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'You know pretty well that Kohimarama is a small bay, about one-third of a mile along the sea frontage, two-and-a-half miles due east of Auckland, and just opposite the entrance into the harbour, between the North Head and Eangitoto. A fence runs along the whole length of it. Sam Fletcher is a man-of-war's man, age about thirty-eight, who has been with us some four years and a half.
"We have runned out simultaneous," she repeated as Captain Cai glanced up from the newspaper. "Which I refer to coals. Palmerston tells me there's not above two-and-a-half scuttlefuls in either cellar, search them how you will."
It cannot be too often repeated that we must never condemn a whole people for what some of the people do. In the two-and-a-half anecdotes which follow, you must watch out for something which lies beneath their very obvious surface. An American sat at lunch with a great English lady in her country-house.
Next morning I busied myself making a few additions to my outfit for the winter. Then I borrowed a two-and-a-half fathom canoe and paddled across the lake to Spearhead.
That quite little children desire fresh experiences or adventures and really exciting ones, is shown by the following stories made by children. The first two are by a little girl of two-and-a-half, the third is taken from Lady Glenconner's recently published The Sayings of the Children.
Little Guiraud, a mere bantling of two-and-a-half summers, wore his clown's costume in so comical a style that every one as he passed lifted him up and kissed him. "Here comes Jeanne," exclaimed Madame Deberle, all at once. "Oh, she is lovely!" A murmur ran round the room; heads were bent forward, and every one gave vent to exclamations of admiration.
They suffered many things ere they returned across the fields in a fly one Saturday night, nursing a two by two-and-a-half box of deeds and maps lawful owners of Friars Pardon and the five decayed farms therewith. "I do most sincerely 'ope and trust you'll be 'appy, Madam," Mrs. Cloke gasped, when she was told the news by the kitchen fire. "Goodness! It isn't a marriage!"
He ranged himself behind us, and straightway that stately snow-white young fellow closed up to the sidewalk alongside him, fetched him a cordial slap on the shoulder with his broad palm, and sung out with a hearty cheeriness: "AMERICANS for two-and-a-half and the money up! The Reverend winced, but said mildly: "Yes we are Americans." "Lord love you, you can just bet that's what I am, every time!
Luckily they misunderstood, for the price was "two hands for a medio," and as it was I had to leave lying on the grass several of the ten fine large oranges one of the aborigines had counted on his fingers and accepted a two-and-a-half cent piece for with a "Muchas gracias, amigo."
"Indeed, sir," replied the civil banker, who wished by any means to catch the clodpole's spoil "you are very obliging; we shall be glad to allow you two-and-a-half per centum per annum for the deposit you are good enough to leave in our keeping." "Leave in your keeping, Master! no, I didn't say that! by your leave, I'll keep it myself!"
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