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Updated: June 7, 2025
A gharry a close carriage on four wheels with a dirty-looking driver and a tiny pony now conveyed, or rather set forth to convey, the traveller to the hospitable house of a certain distinguished general who resides in Singapore. Singapore is a city in which it is notoriously difficult to find one's way about, as all the roads seem alike they are all excellent and so do the houses.
And we met farther on the way a dirty-looking youth with his bagpipes slung over his shoulder in dilapidated modern garb he was anything but a fit descendant of the minstrels whose fame has come down to us in song and story.
Our food in this hospitable house was simple: apricots, fresh, or dried and stewed with honey; zho's milk, curds and cheese, sour cream, peas, beans, balls of barley dough, barley porridge, and 'broth of abominable things. Chang, a dirty-looking beer made from barley, was offered with each meal, and tea frequently, but I took my own 'on the sly. I have mentioned a churn as part of the 'plenishings' of the living-room.
The next day a dirty-looking letter was put in my hand by a native, which, being addressed to me, ran something in this style: "Honord Zur "I'm sorry to hinform you that the carrige and osses has met with a haccidint and is tumbled down a preccippice and its a mussy as I didn't go too.
It also sold newspapers, and a row of dirty-looking posters hung along the front of it. "I am afraid," said Wayne, as he entered, "that I am not getting on with these tradesmen as I should. Is it that I have neglected to rise to the full meaning of their work? Is there some secret buried in each of these shops which no mere poet can discover?"
You'll like to see this, though, Mr Denham?" The Sergeant began to fumble in his pouch, bringing out several cartridges before he found what he wanted a dirty-looking piece of milky quartz. "What have you got there?" we asked in a breath. "Stuff the men are finding in a hole at the back of the cook's fireplace." "Why, it's gold ore," I said eagerly. "Nonsense!
He wasn't the kind of man I fancied, but there's no denying he was attractive in his own wicked way. 'Ah! said a dirty-looking man, who was more than suspected of being a welcher, 'couldn't he tell slap-up yarns about H'injins an' 'eathens as bows down to stocks and stones. Oh, no! not he 'He could lie like a one-year-old, if that's what y' mean, said Mosk.
The young whaling officer sat down near the skylight, and as the dark-faced, dirty-looking ruffian seated opposite passed him, with an amiable grin, a decanter of excellent sherry, wondered which of the two Levantines was the greater cut-throat of the two. Ryan, as he called himself, was somewhat of a dandy.
Judge of his surprise, then, when George led the way into an old, dirty-looking counting-room, very small and dingy, containing two dilapidated high desks, standing against the wall. They were made of pitch pine, painted and grained, but so scarred and whittled as to have the appearance of long use and abuse.
Dumpty longed to stop and talk to a dear little piebald pony, but Humpty carried her on till they came to the caravans. Four or five men were lying face downwards on the grass worn out and tired. Before the steps of one caravan a group of children were playing, whilst one woman in a red shawl sat on the steps smoking a clay pipe, and holding a dirty-looking baby in her arms.
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