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This made her think that the elder man was a "towny," and not a frontiersman like the other. As they approached the cabin the elder man stopped, and turning to her, said: "Do you know Indians?" The girl started, and then recovering herself with a quick laugh: "G'lang! there ain't any Injins here!" "Not the kind YOU mean; these are very peaceful.
They enjoyed a fine, full flesh meal in the middle of the day, and then threw themselves down on their cots and sweated and slept till it was cool enough to go out with their 'towny, whose vocabulary contained less than six hundred words, and the Adjective, and whose views on every conceivable question they had heard many times before.
74 Captain, Commodore Horatio Nelson. Captain R.W. Miller. Goliath, Captain Charles Knowles. Excellent, Captain Cuthbert Collingwood. Orion, Captain Sir James Saumarez. Colossus, Captain Geo. Murray. Egmont, Captain John Sutton. Culloden, Captain Thomas Troubridge. Irresistible, Captain Geo. Martin. 64 Diadem, Captain Geo. H. Towny. 38 Minerve, Captain Geo. Cockburn.
They turned the machine-guns on us, and this is what happened: the private Kuzmin and I were together, when suddenly two bullets struck him. He fell, and, losing all sense of distinction, forgetting that I was his officer, he stretched out his arms towards me in a sort of half-conscious way, and cried: 'Towny, bayonet me! You understand?
The fact that he went on eating ham, and said to Clara, "Half a cup!" was proof positive of that mysterious quality called phlegm which had long enabled his country to enjoy the peace of a weedy duck-pond. People said England was becoming degenerate and hysterical, growing soft, and nervous, and towny, and all the rest of it. In his view there was a good deal of bosh about that!
And they were the coming manhood of the nation this inexpressibly distasteful lot of youths! The country had indeed got too far away from 'the Land. And this essential towny commonness was not confined to the classes from which these youths were drawn.
Her companion was a fat, red- cheeked young girl in a towny costume, a straw hat decorated with bright flowers and ribbons, and a string of big coloured beads about her neck. In a few minutes they went out, and when going by me I had a good look at the woman's face, for it was turned towards me with an eager questioning look in her dark eyes and a very friendly smile on her lips.
"Only that it seems funny, if we're getting richer and richer, and yet all the time farther and farther away from the life that every one agrees is the best for health and happiness. Father put it into my head, making me look at the little, towny people in Transham this afternoon. I know I mean to begin at once to learn about farm work." "You?"
And then these travellers, too, passed out of our camp to become, with the man from Beyanst, just pleasant memories. "She'll find mere men unsatisfying after this," the Maluka said in farewell, and a mere man coming in from the north-west before sundown, greeted the Maluka with: "Thought you married a towny," as he pointed with eloquent forefinger at our supper circle.
For he was about the last person one would have thought of associating with fish-catching an exceedingly towny- looking person indeed, one who from his conversation appeared to know nothing outside of his business.
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