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By die plaasskool was daar net een onderwyseres.
At the farm school, there was only one teacher.
Juffrou Sanet het al agt grade in een klaskamer gehad.
Miss Sanet had already had eight grades in one classroom.
Sy het elke oggend twintig kilometer gery.
She drove twenty miles every morning.
Party kinders het te voet gekom oor die veld.
Some children came across the field on foot.
Sy het altyd n groot pot pap saamgebring.
She always brought a big pot of porridge with her.
Niemand kon leer met n leë maag nie, het sy gesê.
No one could learn on an empty stomach, she said.
Die skool het amper gesluit in die jaar van die droogte.
The school almost closed in the year of the drought.
Die ouers het toe self klasse begin aanbied.
The parents then began to offer classes themselves.