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"Why, yes, sir, you've travelled, sir, very much so indeed, sir you've shot lions and tigers and a helephant or so, and exchanged sentiments with raging 'eathen as rage in nothing but a string o' beads but what about your noomerous possessions in Europe, sir?" "Ah, yes," nodded Young R., "I do possess some shanties and things over there, don't I, Brimberly?" "Shanties, sir!" Mr.
Tell me before 'er as wot she wrote them these letters" he rapped himself dramatically upon the breast-pocket "and how you see her doing of it, before I kick your backbone through your hat." All was lost. The Chinaman had up an' give Emigration Jane away. Certainly he had saved her trouble, but what was he sayin' now, the 'orrible slant-eyed 'eathen?
Cusings, as was sweet on you then I've not seen 'im lately and now the coppers are under my very roof! It seems a judgment on us, it really does. But I always told Wattles that if he went on treatin' of 'is wedded wife more like a 'eathen than a Christian woman, as a judgment would come on 'im, an' now my words is proved."
Immediately a line of fire was kindled and its light, reflected again and again by the dazzling whiteness of their prison walls, made the whole place as light as day. At once Jarvis gave a cry of surprise and began crawling toward the farthest side. "H'I told you there was minerals," he exclaimed. "E's a rich un, this bloomin' 'eathen. H'it's gold, h'I'll be blowed!"
Sure it's different. Them natives up 'ere 'ave got reindeer, 'erds and 'erds of 'em." "I suppose they've got walrus ivory, too," said Dave, warming to the subject. "Ho, yes, walrus h'ivory a-plenty, them 'eathen 'ave got. But walrus h'ivory hain't so much. Too 'eavy to make a good cargo, an' not 'alf so good as h'elephant h'ivory.
An' after I met 'im all over the world, a-doin' all kinds o' things, Like landin' 'isself with a Gatling-gun to talk to them 'eathen kings; 'E sleeps in an 'ammick instead of a cot, an' 'e drills with the deck on a slue, An' 'e sweats like a Jolly 'er Majesty's Jolly soldier an' sailor too! For there isn't a job on the top o' the earth the beggar don't know nor do!
Somebody had oughter send him a trac'. You can get a trac' for a penny." Sara laughed a little. "I don't believe he worships that idol," she said; "some people like to keep them to look at because they are interesting. My papa had a beautiful one, and he did not worship it." But Becky was rather inclined to prefer to believe that the new neighbor was "an 'eathen."
I think they got it in their 'eads that we h'ought ter be pinched fer trespassin' 'er somethin' the like. But we'll fight the bloomin' 'eathen, we will, h'if they start a bloomin' rumpus." "What with?" smiled Dave. The old seaman looked nonplused for a moment. "Ho, well," he grinned, then. "Can't be any 'arm in goin' with the bloomin' idgits a piece, h'if they request it."
"'Er petticoat was yaller, an' 'er little cap was green. An' 'er name was Supi-yaw-lat jes' the same as Theebaw's Queen, An' I seed her first a-smokin' of a whackin' white cheroot. An' a-wastin' Christian kisses on a 'eathen idol's foot." They are all there in Rangoon yet the gorgeous coloring of the lady's raiment, her cheroots, and the heathen idols "Bloomin' idol made o' mud.
The uniform 'e wore Was nothin' much before, An' rather less than 'arf o' that be'ind, For a piece o' twisty rag An' a goatskin water-bag Was all the field-equipment 'e could find. It was "Din! Din! Din! You 'eathen, where the mischief 'ave you been? 'E would dot an' carry one Till the longest day was done; An' 'e didn't seem to know the use o' fear.
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