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Updated: May 27, 2025
Sometimes the little Prince Mat, the son of the Governor, came down to the wharf and played with the children of the captain of the launch, while his Tuan Penager, or Teacher, dozed beneath his yellow umbrella; and often, at their play, his Excellency would pause and watch them, smiling kindly.
When she was four years old she went to the penager to learn to read and write. In a few months she could outstrip any one in the class in tracing Arabic characters on the sand-sprinkled floor, and she knew whole chapters in the Koran.
He saw, through it all, the wharf below the palace grounds, the fat old penager dozing in the sun, the raft they built together, and the birch-colored crocodiles that lay among the sinuous mangrove roots. "Noa," he whispered, as he imperiously motioned the crowd back. The dying man's lips moved. The Prince bent lower. "She loved you.
Baboo went to school for two hours every day to a fat old Arab penager, or teacher, whose schoolroom was an open stall, and whose only furniture a bench, on which he sat cross-legged, and flourished a whip in one hand and a chapter of the Koran in the other. There were a dozen little fellows in the school; all naked.
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