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Treacher's husband after thirty-odd years of married life. The Commandant, too, knew something of Mrs. Treacher ... an obstinate woman, not to say pig-headed.
Colours, and indeed all materials can he got from Treacher & Co., Bombay, and also from the branch of the Army and Navy Stores there. Paper is, however, difficult to get in good condition, being frequently spoilt by mildew. It is almost impossible to get anything satisfactory in the way of painting materials in Kashmir itself; therefore I say: Be well supplied before leaving home.
"You put yourself to some inconvenience on our account," pursued Miss Gabriel; "and and if you won't mind accepting " Miss Gabriel held out the smaller coin by way of finishing the sentence. "What's that for?" asked Mrs. Treacher. "The circumstances were so unusual, and in a way ha, ha! so amusing " "Oh!" Mrs. Treacher interrupted. "Unusual, was they? I'm glad to hear it."
He and his chief boatman mounted first, with a little man named Pengelly, a custom's official, who happened to make one of the lifeboat's crew for the Milo had come from foreign, and thus a show was made of complying with the Queen's regulations. But the whole crowd trooped up close at their heels, and with the crowd clambered Sergeant Archelaus and Sergeant Treacher.
Medlin, he ran staggering up the slope to the gateway. "Mrs. Treacher!" he panted, dumping down his burden, "I er it so happens that I have no small change about me." "Me either," said Mrs. Treacher, idiomatically, and bent over the basket. "What's this?" "You will forgive my mentioning it, Mrs. Treacher; but these good fellows very likely expected a sixpence or so for their trouble.
"For what work, then, do they pay you?" she asked, bitterly. "For none," he answered, but without resentment. "And excuse me " he went on, fumbling in his pocket, and producing a sovereign, which he tendered to her, "but your mention of pay reminds me to return you this, which Mrs. Treacher has handed to me.
He had practical reasons, too, for such a prayer; but of these he was not thinking as he turned there by the windmill, and spied Sergeant Treacher approaching along the ridge, and trundling a wheel-barrow full of manure.
The lantern shone also against the knees of Archelaus, and lit up the check-board pattern of the eleemosynary trousers. It was a provocative pattern, but the Commandant heeded it not.... He looked up from Sergeant Archelaus' knees to Sergeant Archelaus' face, and past it to the face of Sergeant Treacher, now a little more distinct.
"There's a certain amount of sea running, sir, out beyond the point." "I observed as much this evening." "Very good, sir." Something in the Commandant's voice forbade further argument. They were afloat almost as soon as the coastguard, and a full five minutes before the life-boat. Sergeant Archelaus pulled stroke, and Sergeant Treacher bow.
Besides Mr. Low's fruit garden, the only other European attempt at planting was made by my Cousin, Dr. TREACHER, Colonial Surgeon, who purchased an outlying island and opened a coco-nut plantation. I regret to say that in neither case, owing to the decline of the Colony, was the enterprise of the pioneers adequately rewarded.
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