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Updated: June 7, 2025
He receives his change, and counts it with a great air of wisdom. The épicière breaks into a rapid recital it sounds rather like our curate at home getting to work on When the wicked man of the beauty and succulence of her other wares. Up goes Goffin's hand again. "Na pooh!" he exclaims.. "Bong jooer!" And he stumps out to the mess-cart. "Na pooh!" is a mysterious but invaluable expression.
The fat brigadier drew bridle; Burley burst into French: "Esker esker " "Oui," nodded the brigadier, "that is where we are going." "Bong!" exclaimed Burley with satisfaction; and, turning to Sticky Smith: "Stick, tell the coons to hustle. We’re there!"
What do you think, Susan, I met him on the road the other evenin' w'en takin' a stroll by myself down near the Glassyer day Bossong, an' I says to him, quite in a friendly way, `bong joor, says I, which is French, you know, an' what the natives here says when they're in good humour an' want to say `good-day, `all serene, `how are you off for soap? an' suchlike purlitenesses.
The Râjas at Pĕkan were very far away, while Wan Bong, with unlimited power in his hands, was at their very doors. Therefore the natives of the upper country had no hesitation in selecting the side to which it was most politic for them to adhere. Wan Bong installed his father as Bĕndăhâra of Pahang with much state, and many ceremonial observances.
Perhaps the glasses of some British lookout picked us up at any rate the whisper of bullets became uncomfortably frequent and near, and we had just got to the motors when Tssee ee rr... BONG! a shell crashed into the church of La Bassée, only three hundred yards in front of us.
Just when things were at their gayest, with children's voices clamoring everywhere like starlings, and Bong, the little elephant, swinging good-naturedly up the broad white track with all the load he had room for on his back, there came an ominous jar and rumble, like the first of an earthquake, which ran along the front of Last Bull's range.
Throughout the rest of the day he endeavored to confuse the German's evident information by the display of the French cap and of French sentences on the board like "Bong jewr," "Bong nwee," and "Mercridi," which he told the others was the French for a day of the week, the spelling being correct as he knew because he had seen it written down, and the day indicated, he believed, being Wednesday or Thursday.
Miles, who had not had the educational advantages of her daughter, simpered up with "Madame Newcome pas ici votre excellence nouvellement arrive avez-vous fait ung bong voyage?
"Bong jour, Mademoiselle," continued Burley, saluting her en passant with two fingers at the vizor of his khaki cap, as he had seen British officers salute. "I compliment you on your silent but eloquent welcome to me, my comrades, my coons, and my mules. Your charming though slightly melancholy smile bids us indeed welcome to your fair city.
With a careless air, that sat grotesquely on his tall square person, he walked up to the door; both girls stood in the passage. Swithin felt a confused desire to speak in some foreign tongue. "Maam'selles," he began, "er bong jour-er, your father pare, comment?" "We also speak English," said the elder girl; "will you come in, please?" Swithin swallowed a misgiving, and entered.
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