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Updated: May 22, 2025
The girl noted the clusters of berries showing redly against the dark green of some pepper-vines that clambered up the black nebong posts of her home; she wondered vaguely as he talked if she were to go on through life seeing pepper-vines and betel-nut trees, and hot sand and featherless hens, and never get beyond the shadow of the mysterious mountains.
I could hear them singing as they crossed the compound and struck into the jungle road: "Oh, it's Tommy this, an' Tommy that, an' 'Tommy, go away'; But it's 'Thank you, Mister Atkins, when the band begins to play, The band begins to " A peal of thunder that shook the bungalow from its attap roof to its nebong pillars drowned the melody and drove me inside. In the Malayan Jungle
"The posts are to be of polished nebong" he was saying, "the wood-work of maranti wood from Pahang; and there is to be a cote, ever so cunningly woven of green and yellow bamboo, for your ring-doves, under the attap of the great eaves above the door." She turned wearily toward her lover, and the bright look faded from her comely face.
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