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"Chee-chee," said Murgatroyd encouragingly. Calhoun changed the Med Ship's course. The guard-ship changed course too. Calhoun let it draw nearer, but only a little. He led it away from the fleet of grain-ships. He swung his electron telescope on them. He saw a space-suited figure outside one, safely roped, however.
But he was wrong; because the monkey, Chee-Chee, knew all the paths through the jungle better even than the King's men did. And he led the Doctor and his pets to the very thickest part of the forest a place where no man had ever been before and hid them all in a big hollow tree between high rocks. "We had better wait here," said Chee-Chee, "till the soldiers have gone back to bed.
No, more to the right of where you're looking. Can't you make out the figure of the black man standing against the sky? Now Chee-Chee spies us he's waving. Don't you see them?" I didn't for my eyes were not as sharp as Miranda's. But presently from somewhere in the murky dusk I heard Bumpo singing his African comic songs with the full force of his enormous voice.
But they turned him back and drove him away. And presently he noticed a whole big family of funny people passing on to the ship. And one of the children in this family reminded Chee-Chee of a cousin of his with whom he had once been in love. So he said to himself, "That girl looks just as much like a monkey as I look like a girl.
Everything's just the same as when I left except the clean roller-towel on the back of the door there that's new Well, I think I'll go to bed now. I need sleep." Then we all went out of the kitchen into the scullery and watched Chee-Chee climb the plate-rack like a sailor going up a mast.
Because, to tell you the truth, I think you are exactly the man we need." TWO days after that we had all in readiness for our departure. On this voyage Jip begged so hard to be taken that the Doctor finally gave in and said he could come. Polynesia and Chee-Chee were the only other animals to go with us. Dab-Dab was left in charge of the house and the animal family we were to leave behind.
And then he told them that even he, when he was with the organ-grinder, had been made to ask the children for money. And the Chief Chimpanzee turned to the Oldest Orangoutang and said, "Cousin, surely these Men be strange creatures! Who would wish to live in such a land? My gracious, how paltry!" Then Chee-Chee said,
And when she came up she said they had struck a rock; there was a big hole in the bottom of the ship; the water was coming in; and they were sinking fast. "We must have run into Africa," said the Doctor. "Dear me, dear me! Well we must all swim to land." But Chee-Chee and Gub-Gub did not know how to swim. "Get the rope!" said Polynesia. "I told you it would come in handy. Where's that duck?
Of course at first they all found their new jobs very hard to do all except Chee-Chee, who had hands, and could do things like a man. But they soon got used to it; and they used to think it great fun to watch Jip, the dog, sweeping his tail over the floor with a rag tied onto it for a broom.
"CHEE-CHEE," "be silent!" or "fie," is termed "Anglo-Indian," by the author of the Slang Dictionary, but we need not go to India of the present day for a term which is familiar to every Gipsy and "traveller" in England, and which, as Mr Simson discovered long ago, is an excellent "spell" to discourage the advances of thimble-riggers and similar gentry, at fairs, or in public places.
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