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It is customary to pay laborers in rice; likewise the value of animals, beads, and the like are reckoned and paid in this medium. During the dry season rice is loaned, to be repaid after the harvest with interest of about fifty per cent. According to tradition, the Tinguian were taught to plant and reap by a girl named Dayapán.
I may have mentioned that it was customary for Hawkins and myself to travel down-town together on the elevated six days in the week. So far as that goes, we still do so; for it has come over me recently that any attempt to dodge the demoniac inventions of Hawkins is about as thankless and hopeless a task as seeking to avoid the setting of the sun.
I did, in fact, many things at an earlier age than is customary, because I was always associated with my brother, who was a year and a half older. We were early taught to skate, too, and how many happy hours we passed, frequently with our sisters, on the ice by the Louisa and Rousseau Islands in the Thiergarten!
Then followed the evidence of the constables taken down in the presence of an officer at Bournemouth, to the effect "That on Dec. 10th, at 2 p.m., I, Police Constable 'J , together with Constable 'D , was patrolling the Park at Bournemouth when I saw Private B of the 15th Battalion sitting on a park seat with two young ladies. As was customary in such cases I asked him if he had a pass.
Judging from the sound, more than one person. "It is just as well," said Psmith softly, "that Comrade Maloney is not at his customary post. Now, in about a quarter of a minute, as I said Aha!" The handle of the door began to revolve slowly and quietly. The next moment three figures tumbled into the room.
"Are you wanting anything?" he demanded, with his customary directness. "Nothing much," Nap said. "You might give me a sleeping-draught if you're disposed to be charitable. I seem to have lost the knack of going to sleep. What I really came to say was that Hudson will go with you to-morrow if you will be good enough to put up with him. He won't give you any trouble.
"We are none too soon, sir," said Stowel, the moment he had received the rear-admiral with the customary etiquette of the hour. "It's a cap-full of wind already, and it promises to blow harder before morning. We are catted and fished, sir, and the forecastle-men are passing the shank-painter at this moment."
Suddenly she burst into a passion of tears and clung to him as a child to its mother. He smiled with a smile that affected me most disagreeably perhaps any kind of smile would have done so and led her silently out of the room. There was an inquest and the customary verdict: the deceased, it appeared, came to her death through "heart disease."
"Nothing to speak of, Corny, I thank you," was the cheerful answer; "these red gentlemen have had me tied to a tree, and have been seeing how near they could hurl their tomahawks without hitting. This is one of their customary amusements, and I have got a scratch or two in the sport. I hope the ladies are in good spirits, and do not let the business of last night distress them."
For a day or two longer their thoughts and conversations were haunted by Gusterson's vague sardonic visions of a horde of tickler-energized moles pouring up out of the tunnels to tear down the remaining trees, tank the atmosphere and perhaps somehow dismantle the stars at least on this side of the world but then they both settled back into their customary easy-going routines. Gusterson typed.
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