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Updated: June 19, 2025
The sight of them gave her a weird, homesick feeling. She had seen things so like them in India. One of the things Miss Minchin had taken from her was a carved teakwood desk her father had sent her. "They are beautiful things," she said; "they look as if they ought to belong to a nice person. All the things look rather grand. I suppose it is a rich family."
He knew the men were his friends. And so he who had once been a wild baby elephant, grew to be a tame, big strong beast, who could carry heavy teakwood logs on his tusks, and pile them in great heaps near the river, where they were loaded upon great ships. Umboo did not know the boats were ships, but they were, and soon he was to have a ride in one.
"Then tell me you trust me," he returned, leaning toward her. She raised her eyes frankly to his own. "I do I do trust you, but I do not trust myself. Now keep your promise I insist on it. Believe me, it is better wiser for us both." "Come, then," he said, laying his hand tenderly on her shoulder it had grown dark in the teakwood room "let me tell you a story a fairy tale."
In large alcoves well-dressed Chinamen reclined on tables of marble and teakwood, filling and refilling the opium pipe with an infinity of patience that if otherwise applied might have led to greatness instead of dreams. "These men are just on exhibition," said Stone, contemptuously. "Wait till I show you the real thing down in the slime.
This steamboat was exactly like a decked scow. On the deck, there were two little teakwood houses, with doors and windows. The boiler was in the fore-end, and the machinery right astern. Over the whole there was a light roof, supported on stanchions. The funnel projected through that roof, and in front of the funnel a small cabin built of light planks served for a pilot-house.
He pointed to the giant teakwood that Astro had slept under. The three spacemen saw the makeshift sleeping bag at the same time. "Major! Look!" cried Tom and raced to the base of the tree. "It's Astro's, all right," said Connel, examining the woven bag. "I wonder if he was here when those two things were going after each other." "Yes, sir," said Roger in a choked whisper, "he was."
She turned to johnnycakes, honey and milk, only half hearing, in her preoccupation with the injustice that had overtaken her, the conversation about the table. Her gaze strayed over the walls of the breakfast room, where water color drawings of vessels, half models of ships on teakwood or Spanish mahogany boards, filled every possible space.
The next point in our progress was old Pagan, where we saw many pagodas, but we were told that there were as many as a thousand in the days of her prosperity. On the river we constantly passed shipping of various kinds, sometimes huge rafts of teakwood propelled by natives, mostly devoid of attire; the peculiar Burman paddy boats of old Egyptian style are used for transporting unhulled rice.
The walls were covered with Chinese silk and heavy panels of embroidery. A Chinese banner, with a great dragon on it, hung over the mantel-piece. The furniture was elaborately carved teakwood. The girls at once glanced around for the Chinese minister's daughter. But she was no where to be seen. Instead, Peter Dillon, Bab's first chance acquaintance in Washington, was smiling a welcome. Mrs.
"And how is Miss Margaret?" he asked, as Blakeman followed him upstairs with his gun and great-coat. Dr. Sperry's villainous verdict still rankled in the butler's mind, and at first he had half decided to tell Thayor all he had overheard in the teakwood room. Then the pain it would give his master restrained him.
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