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Updated: May 16, 2025
The only atrocities that I saw in the Congo were the slaughter of my clothes on the native washboard, usually a rock, and the American jitney that broke down and left me stranded in the Kasai jungle.
She certainly was a "type." There was a certain kind of prettiness about the girl, and aside from her incongruous garments she was not unattractive when her face was revealed. Mr. Hammond's interest increased. He approached the spot where the girl had been left by the jitney driver. "You came to see somebody?" he asked kindly. "Who is it you wish to see?"
There had been no noise of a car to announce him; he just walked in mopping his forehead, for he had come in the jitney omnibus to the nearest point and had done the last mile on his own out-of-condition feet. Mrs. Ridding thought he was writing letters in the smoking-room.
Can Slim and the others get here in time to start in the morning?" "They can if I send them over in the jitney which will be quicker, and save them some hard riding. Have you got ponies enough for them?" "Yes, plenty.
I was just going to see about hiring an auto. Know where I can get one in this town?" "What do you want with an auto when I have my little jitney?" asked Babson, indicating the motor-cycle. "She's a good machine, but I haven't cleaned her lately. She'll carry double, too. Hop up behind me and I'll have you at Elmwood in no time. I'll bring you back, too, though I won't promise to carry the seal.
"You'll get used to it," Tiger Martin chuckled as they waited for the jitney to take them across to the launching pad. "At first you think everybody is impressed by the colors, until you see some guy go past with the braid all faded and frazzled at the edges, and then you realize that you're just the latest greenhorn in a squad of two hundred thousand men."
Between Kabambaie and Djoko Punda there is practically no navigation on account of the succession of dangerous rapids. Since my faith in the jitney was still impaired I chose the river route and it gave me the most stirring of all my African experiences. The two motor boats at Tshikapa were out of commission so I started at daybreak in a whale-boat manned by forty naked native paddlers.
Wait till we pull off the big noise and he'll be welcome to all the jitney gushers below the border." "When we do," Harrington Chase observed with emphasis. "We'll have to get hold of the old dame first." "We'll land her." Wiley smote his desk. "There isn't a woman living, young or old, who can cut the ground out from under my feet!"
"We'll hire a jitney of some sort down at the livery." Thereupon they all plunged into a lively discussion of plans for the concert, and so absorbed were they that they found themselves walking down Main Street before they had any idea that they were near the town. As they neared the big stone church on the corner they espied a familiar figure mounting the steps of the parsonage.
"And how about all those midnight suppers, and candy sprees, and the like?" "Mercy!" exclaimed Bess. "If it were not for those extras we should all starve to death. There! we've missed that jitney. We'll have to wait for another."
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