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The old henchman looked at the new favorite as dispassionately as he would have looked at a weapon or a dog that had taken his master's fancy. "I would not oppose your will in this, any more than in other things; yet I take it upon me to remind you of Kark. If you make this cook-boy your bowerman, to keep the scales balancing you must make him who was your bowerman into a cook-boy.
God send we find better protection than thy carcass." "Boo! hoo!" blubbered Meroo the cook-boy. "Lo! Head-nurse! I could kill a whole army by poisoning their suppers." Head-nurse nodded faint approval. "Now, there is some sense in that, scullion, but what about that they may do supperless? If they should dare "
Head-nurse and Foster-mother shrieked with fright, little Adam ran like a hare for the shelter of his mother's petticoats, and Meroo the cook-boy, remembering his bare legs for like all Indian scullions he wore short cotton drawers squatted down where he was standing, in order to protect them.
I reckon you ain't forgot Tasman, eh? nor the scrap at Thursday Island. Say old Tasman was killed by his niggers only last year up German New Guinea way. Remember his cook-boy? Ngani-Ngani? He was the ringleader. Tasman swore by him, but Ngani-Ngani hatcheted him just the same." "Shake hands with Captain Carlsen, Fred," was Tom's introduction of his brother to another visitor.
I've got the fire to drawin' and some coffee set on, because I knew we'd need 'em before that cook-boy got his eyes open wide enough to see his way up here. It ain't exactly a fancy repast, neither, so it won't tax your culinary skill none to tend it. I there's something I'd like to look into a little something I sort of lost sight of while we were soothing our mutual friend in yonder.
All along the procession reechoed the shout, "We have the baker and the baker's wife and the little cook-boy now we shall have bread." Paris had again saved the National Assembly from royal intimidation, and the Assembly promptly acknowledged the debt by following the king to that city.
Come! trusting in God's mercy for the child. And come quickly while the darkness of the storm shrouds our going." Then he looked round on those others Head-nurse, Wet-nurse, Old Faithful, Roy the Râjput, and Meroo the cook-boy not much of a bodyguard for the young prince, and yet, since force would be useless, perhaps as good as any other, if they had a head between them.
He was a short, sturdy boy of five, and nothing would induce him to go down on his knees and touch the ground with his forehead. In vain Meroo, the cook-boy, promised him sweets if he would only obey orders; in vain Old Faithful spoke of a ride on his old war-horse, and Roy, who was a most wonderful story-teller, promised him the best of all, Bopuluchi.
But every now and again he would say something or do something which would make those around him look surprised, and wonder who he could have been to know such things and have such manners. After him came Meroo, the misshapen cook-boy.
The seats of these canoes are bars of wood tied transversely to the length. The party is composed of Bombay, my interpreter; Gaetano, the Goanese cook-boy; two Beluch soldiers; one Nakhuda or sea-captain, who sometimes wore a goat-skin; and twenty stark-naked savage sailors: twenty-six in all.
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