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Show A Zulu Dainty. Mealies are the chief food of the Kaffirs, but they rejoice at an occasional opportunity opportu-nity of feasting oil a tough "trek" ox no matter if it has died from natural causes albeit their glimmering of religious superstition super-stition forbids them the useof animal food. They loathe fish as we should loathe eating a snake; but, on tho other hand, their fancies fan-cies for certain tidbits run in a curious direction. di-rection. Ono afternoon a spruy of glittering glitter-ing green foliage is brought to mo, from whence are depending the most enormous caterpillars I have ever seen iu my life, as thick as my thumb and twice as long fat, green fellows, studded with small, sparkling spark-ling scales. The little Zulu girl from whom they had been obtained wept because "wo had taken away her food." I flatly declined to try a caterpillar or two, whereupon a native eagerly selects a couple of the finest, pinches off their tails, manipulates glove fashion the wriggling creatures one within the other, frizzles them before the Ore, aud finally daintily devours the nauseating morsel with tho lingering enjoyment of an F.uglish schoolboy eatiug a line fresh strawberry. straw-berry. Blackwood's Magazine. |