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He had paid every tikkie of the money faithfully to Brounckers, and his hands were metaphorically clean, and his neck comfortably safe.
A Corporal's stripe, purchased from a trooper of the B.S.A., who, as the consequence of over-indulgence in liquor and language, had one to sell, had been sewn upon the sleeve. The original owner had charged an extra tikkie for doing it, and it burned the arm that bore it like a vaccination-pustule on the fifth day. "Being a sort of Service man meself," repeated W. Keyse.
There was a waggon and team Bough was to have had to sell, and use the money for the girl's keep, but a thief of a Dutch driver waltzed with them took 'em up Johannesburg way, and melted 'em into dollars. Bough got nothing for all his kindness not a tikkie. But he's ready to hand over the hundred, her being so nigh come to age.
I shan't shoot a tikkie the worse for it. Lay anybody 'ere a caulker I don't!" Nobody took up the bet, fortunately for the sportsman, as surgical examination proved that the bullet had gone sheer through the fleshy part of the upper arm, breaking the bone, just missing the artery, and leaving a clean hole. "You'll have to go to Hospital, my man," pronounced Saxham.
W. Keyse, Esquer, in caligraphy that began in the top left-hand corner, and trickled gradually down into the right-hand bottom one. Pumping the Celestial was no use. John Tow sabee'd only that a fair foreign devil gave the one missive, with a tikkie for delivery, and 'spose one time Tow makee plenty good walkee back with anulla paper some pidgin bime-bye catchee more tikkie.
With a strong, imperious shove, he dumped the blue bundle down among the cowslips in which the feet of the guilty fair were hidden, saying sternly: "I give you three minutes to git it off your chest, else kickie is wot you'll catch instead o' tikkie." He furnished a moderate sample on account. "Oh, ki ah. Oh, ki ah!" moaned the tingling John.
There was no answer. Saxham took the worn hunting-crop from under his arm, and with an easy movement shook out the twisted thong. "Where are those two boys? Jim Gubo! Rasu!" A pale young woman peeling potatoes at her door looked up knowingly. "They won't carry away a cabbage-leaf unless they're bribed, and they open their mouths wider every day. It's a tikkie a bucket now."
"You shall get the money, every tikkie. Only listen to me." Smoots Beste tossed off the fiery liquid, and returned in a tone less surly: "I am listening, Baas."
She could hardly hear him for the roaring in her poor bewildered head. "S'pose John tell, can catchee more tikkie? Plenty tikkie want to buy chow, allee so baddee times." "Always on the make, ain't you?" commented W. Keyse.
There was no doctor and no medicine save the few drugs the sick man had carried, as all travellers do. The milk for which he asked for himself and the child, which was procured from the native cattle-kraals for a tikkie a pint, and for which Bough charged at the price of champagne, kept him alive.
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