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I walk along the country road and have a glimpse of the white and gold of a pagoda, and a glimpse of the river through tree trunks in shadow, and wish the steamer's horn for recall would not sound for many days. 21st January. Past Mimbu sands wide and whitey-grey. There are white cirri on blue sky and sand repeated on the river's surface.
MIMBU. Here are splendid trees, like those in Watteau's pictures, on the top of the banks, their foliage drooping over cottages. These are very neatly built on teak-wood legs.
He was shtiff wid books an' theouries, an' all manner av thrimmin's no manner av use. 'Town did ye say? sez he. 'Accordin' to the theouries av War, we shud wait for reinforcemints. 'Faith! thinks I, 'we'd betther dig our graves thin; for the nearest throops was up to their shtocks in the marshes out Mimbu way. 'But, says the Lift'nint, 'since 'tis a speshil case, I'll make an excepshin.
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