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Updated: May 22, 2025
After breakfast, being a child, he went out to play with a train of bullock-drivers haltered by the road-side, and we had to chase him out of a native liquor-shop where he was bargaining with a naked seven-year-old for a mynah in a bamboo cage. Wherefore do men grow behosh from drinking?"
Overhead the mynah birds are making a great to-do, and the surf beats ceaselessly against the reef. Those are the best journeys, the journeys that you take at your own fireside, for then you lose none of your illusions. But there are people who take salt in their coffee. They say it gives it a tang, a savour, which is peculiar and fascinating.
Then, cool and happy, they wandered back in the gloaming over the soft grass road to the creek, walking hand in hand, and now the mynah birds filled the coconut trees with their clamour.
"It is the nature of the water," l said, and calling back: "Strick, what's that grog-shop doing so close to the road? It's a temptation to any one's servants." "Dun'no," said a sleepy voice in the doolie. "This is Kennedy's district. 'Twasn't here in my time." "Truly the water smells bad," Adam went on. "I smelt it, but I did not get the mynah even for six annas.
"Speak, then," said Strickland. "What dost thou know? Remember the sais was beaten insensible." "That was in the bad-water shop where I played when we came here. The boy who would not sell me the mynah for six annas told me that a one-eyed man had come there and drunk the bad waters and gone mad. He broke bedsteads.
His thunderous laughter filled the verandah, rolled over the hotel garden, overflowed into the street, paralyzing for a short moment the noiseless traffic of bare brown feet; and its loud reverberations would even startle the landlord's tame bird a shameless mynah into a momentary propriety of behaviour under the nearest chair.
'But all priests are alike. Kim coughed severely. Being young, he did not approve of her flippancy. 'To importune the wise out of season is to invite calamity. 'There is a talking mynah' the thrust came back with the well-remembered snap of the jewelled fore-finger 'over the stables which has picked up the very tone of the family priest.
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