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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=399081" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Ort Jan van Hunks</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Many years back an old pirate<br>Ort Jan van Hunks lived in Cape Town<br>and he had gathered enough loot<br>to live an honest life.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Just above the company gardens<br>he bought some land<br>and he thought that trustful slaves<br>would do the work for him<br>while he would watch his vineyards grow<br>and it would be possible<br>to give attention to his weaknesses.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The loneliness caught up with van Hunks<br>and he got himself a wife<br>but in Cape Town<br>at that time the choices was slim<br>and he was married to a huge woman<br>that was so broad<br>that she could not enter a door<br>without turning sideways<br>but he thought that in the cold winter evenings<br>she would keep him warm.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The trouble with his wife<br>was that she was a strict person<br>who drove their slave girls<br>to polish everything, <br>she had driven him away<br>from his own fireplace<br>with a hard hitting elbow, <br>as she was scared <br>that the ash from his pipe<br>would fall on the beautiful yellow-wood floor.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">At the trees high up against the saddle<br>where Devil's peak joins Table Mountain, <br>van Hunks found a big rock<br>that was flat like a settee<br>and there nobody would bother him<br>as the Citizens thought<br>that only a lunatic<br>would climb the peaks of Table Mountain.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">With a barrel of rum and a heap of tobacco<br>that he had carried along secretary <br>van Hunks was dreaming<br>with his pipe in his mouth<br>while he saw the shadow<br>of the mountain <br>creeping blue over the meadow<br>during the late afternoon.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The silence and rest, with the sliver coloured trees, <br>the small white houses stretched out beneath him, <br>the castle holding its ground, <br>was like balm to his soul<br>and his gaze went to the harbour<br>with the huge sailing ships<br>and the deep blue ocean.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">On a bright summer day<br>when he was drawing pleasing on his pipe<br>and was taking one shot of rum after the next<br>an irritating sharp voice said: <br>"Good morning old chap, <br>what a lovely day we have got."</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Van Hunks turned his head<br>and saw a small fat man<br>dressed in a black frock-coat<br>with a black hat on his head<br>and an expensive walking-stick in his hand.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Van Hunks growled<br>"Who the hell are you<br>and what are you doing here? "</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The man smiled and said: <br>Some people call me Nick, <br>but I have many other names<br>and at times I come up to catch some fresh air<br>and to smoke my pipe"</div><div style="margin:10px 0">and he removed his hat from head<br>while he bowed over<br>and van Hunks<br>saw two small red horns<br>while Nick gestured into the direction<br>of Devil's peak.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">"I know that you are van Hunks<br>and I have your old companion<br>captain Roedolf van Boons<br>and all of his men with me, "<br>which hit van Hunks hard<br>as they were all dead.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">"You have got to meet my wife, <br>she is a hell of a thing, " van Hunks said<br>while he watched<br>the small fat man carefully.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">"I have heard about her, "<br>Nick said with laughter<br>and he took out a good iron pipe<br>while van Hunks gestured towards the tobacco.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Van Hunks removed a pair of dice from his pocket<br>of which the weight was so<br>that he always was winning and he asked: <br>"Do you want to play? "</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> "It will be great, " said the small man<br>"let us see your money" <br>while he placed a bag of gold on the rock.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Out of his pockets van Hunks took <br>a hodgepodge of golden franks, golden guilders, <br>golden sovereigns and golden rings.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> "I did not expect us to play<br>and do not have a lot of money with me<br>but we will see who wins.<br>We will really see, " van Hunks said<br>while he stroked his pair of dice.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">"Great stuff, <br>I can always give you credit on your soul, "<br>the devil answered smiling.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Just when the game started Satan said: <br>"Here's Peter as well, "<br>and van Hunks looked up astounded.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">"I have come to warn you, " Peter said<br>and van Hunks became angry and replied: <br>"Leave me alone.<br>I get enough warnings at home."</div><div style="margin:10px 0">"Peter, you will get nowhere with him.<br>Do you also want to play? "<br>The Small man asked.<br>"It will be really nice, " Peter answered<br>while he gazed upwards.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Van Hunks took some more tobacco out<br>and another pipe<br>before he did shake the dices in his hand<br>and threw them.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">They smoked and played<br>and played and smoked and cleaned their pipes<br>and started to smoke again<br>while the game went on<br>and van Hunks smiled at himself.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">With time the air got thicker<br>and still thicker<br>while they were clouding the mountain <br>with so much smoke<br>that the rock-rabbits, lizards<br>and snakes fled from their holes.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Suddenly it became dark<br>from all of the smoke<br>until Peter could not see the dice clearly<br>and he started to slap his wings slowly<br>to blow the smoke away</div><div style="margin:10px 0">and the more they did play, <br>the more they did smoke<br>and the harder Peter was hitting his wings<br>until a strong breeze was blowing.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Beneath the mountain the citizens<br>decided to go home<br>to get in their hot beds<br>with their wives<br>as it was the strongest South Easter <br>that had blown in many years</div><div style="margin:10px 0">and down in the bay<br>the colour of the water changed<br>from blue to green and later grey<br>and the waves was getting bigger<br>causing the ships to throw out some more anchors<br>and the captains to return from the bars<br>back to their heaving ships.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Up high on the saddle of the mountain<br>the game went on<br>and the more they played, <br>the more they did smoke<br>while the cloud got bigger<br>and kept growing.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Later van Hunks rose tiredly<br>and stretched out while he said: <br>"Friends, I have got all of your money<br>and a halo and a tail as surety, "<br>while both Nick and Peter<br>looked downhearted back at him.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">"The old woman is waiting<br>and I will have to go<br>or she will knock me around out of anger, "<br>van Hunks said <br>before he took the twisting road down the mountain.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> "It looks as if he has cheated us<br>but the games was really great, "<br>Peter said to Nick.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> "Hey there van Hunks, " the devil called. <br>"We want to play again at another time, <br>as we are now friends? "</div><div style="margin:10px 0">"Hallo, " van Hunks called back<br>certain that they want to find out<br>how he had won them</div><div style="margin:10px 0">but van Hunks agreed to play again<br>in the summer on a sunny day<br>as he had trouble with rheumatism.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">On the next occasion<br>each one bragged<br>that he could smoke <br>much more than the others<br>and the winner<br>would receive a ship full of gold<br>and after days of smoking<br>the old pirate<br>won both the devil and Peter</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Thunder suddenly erupted from Devil's peak<br>hitting just where van Hunks was standing<br>and he did disappear<br>and there was only a scorched place<br>where he had been</div><div style="margin:10px 0">and on a summer day<br>when clouds cover Table Mountain, <br>the game of smoking<br>and gambling still continues.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Gert+Strydom">Gert Strydom</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=399081" data-title="Ort Jan van Hunks de Gert Strydom" data-description="Many years back an old pirate Ort Jan van Hunks lived in Cape Town and he had gathered enough loot to live an honest life. 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