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Op die droë vlaktes het oom Danie na water gesoek.
On the dry plains, Uncle Danie searched for water.
Hy het dit gedoen met twee gebuigde draadstukke.
He did this with two bent pieces of wire.
Die boere het hom gelag maar tog laat kom.
The peasants laughed at him but still let him come.
In veertig jaar het hy meer as duisend putte aangewys.
In forty years he has designated more than a thousand wells.
Nege uit tien het water opgelewer.
Nine out of ten produced water.
n Geoloog het eendag kom kyk hoe hy werk.
One day a geologist came to see how he worked.
Hy kon nie verduidelik hoe dit moontlik was nie.
He couldn't explain how this was possible.
Oom Danie het gesê hy luister net na die grond.
Uncle Danie said he was just listening to the ground.