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Updated: May 28, 2025
"By the end of next month," said I, "it will be two whole years since we left England since we pulled up the anchor at Kingsbridge and bumped our way out into the river." "And got stuck on the mud-bank," added Chee-Chee in a dreamy, far-away voice. "Do you remember how all the people waved to us from the river-wall?" I asked. "Yes.
Poor man, how he does work! Chee-Chee, get the pipe and tobacco out of the cupboard and lay the dressing-gown ready on his chair." When the Doctor came into the room he looked serious and thoughtful. Wearily he took off his crown and hung it on a peg behind the door.
I never think of them without recalling a precocious ballad-screamer of eight years who was flourished indispensably at every chee-chee hop in Chandernagore: "O lay me in a little pit, With a marvle thtone to cover it, And keearve thereon a turkle-dove, That the world may know I died for love!" I left India in consequence of that child.
He was so conspicuous in his bathing-suit the way he was, with his face white and the rest of him black." "And how is Chee-Chee getting on? Chee-Chee," added the Doctor in explanation to me, "was a pet monkey I had years ago. I left him too in Africa when I came away." "Well," said Polynesia frowning, "Chee-Chee is not entirely happy. I saw a good deal of him the last few years.
Then Chee-Chee told them that in the Land of the White Men you could get nothing without money; you could DO nothing without money that it was almost impossible to LIVE without money. And some of them asked, "But can you not even eat and drink without paying?" But Chee-Chee shook his head.
A heavy, authoritative voice came in with much greater volume. "That's no human voice," it said harshly. "Approach its ship and send back an image. Don't fire first unless it heads for ground." The guard ship swerved and headed for the Med Ship. It was still a very long way off. "Chee-chee," said Murgatroyd encouragingly. Calhoun changed the Med Ship's course. The guard ship changed course too.
And wait a minute see if Dab-Dab has any bananas in the pan-try. Chee-Chee hasn't had a banana, he tells me, in two months." When I came down again to the kitchen I found everybody listening attentively to the monkey who was telling the story of his journey from Africa.
Now they began to wonder and ask one another what would be the best thing to give him. And one said, "Fifty bags of cocoanuts!" And another "A hundred bunches of bananas! At least he shall not have to buy his fruit in the Land Where You Pay to Eat!" But Chee-Chee told them that all these things would be too heavy to carry so far and would go bad before half was eaten.
"What I am wondering," said the Doctor, "is where we are going to get another boat to go home in.... Oh well, perhaps we'll find one lying about on the beach that nobody is using. 'Never lift your foot till you come to the stile." One day, while they were passing through a very thick part of the forest, Chee-Chee went ahead of them to look for cocoanuts.
"Mem Sahib! one chee-chee woman wanch look see Master, ispeakee Master buksheesh give; paunch butcha have got." "Paunch butcha! five children! why, Karlee, there are but two here.
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