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When Mr Ransom waited till the chickens were returning home and Merit was not seen, he made a special cane from the branch of a guava tree and even though his lower back still badly hurt, he was ready to show her he was not happy with the way she was flying her kite.When Merit returned, Mr Ransom shouted from the veranda at her right at the entry into the compound to stop, got up and walked

 CHAPTER 15 THE GOATS’ BLEATS graduallybecame weaker as the hourswent by and there was not one Ransom in sight who could help sort out theirproblems. Grace herself had become weak from hunger and at a point when herkids had tried to feed, she had unconsciously butted them aside.‘Butma you said Mr Ransom is a bad man?’ the irascible young he-goat had said.‘Doyou still ask? Can’t

 CHAPTER 15 THE GOATS’ BLEATS graduallybecame weaker as the hourswent by and there was not one Ransom in sight who could help sort out theirproblems. Grace herself had become weak from hunger and at a point when herkids had tried to feed, she had unconsciously butted them aside.‘Butma you said Mr Ransom is a bad man?’ the irascible young he-goat had said.‘Doyou still ask?

Grace was counting, not seconds but minutes and listening. ‘Nine minutes to go,’ she said and heard the visiting teenage girl mention that she was going to the farm. At the same time, there were voices outside yelling at her.‘Tell your sisters to wait. I’d come too,’ Merit told her friend.The visitor yelled the message across to her sisters and they yelled back something that sounded like

CHAPTER 14 THEPIVOT OF THE RANSOMS’ HOUSEHOLD was down and regular activities got drawn to astandstill.Someonelet out the chickens but forgot about the goats and Grace waited and waited,staring at the door to see who would open it to receive her headbutt.Shelooked and listened hard but it seemed the normal activities in the Ransoms’ homewere drastically changing for that day. Did

CHAPTER 14 THEPIVOT OF THE RANSOMS’ HOUSEHOLD was down and regular activities got drawn to astandstill.Someonelet out the chickens but forgot about the goats and Grace waited and waited,staring at the door to see who would open it to receive her headbutt.Shelooked and listened hard but it seemed the normal activities in the Ransoms’home were drastically changing for that day.

CHAPTER 13 MR RANSOM STOLE OUT OF HIS HOUSE and thenslipped down the path to the area of his fish pond where he buried his shotgun.He had taken his shirt off to veil the light of his torch but waited andlistened for some minutes, put it on, kept it close to the ground andcrawled till he reached where the gun was buried. He put the torch off and dugthe earth with his bare hands till

 ‘But ma, where we are, we’re free,’ said the young billy goat.‘If we’re free, why do I always have a rope around my neck in the pen?’‘But we don’t have,’ the young nanny goat quickly noted.‘And the reason for this tale of mine is so you’d not have it at all. Mr Ransom early tomorrow would put the ropes on your necks,’ Grace lied, just as some humans before had done to spark a revolution, ‘

CHAPTER 12 EVENINGARRIVED AND THE ROOSTERS all over crowed to say goodbye to a day already spentand welcome the unpredictability sneaking in with the gloom. As Mr Ransomquietly untied the ends of the ropes and the goats rushed into the stalls withthe dogs hanging around and monitoring them, Grace resolved with what she wouldimplant into her kids’ minds that night, the tale of goats by

CHAPTER 12 EVENINGARRIVED AND THE ROOSTERS all over crowed to say goodbye to a day already spentand welcome the unpredictability sneaking in with the gloom. As Mr Ransomquietly untied the ends of the ropes and the goats rushed into the stalls withthe dogs hanging around and monitoring them, Grace resolved with what she wouldimplant into her kids’ minds that night, the tale of goats