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Updated: June 27, 2025
Unfortunately it did not fill the water-butts with water, but already the garden was holding up its head, and Billy was claiming that he had scored a win. "Well?" he said, waylaying Cheon in the garden, "Well, me rainmaker? Eh?" and Cheon's superstitious heart bowed down before such evidence.
Cheon's English generally required paraphrasing. Almost every day some fresh garment collapsed, and I bitterly regretted my recklessness in giving Jimmy's Nellie the bath wrapper. Fortunately a holland dress was behaving beautifully. "A staunch little beast," the Maluka called it.
At the faintest sound of a cackle, a dosing lubra was roused by the point of Cheon's toe, as he shouted excitedly above her: "Fowl sing out! That way! Catch 'im egg! Go on!" pointing out the direction with much pantomime; and as the egg-basket filled to overflowing, he either chuckled with glee or expressed further contempt for Sam's ways.
The higher the plates were piled the more infectious Cheon's chuckle became, until nothing short of a national calamity could have checked our flow of spirits.
Near the top was a silver filigree candlestick moulded into the form of a Convolvulus flower and leaf a dainty little thing, but it appeared ridiculous to Cheon's commonsense mind. "Him silly fellow," he scoffed, and appealed to the Maluka for his opinion: "him silly fellow? Eh boss?" he asked. The Maluka was half-buried in books.
But two of these sick travellers went down to the very gates of death, where one, a little Chinaman, slipped through, blessing the "good boss," who treated all men alike, and leaving an echo of the blessing in old Cheon's loyal heart.
An expert fisherman was discovered among the helpers one Bob by name. Cheon's shot-gun appeared to have a magnetic attraction for wild duck. A garden sprang up as by magic, grasshoppers being literally chased off the vegetables. The only thing we lacked was butter; and after a week of order and cleanliness and dazzlingly varied menus, we wondered how we had ever existed without them.
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