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CHAPTER 11 MRRANSOM BOUGHT HIS FIRST GUN when he invested heavily in farms and the wildanimals almost made him run his business at a loss. He had cleared and plantedwith his family and hired hands hectares of land he rented from the village. He planted cassava, melon, corn and leafy vegetables.Theywere fast-selling items as people from all the nearby big towns came to the village

 025The road ahead is far where I’d join a boat,Hop on a cab, a train and if need be, a planeSo the essence of love in places remoteAnd near we would assess, learn and explain; See if we could separate real from fakeAnd that our thirst eventually we would slakeLike with a drink on a journey you make –A break right now nearby I must take. There’s a log where people rest at a

 025The road ahead is far where I’d join a boat,Hop on a cab, a train and need be, a planeSo the essence of love in places remoteAnd near we would assess, learn and explain; See if we could separate real from fakeAnd that our thirst eventually we would slakeLike with a drink on a journey you make –A break right now nearby I must take. There’s a log where people rest at a

 011And some say, to tell the world the timeBut my instincts tell me, to proclaimHis undying love to hen that though in grimeHe’s made to march her affections to claim That empty would be life without the chaseFor the chicks bring happiness to his face.But is it for progeny that lovers embraceSo to leave something to them that’s a trace? I’ve seen animals and

 011And some say, to tell the world the timeBut my instincts tell me, to proclaimHis undying love to hen that though in grimeHe’s made to march her affections to claim That empty would be life without the chaseFor the chicks bring happiness to his face.But is it for progeny that lovers embraceSo to leave something to them that’s a trace? I’ve seen animals and

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The sound of the dogs’ feet rushing forward without barking forced Mr Ransom out of his thoughts to appraise who had come into his compound. His mind told him it could not be any other person than the man he had just spoken with a few minutes ago with his phone. The dogs were leaping happily on the visitor.‘There’s no time I come into this compound with my neat clothes and go back the same,’

The sound of the dogs’ feet rushing forward without barking forced Mr Ransom out of his thoughts to appraise who had come into his compound. His mind told him it could not be any other person than the man he had just spoken with a few minutes ago with his phone. The dogs were leaping happily on the visitor.‘There’s no time I come into this compound with my neat clothes and go back the same,’

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CHAPTER 10 THERANSOMS HAD NEIGHBOURS around their property to the right flank and also to theleft; the path bordered them at the front but to see the border at the rear youactually walked down a footpath they constantly weeded to reach a swampy andthick bank of a brook.Toone side he had dug a fish pond near the swamp and marked a large area aroundit he would need to wall and put