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Ch. 14: The Workers in the Mines

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70 THE DIAMOND MINES OF SOUTH AFRICA
There are native barbers and hair-dressers, also, of whom the chief is " Sandy," a Cape boy, who struts about on Sunday in a khaki jacket with the airs of a tonsorial artist on the crest of fashion, and is reputed to make more on his holiday with his clippers than he can earn in a week with the drill below ground. He has not as much range for his art as a French barber, for most of his patrons want their hair cut off close to the scalp ; but
he is justifiably vain of the speed with which he lops off one bushy head of hair, and makes room for the next to fall.
Pedlers of all sorts, dealing in cakes, tobacco, and ginger beer, have their stalls in the moving throng, especially on Sundays and other holidays, and here and there are to be seen workers in Kafir adornments, principally in armlets or bangles, and bands for the legs. These are usually made of fine copper and brass wire rolled upon rings of horse hair. The rings are about one eighth of an inch in cross section and from four to five inches
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