Jonathan come out of the war with five inestimable blessings- his head, his wife Maria's head, and the heads of three out of four of their children. And here was Jonathan's little zinc house of no regrets built with mud blocks quite intact!
Came the day of the windfall when after five days of endless scuffles in queues and counter-queues in the sun outside the Treasury he has twenty pounds counted into his palms as ex-gratia award for the rebel money he had turned in.
“Who is knockin? He asked them , his voice parched and trembling
That night, Jonathan heard people knocking on his door.
Na tief-man and his people. Make you hopen de door.
What do you want from me? I am a poor man. Everything I had went with this war. Why do you come to me? You know people who have money.
Awright! We know say you no get plenty money. But we sef no get even anini. So derefore make you open dis window and give us one hundred pund and we go commot. Orderwise we de come for inside now.
No! No! I am coming with the money
I count it as nothing. What is egg-rasher? Did I depend on it last week? Or is it greater than other things that went with the war? I say let egg-rasher perish in the flames! Let it go where everything else has gone. Nothing puzzles God.
The next morning, Jonathan speaks to his neighbors about the robbery as they assembled to commiserate him.
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