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I use duck shot, goose shot, sometime nails, and sometime little stones, and once in woods I kill gleat bear with junk of lead: but I never shoot arrow before." Thus said Peter, wondering at his own achievement. Waring had noted with great curiosity the effect of the new missile. "Where did you learn that, Charley? To think that a piece of soft wood should kill such huge animals!"
I took out the stopper and smelt it. "Smell velly good; all nicee." "Why, it smells of peppermint drops," I said carelessly. "Yes, smell beautiful, all peppimint. Velly gleat stlong. Muchee lit' dlop, so."
Take the tiller, Mr Herrick," he said, and he went forward. "Going blow wind velly high. Gleat wave and knock houses down," said Ching uneasily. "Yes, my lad; we're going to have what the Jay-pans calls a tycoon." "No, no, Tom Jecks," I said, smiling. "You may laugh, sir, but that's so. I've sailed in these here waters afore and been in one.
Lee Wing, discovered in the onion bed, was presently brought to the scratch, despite his protests. He said he "couldn't lun," but was told that in all probability no running would be required of him. He also said "no can dlive" many times, and further remarked, "Allee same gleat bosh."
"Allee done," said Ching. "Execution man have velly much plactice." He said this to me, but I made no reply, for the whole place seemed to be going round and round. "You thinkee they all come back again and have junk? Go kill shoot evelybody, pilate ghost-man?" "No," I said hoarsely; "can we go now?" "Velly soon. Gleat clowd all along gate. Lookee, Mis' Tanner go s'eep."
Simultaneous with the change, he sprang up from his reclining position, uttering as he did so an exclamation in the Malayan tongue, which his companions guessed to be some formula of address to the Deity, from its ending with the word "Allah." "De gleat God be thank!" he continued, returning to his "pigeon English," so that the others might understand. "We all be save. Buld no poison.
This view of the matter so tickled Raeburn that he left Ralph and Dolly to see the "'normous gleat big cat" wrapped up, and went out of the shop laughing. But just outside, a haggard, wild-looking man came up to him and began to address him in excited tones. "You are the vile atheist, Luke Raeburn!" he cried, "Oh, I know you well enough.
"Ah, I see," said Ching. "Me tink you have velly gleat tleat. But I see, not used to see. Velly blave boy, not mind littlee bit next time." "What's the matter? Don't, doctor. It's getting well now." It was Barkins who spoke, and his hands went suddenly to his injured leg, and held it, as he bent over towards it and rocked himself to and fro.
"Allee too velly much flighten, and lun away from foleign devil sailor and maline." "But they might have come down to their place here," I said. Ching smiled contemptuously. "Pilate velly blave man, fight gleat deal when allee one side, and know sailor can't fightee. When plenty sailor can fightee, pilate lun away velly fast, and no come back." "Can you understand him, Mr Grey?" I said.
Had to race afore it with bare poles and holding on to the belaying-pins. Tycoons they call 'em, don't they, Mr Ching?" "Gleat blow storm," said Ching, nodding. "Hullicane." "There you are, sir," said Jecks. "Hurricanes or tycoons." "Typhoons," I said. "Yes, sir, that's it, on'y you pernounces it different to me.
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