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He never cut them down, although their pay was very high as they became more and more expert. "Instead of books he kept hooks two of them. All the bills he owed he jabbed on one hook, and stuck mems of what was due him on the other. If he had no tickers ready to deliver when an account came due, he gave his note for the amount required.
Governor, general, all white tuans and mems there. Tuan Consul's carriage not nice. Shall syce buy ribbons?" "Yes," I answered, tossing him the rest of the coppers, "and get a new one for your arm." I had forgotten for the moment that it was the 31st of December. The syce touched his hand to his forehead and salaamed.
A good snow-shoe would be worth its weight in gold on this surface, and if we can get something really practical we ought to greatly increase our distances next year. Mems. Storage of biscuit next year, lashing cases on sledges. Look into sledgemeter. Picket lines for ponies. Food tanks to be size required. Two sledges altered to take steel runners. Stowage of pony food.
Simple, spontaneous, curious, two souls interchanging, With the original testimony for us continued to the last. Of course these few exceptional later mems are far, far short of one's concluding history or thoughts or life-giving only a hap-hazard pinch of all. There's something in the proverb; but you mustn't carry it too far.
"I own," wrote Selwyn, "that to see Charles closeted every instant at Brooks's by one or other, that he can neither punt or deal for a quarter of an hour but he is obliged to give an audience, while Hare is whispering and standing behind him, like Jack Robinson, with a pencil and paper for mems., is to me a scene la plus parfaitement que l'on puisse imaginer, and to nobody it seems more risible than to Charles himself."
"Don't forget that the pen is the mightier of the two." "No," she dissented; "I back the sword, though it's rarely drawn now, thank goodness. Well, I've said my say and given you my impressions and instructions; we must go back and join the Burra Mems. I shall write to you from Mandalay and see you later, when I pass through to Calcutta.
Such anecdotes of our habits and customs as they crammed him with, it would appear, never were heard before; nothing was too hot or too heavy for the luckless cockney, who, when not sipping his claret, was faithfully recording in his tablet the mems. for a very brilliant and very original work on Ireland.
Plainly and distinctly these mems. were jotted: "Proof positive O'B. or confederate. "To be discovered whether O'B. himself or the other? "Possibilities Thomsons No Scotts No Scollays No." The Thomsons and Scotts I knew to be tenants of seaboard farms like the Scollays, and after the Scollays came three other names, each with "No" written after them.
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