Ma Plank returns to break up the fight before it really begins, and Daddy goes back to sleep, snoring loudly. Dladla and Daddy are hostile toward Xuma before starting a knife fight with each other. Ma Plank goes to bring some food for Xuma. Three men and an old woman sit inside Leah’s place, drinking beer. Leah shines a flashlight over his large body before saying he can come in for a drink and a rest. Leah says he is strange and asks where he comes from. In the impoverished area of mostly black and mixed-race residents, Xuma meets Leah and asks where he can have a drink, admitting he has no money. Tired and carrying a small bundle, Xuma walks through Malay Camp, Johannesburg, in the dark, listening to a distant clock strike three times to indicate that it is three in the morning. Narrated from a third-person omniscient perspective, Peter Abrahams’s Mine Boyopens in the protagonist Xuma’s point of view.
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