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i'm very clever my boy
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the day was hot and sunny. i was lying in the front yard on my back when my mother called me inside to have something to eat. “come, my darling, and take a piece of a sandwich or two,” my mother gently called. but, i was always a bit of an uncontrollable child – or might i say, a naughty child – when i was growing up. so i pretended that i didn’t hear her. as my mother is a clever mom, she just said: “okay then. i think that you are going to have to go and buy bread. this time she
imini yayishushu nelanga. ndithe ndingqengqe efront yard ngomqolo ndabizelwa ngumama endlini ukuba mandifumane into etyiwayo. “yiza, sithandwa sam, uthathe iqhekeza lesonka okanye amabini,” umama watsho ngobubele. kodwa, ndandisoloko ndingumntwana ongalawulekiyo – okanye ndingathi, ndingumntwana okhohlakeleyo – ekukhuleni kwam. ndiye ndenza ngathi andimvanga. njengoko umama engumama okrelekrele, wasuka nje wathi: “kulungile ke. ndicinga ukuba kuzofuneka uhambe uyokuthenga isonka. ngeli xesha yena