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But all that did not amount to understanding an owl, as I discovered when Tommy became a member of our chummery. Tommy was born in "the second city of the British Empire," to wit, Bombay, in the month of March, 1901. His birthplace was a hole in an old "Coral" tree. Domestic life in that hole was not conducted with regularity.
"That is a very pretty girl with flowers in her hair, beside her," remarked Sophy; "look, she is nodding to you. Who is she?" "Her name is Ma Chit; she is Mrs. Salter's cousin. Sometimes she drops in when I am there; the Salters live close to my chummery. I have a munshi now and I am learning Burmese." "And and I am learning German!" "How do you hit it off with your uncle?"
Being taller than Shafto, he appeared to tower over him as he questioned him respecting the firm in London which was but a small and insignificant offshoot of the great house in Rangoon; then he made a few perfunctory remarks on the subject of the voyage out, and said: "I understand from Salter that you have found quarters in a chummery; I hope your house-mates will prove congenial " he paused and added as a sort of afterthought, "Mrs.
I was then living in a chummery in Circular Road, Ballygunge, and the entrance from Lower Circular Road, Calcutta, was so blocked up with fallen trees and other debris that I found it impossible to make headway against it in my gharry, so I sent it back to the office and walked to the house, or rather scrambled over trees and other obstacles the best way I could.
"I'm Salter from Gregory's. Manders, the head assistant, asked me to meet you. I'll be glad to help you get your things ashore and take you to the Strand Hotel, where I have booked you a room." "That is most awfully good of you," replied Shafto. "On Monday I believe I am to get quarters in a chummery." "Ah, so you are settled, I see.
I well recollect there was for some time a house on the left-hand side which was occupied by the assistants of the old Oriental Bank, all of whom I knew very well, and it went by the name of the Oriental Bank Chummery. They subsequently removed to one of the Panch Kotee houses in Rawdon Street, where they used to give dances and other entertainments.
In his novel and detached position he realised a sense of independence; he was breathing a new existence, an exhilarating atmosphere, and enjoying every hour of the day. At table and in the smoke-room he picked up a certain amount of useful information respecting Burma, listened to many a "Don't" with polite attention, and was offered the address of a fairly good chummery in Rangoon.
His honour found it impossible to articulate; he merely stood and gaped. The Irish pongye, born in Cork and Madras, was a tall, gaunt, middle-aged man, with high cheek-bones, a closely-shorn head, and horn spectacles. "Might I ask yer name, sorr?" he inquired at last, "and where ye live?" "My name is Shafto; I live in a chummery at the corner of Sandwith Road."
Then some boy of the chummery wherein Dicky lodged would pound on the door of his bare little room, and tell him to come out and look at a pony the very thing to suit him. Dicky could not afford ponies. He had to explain this. Dicky could not afford living in the chummery, modest as it was. He had to explain this before he moved to a single room next the office where he worked all day.
Most of the fellows in business in Rangoon are Scotch. Murray was in the same chummery; there were four chums till May." "And Number Four has gone home?" "He has to his long home, worse luck; he broke his neck fooling over a log jump."
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