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Trooper Peter Halket of Mashonaland

by Olive Schreiner

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It was a dark night; a chill breath was coming from the east; not enough to disturb the blaze of Trooper Peter Halket's fire, yet enough to make it quiver. He sat alone beside it on the top of a kopje.

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Original publication date: 1897

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Published: 1897
Genres: Fiction and Literature, General Fiction, Historical Fiction
DDC/MDS: 823.89
LCC: PZ3 .S378

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