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Updated: May 12, 2025
Well, it was next to nothing but crawl like a slug in and out amongst trees, scratting one's self with that long, twining, climbing palm, and not once daring to stand up and walk." "Well, but what did you find out?" "Nothing at all, sir, except that there's a bit of a lodge here which seems as if it might belong to the Rajah, and be where he lived and slept." "And was he there?"
I'd saved a little money, and looked about for summat to do. I hadn't larning enough to go into an office as a writer; and I wouldn't have gone if I had, for I should have wasted to skin and bone if I'd sat up all the day on a high stool, scrat, scratting with a pen, and my nose almost growing to the papper. So I bethowt me as I'd larn to be a knife-grinder. It'd just suit me.
Mugford, I says, 'if those that talks about pigs would look to their own boys, they wouldn't run off to sea and come home with the shakums, I says; 'and if they would keep their fowls from scratting about in their neighbours' gardens, I says, 'they wouldn't run about crying for lost chimases. For there's hardly a day but I drive her fowls from my garden, my Lady.
"Yes, I do," and his eyes twinkled with satisfaction and pride in the prowess his young master had displayed. "What will he say?" cried the boy, anxiously, and as if he placed full confidence in the old servant's words. "Say you oughtn't to have been fighting, but been busy scratting about with your stylus and making marks on that wax."
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