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Native Life in South Africa

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(A) Who is the Author?



After wondering for some time how best to answer this question,
we decided to reply to it by using one of several personal references
in our possession. The next puzzle was: "Which one?"
We carefully examined each, but could not strike a happy decision
until some one who entered the room happened to make use
of the familiar phrase: "The long and the short of it".
That phrase solved the difficulty for us, and we at once made up our mind
to use two of these references, namely, the shortest and the longest.
The first one is from His Royal Highness the Duke of Connaught,
and the second takes the form of a leading article in the `Pretoria News'.

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Central South African Railways,