All One Horse by Breyten Breytenbach

Author:Breyten Breytenbach
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Steerforth Press
Published: 2011-03-22T00:00:00+00:00

Now I want to tell you about Xmas. It is night and the streets are dark as they always are on Xmas night. I find the young couple embracing with locked breaths on the pavement outside the building where the hysterical lodger tried to pick up a drunken hobo. When they see me they must take me for a snooper, a voyeur or a life-sucker. F.A. scurries off into the room where the kitten promptly starts blubbering like a scalded cat. The boy furtively takes to his heels, rounds the corner, out of sight, never to return. Squatters run fast.

Now I wish to tell you this story which you already know, because it has been told on many a Xmas night. A poor couple go window-shopping during the festive season. People carrying plucked geese and Brahms recordings pass them by. The only possession of value he has is an old pocket-watch left to him by his grandfather. Her only wealth is the lovely long hair inherited from her grandmother. They look and look again at the riches in the jeweller’s window. For Xmas night each carefully prepares a surprise gift for the other. He has sold his watch to buy her a comb for her hair, she has sold her hair to buy him a chain for his watch.

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