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Updated: May 7, 2025
"We got to be in quarters at six." They were silent a moment. In the distance the guns kept up a continual tomtom sound. "Guess we'll be in that soon," said Small. Chrisfield felt a chill go down his spine. He moistened his lips with his tongue. "Guess it's hell out there," said Judkins. "War ain't no picnic." "Ah doan give a hoot in hell," said Chrisfield.
"These are English letters," for I could distinctly make out the word "man" followed by a "t" and an "h." "Rub it hard, Jack." The grease on the parchment refused to give way to further polishing, however, and remembering a bottle of ammonia I kept for insect bites, I mixed some with kaffir beer and poured it on the head of the tomtom.
"Do you know you are very nearly late? I've been watching out for you for the past ten minutes." "What a waste of time!" said Olga; but she returned his smile, for she could not do otherwise. "No! Why? I had nothing better to do," he assured her. "And my patience is well rewarded. Hope you're keen on music. I've brought my banjo for the Rajah's edification. It's better than a tomtom anyway.
The noise produced by Luigi was like that of a fanatical beater of the tomtom; he knocked and banged and danced against the door, crying out for his passing amusement an adaptation of a popular ballad: "Oh, Barto, Barto! my boot is sadly worn: The toe is seen that should be veiled from sight. The toe that should be veiled like an Eastern maid: like a sultan's daughter: Shocking! shocking!
The tomtom which announced the end of the hour interrupted him. Pentaur ceased speaking with a deep sigh, and for a minute not a scholar moved. At last the poet laid the papyrus roll out of his hand, wiped the sweat from his hot brow, and walked slowly towards the gate of the court, which led into the sacred grove of the temple.
'Yes, in a thick constrained voice. 'Can't you get to sleep? 'No. 'Head hot? 'Throat feeling bulgy? or how? 'Neither, thanks. I don't sleep much, you know. 'Feel pretty bad? 'Pretty bad, thanks. There is a tomtom outside, isn't there?
His mamma never said to him in early youth, 'Why-why, or 'Tomtom, as the case might be, 'that's the wrong hand to hold your flint-scraper in. He grew up to man's estate in happy ignorance of such minute and invidious distinctions between his anterior extremities.
Came a short word of command from Asad and a stir ran through the ranks of the slaves, as they threw forward their weight to bring the oars to the level. Thus a moment, then a second word, the premonitory crack of a whip in the darkness of the gangway, and the tomtom began to beat the time.
Should he go out and harangue the coolie? It started forward again with a savage jerk, and a pin came out of the towels. When this was replaced, a tomtom in the coolie-lines began to beat with the steady throb of a swollen artery inside some brain-fevered skull. Spurstow turned on his side and swore gently. There was no movement on Hummil's part.
Suppose the king, if there was one, and the priest, if there was one and I presume there was, because it was a very ignorant age suppose they had said: "That tomtom is the most miraculous instrument of music that any man can conceive of; that is the kind of music they have in heaven.
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