I was also becoming the youngest son of my employers's chaufeur, and had to drive him where-ever he wanted to go. As he was born to them when they were quite high in age, specially the old lord, the boy was a little retarded, but quite capable of doing a lot of things for himself. So one Saturday I was asked if I minded taking the young man to the agricultural show, as he went every year, and loved it. It was very strange, this slower boy, with the proud and quite haughty bearing of his dad, a purebred noble. Firstly he wanted to visit a special food tent, where the more gourmet foodies were on sale, and there were plates with samples to taste at every stall. This boy was in ecstasy, and went from stall to stall, and it really made a wonderful if bizarre picture, this noble looking and posh speaking young man, eating away at the samples from one stall until nothing was left on the plates, then he moved on to the next stall, and did the same. I tried to remonstrate with him, as I could see that the stallholders were getting a bit worked up, but just then one of the old Lord's aquaintences spotted us, and told me that the boy did this every year! At last he had gone the whole length of the big tent, explaining loudly the attributes and bad points of every stall, and he was all for starting over, but I noticed that no additional samples were on show, so he lost interest, and dragged me to the animal camps, where he told all who wanted to listen about every breed and its peculiarities and illnesses, and I realised, as he stood talking to some men, that he was not as retarded as people made him out to be, but changed my mind a few moments later.
He got tired of the animals, and said he wanted a burger. On our way to the foodstalls we came upon this small train for kiddies, and he insisted on a ride. Luckily the bloke running it was aquainted with the family, and said it was ok for Bennie to have a ride. But then he insisted on me getting on with him, so the owner said ok, get up, no problem! My charge wanted o sit in the front, and up we went, and the little train, its other passengers between the ages of  three and six, started its course around the grounds with Bennie shouting, laughing and waving at everybody.Some people I think knew him, as they waved back and shouted their hello's, but a lot of them was absolutely shocked into just staring from me to the young man who was enjoying himself immensely!
I was enjoying the farm, and the fruit and veggies that was brought in every morning was just incredible, fresh and wet with dew. As Trienkie and myself was now responsible for dinner if there were no guests, me cooking, and Trienkie serving, I had a ball, as never before did I have such fresh and such a variety of fresh produce. Benny was in the kitchen with us most of the time, and he was quite happy to help us peel veggies and do the washing up. We were always singing and dancing, and he loved it if we made a train by holding on to each other and run around the table, singing at the top of our voices. As all the servants went home at night, and the room where his parents had their dinner were  in another part of the house, and out of earshot, we had a wonderful time with the lad who I think must have been quite bored.
One day I went for a walk and came across this large amount of small graves, and was very sad for all this small babies of this family and their forbears who had died so young. The whole time during my walk I was thinking about this, and when I mentioned it to Heather the cook, she started laughing until her eyes started watering, and I felt quite affronted until she got her composure back, and told me that it was all the family dogs that lay there! Must say, I thought the lot named their babies quite strangely!
The Lady and myself talked a lot while we worked, and I learned a lot about the history of the place, and how a lot of Christians had died under the hands of the Catholics who found them hiding there. Scary!Trienkie was getting bored, had agreed to stay for a while longer to be with me, but I knew she was wanting to go to a new job, as she now knew about how the nobility lived! But before they left, she and her friends were going on a Kontiki tour, and as I was now finished with the old part of the house, and had promised to do the spiral staircase, I decided to stay until they came back, after which she would stay on for another two weeks.