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And there, after a while, descends the Tok Emma man, the officer commanding a trench mortar battery, and is given perchance a whiskey and water, and sits on the best empty box that we have to offer, and lights one of our cigarettes. ``There's going to be a bit of a strafe at 5.30, he says. What Happened on the Night of the Twenty-Seventh
They had three Tok Emmas working in that battalion front line, and the British batteries did not quite know where they were, and there were eight of them looking. Fritz Groedenschasser, standing in that unseemly mud, greatly yearned for them to find soon what they were looking for.
Merriman's bearers were at hand with his palanquin; he got into it; the men set off at a swinging pace, warning the bystanders with their cry of "Tok! Tok!" and Desmond walked by the side of the chair, amused to watch the self-important airs of the peon who went in front.
When we put the question to them, whether they were willing, that we should come and dwell with them, and instruct them, they all answered with a loud and cheerful voice. "Kaititse tok, Kaititse tok! O do come soon, and live with us, we will all gladly be converted, and live with you."
And presently nothing was to be heard but the steady ticking of the clock on the mantel. Then Mr. Jeminy, for once, could find nothing to say. It seemed to him that instead of the clock's ticking, he heard the footsteps of death in the house, on the stair . . . tik, tok, tik, tok . . . And he sighed, with sadness and horror, "Ah, my friend," he thought, "are you as frightened as I am?"
"Tok," said Leo; "Makitok. Everything almost ends in tok or tuk hereabouts." "Who, and what, is this man?" asked the Captain. "No one seems to know precisely. His origin has been lost in the mists of antiquity. His first forefather so tradition styles him seems, like Melchisedec, to have had no father or mother, and to have come from no one knows where.
"If that bird goes on like that I'll speak to the guard," said Mr. Morton with affected anger. "Polly mustn't talk," said the old lady waking up. "Tok, tok, tok, tok," screamed the parrot. Then the old lady threw a shawl over him and again went to sleep. "If I behaved badly I beg your pardon," said Mary.
They ended by taking it, and I wager were not yet clear of the compound before they were sure they had decided wrong. Another time they had been given each a liberal cup of coffee, and Nan Tok' with difficulty and disaffection made an end of his.
They reversed the parts indeed, down to the least particular; it was the husband who showed himself the ministering angel in the hour of pain, while the wife displayed the apathy and heartlessness of the proverbial man. When Nei Takauti had a headache Nan Tok' was full of attention and concern. When the husband had a cold and a racking toothache the wife heeded not, except to jeer.
I was informed of it by the men several times before I paid any attention to it, thinking it was thunder most probably which they had mistaken at length walking in the plains the other day I heard this noise very distictly, it was perfectly calm clear and not a cloud to be seen, I halted and listened attentively about an hour during which time I heard two other discharges and tok the direction of the sound with my pocket compass.
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