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"Why do you say 'ye'?" said the Gee Gees together. "Because it's more impressive than 'you. Don't you know that all animals talk that way in English?" said the Moo Kow. "And they also say 'thou, and don't you forget it!" interrupted Miaow from the tree. "I learnt that from a Man Cub." The animals were silent.
We found old Yam Kow seated before his hut, which was made of bits of sticks, pieces of boards, stones, and mud, all cemented and fitted together in the neatest manner, and what was more wonderful than all, perfectly water tight, and as clean inside as possible.
Peter was nowhere about, and as she plunged into the work of house and farmyard she supposed, without giving the matter a conscious thought, that he had gone to the city. "Mis' Peter not go train," Kow announced, presently. All Alix's vague suspicions awakened. "Not go train?" she asked, with a premonitory pang. Kow made a large gesture, as indicating affairs disorganized.
"Of course!" she answered. "But you won't stay in that lonely cabin all alone," she added, almost timidly. "No, I shan't be there long!" he assured her, briefly. "Everything's finished up now. I'm leaving Kow in charge, of course. I'll be back one of these days!" "Just now," Cherry mused, sadly, "perhaps it is best for you to get away!
Even yet thou art to me No bird, but an invisible thing, A voice, a mystery." The black-billed is the only species found in my locality, the yellow-billed abounds farther south. Their note or call is nearly the same. The former sometimes suggests the voice of a turkey. The call of the latter may be suggested thus: k-k-k-k-k-kow, kow, kow-ow, kow-ow.
He'd seen millionaires in New York, he said, who were afraid of cab drivers. "And besides," said Petey, when a few of us were talking it over after dinner, "I'd never have got him if he hadn't been so meek. I was determined that no Mu Kow Moo was going to hang anything on us; and when I saw the three of them coming I waded right in.
Alix echoed in a low tone, as if to herself. "And you say he didn't sleep, Kow?" "Bed all same daytime," the boy said. And with the artless laugh of his race he added, "I go sleep." "You slept, of course," Alix answered, absently. "Where Mr. Peter go now?" she asked. "He have some coffee?" "No eat," the boy answered.
That he had money there was no doubt, for he was always at work, or trading with his countrymen, and he was never known to spend a shilling for clothing or food. What he lived on was unknown, and could only be conjectured; but it was said that Kow had been seen nights setting traps for snakes and rats, and even lizards were considered quite delicate meat for him.
And there were the Shi Delts, who were a bold, bad bunch; and the Fli Gammas, who were good, pious boys, about as exciting as a smooth-running prayer-meeting; and the Delta Kappa Sonofaguns, who got every political office either by electing a member or initiating one; and the Delta Flushes; and the Mu Kow Moos; the Sigma Numerous; and two or three others that we didn't lie awake nights worrying about.
Kow nodded, glancing down toward the valley. But Peter jerked his head instead toward the bare ridge. "No, I go now not come back!" he said, briefly. "To-night maybe Bolinas to-morrow, Inverness. I don't know. By and by the big mountains, Kow by and by I forget!" Tears glittered in the Chinese boy's eyes, but he smiled with a great air of cheer. "I keep house!" he promised.
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