn

Authors: Bryce Courtenay

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“So much so that she was allowed to go everywhere with me, and both Meneer Prinsloo and Frikkie Botha would boast about her to people who visited The Boys Farm. I’m not saying that she was more of a pride than the shiny-feathered, crust-eating Black Orpingtons because Tinker had never won a ribbon at an agricultural show or anything like that. But Meneer Prinsloo kept a tally of the rats she’d caught and he’d say to visitors, ‘See that little dog, so far he’s caught 120 rats.’ He never did under...stand that Tinker was a she, because you had to be a he to have done something good like that. Frikkie Botha would tell him the tally for the day and on two occasions Tinker had appeared in the after-supper news when she’d got eight rats. Not that her name was mentioned with mine. She’d all of a sudden become The Boys Farm official ratcatcher, like that was her job and everyone owned her and both times she got the eight rats she got a dining-room clap.
Frikkie Botha would refer to Tinker as ‘my little rat trap’ and brag about her prowess to everyone.MoreLess Read More Read Less