Vietnam or Thailand ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Updated: May 13, 2025
I wish we had stayed with him," cried May. "I am very sure Harry Shafto has not given it up," said Willy. "He knows that the only way to get the people out of the ship is on this side. We shall soon see what he is about to do." The part of the reef where the ship had struck was under water, and some distance from the point of rocks which ran out from the shore.
Henry came ambling in at this juncture and, sitting down, began washing his face with his paws, giving not the slightest heed to the tirade that Joe Shafto was hurling at him. "Ye git no breakfast to-day," raged the forest woman. "Oh, don't be so hard-hearted," begged Hippy. "Give the poor fish a rind of bacon at least. You don't know what it means to have an appetite."
The Tremenheeres sent him an express rifle, the Tebbs a dispatch box, Mrs. Malone gave him a silver cigarette case and a warm rug, Mrs. Galli gave him her blessing, and his mother gave him advice. On the appointed day a band of friends travelled down to Tilbury to take leave of Douglas Shafto. These included Mrs. Malone, Mr. Hutton, the two Japanese gentlemen, and several of his fellow clerks.
"No, no," hastily broke in Salter, "nats are spirits, good spirits or bad, who live in the trees; you will hear enough about them before you are a month in Burma. Their worship is the national faith." "But I thought Buddhism " began Shafto, and hesitated. "Oh, yes, ostensibly and ostentatiously, but wait and see." "I am a Catholic," announced the child abruptly.
Interpreting Shafto's envious glance, he said: "You'll excuse me sitting on the charpoy, but I've got entirely out of the use of chairs, and me bones are too stiff to sit doubled up on the floor like a skewered chicken." "Oh, that's all right," said Shafto, who was very sleepy. "I suppose you have just come from Upper Burma?" "Yes, that's the part I most belong to and that suits me.
His mother's flinty attitude and hostile nagging had frozen a naturally affectionate disposition, and Shafto passed several years of his youth without one single ray of woman's love, until generous Mrs. Malone had come forward and installed him in her heart. His usual routine was breakfast at eight, office at nine, lunch twelve-thirty, freedom at six, dinner at seven-thirty.
The Overland girls laughed merrily, and Grace linking an arm into the guide's led her down to the river where the two sat down, Grace to give Joe Shafto friendly advice, and Joe to accept it as she would from no other member of the Overland Riders. In the meantime Tom and Hippy were discussing their plans. They spent a good part of the day doing so.
The doctor looked anxiously at his stock of fuel. "I am afraid our boiler won't hold out much longer," he observed to Willy. "Ask Shafto when he hopes to sight these Auckland Islands he talks of. We have not passed them, I hope." "No fear of that," answered Willy. "Shafto says that we are still nearly two hundred miles from them." "Two hundred miles!" murmured the doctor.
After building a cook fire, Willy ran out into the forest, returning soon thereafter with several large slices of bear meat, from stores that he had safely cached, which he proceeded to fry over the fire while Mrs. Shafto was boiling water for tea and opening cans of beans. The girls threw off their wet garments and sank luxuriously into the browse floor of their lean-to.
"Oh, Mr Shafto, cannot you give us more water?" exclaimed Mrs Twopenny. "We have only had that little tin caseful a-piece the whole of this morning, and the doctor says we must be contented with it." "We are under the doctor's orders on that point," answered Harry, afraid that others might join in the complaint made by the poor lady.
Word Of The Day
Others Looking