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He did not speak for some moments, but took up a position whence he could see the children at their play, and best watch the little washerman, on whom he intended to thrust a proposition that had been revolving in his mind some time. He chewed his tobacco steadily, while his expression went through many changes. At last he drew his shaggy brows together and eyed his victim with shrewd suspicion.
Kong Sam Kee, the Calistoga washerman, was entrusted with the affair; and from day to day it languished on, with protestations on our part and mellifluous excuses on the part of Kong Sam Kee. At length, about half-past eight of our last evening, with the waggon ready harnessed to convey us up the grade, the washerman, with a somewhat sneering air, produced the boy.
Out of the six nurses, one has died and three others have had enteric. Of the five dressers, two have had severe enteric. The wardmaster has spent a fortnight in bed with veldt sores. The washerman has enteric. Of the eighteen orderlies, one is dead, and eight others are down with enteric. So that out of a total of thirty-four we have had seventeen severe casualties fifty per cent. in nine weeks.
So devouringly did he persevere in his studies, and in his exertions to excel, that he never remained a moment unoccupied at home or abroad. The development of his talents and genius suggested to him an inquiry who he was, and how he came into the house of a washerman; and his foster-mother, in compliance with his entreaties, described to him the manner in which he was found.
Mr Hodson and I intend coming to live at Goobbe, and then we will teach all the people the way to heaven. I was not much impressed with what he said about the Christian Scriptures, but replied, `When Mr Hodson comes, I hope I shall be employed by him as his washerman?" In April, 1837, Mr and Mrs Hodson went to live at Goobbe.
It seemed extraordinary that the quaint words, the curious phrases I had learnt during our exile at the Pescadores Islands by sheer dint of dictionary and grammar book, without attaching the least sense to them should mean anything. But so it seemed, however, for I was at once understood. I wish in the first place to speak to one M. Kangourou, who is interpreter, washerman, and matrimonial agent.
Call himself Dubash look in dictionary, and no such word in English language." "It means a washerman, I suppose," observed Price. "No, sir," answered the man for himself, with a graceful bow, "not a washerman, but at same time get all your clothes washed.
And then he removed the other difficulty by paying all the marriage expenses himself. With this uncle we lived many years in Goobbe; and when he became an old man, I managed his farm for him, and at the same time I carried on my work as village washerman." On the 1st of September, 1836, Goobbe received the first visit of a Protestant Missionary.
But it must be confessed that this desirable result is attained at much cost to the garments themselves. The profession of washerman, or dhobi as he is called, like most other occupations in India, is chiefly an hereditary one. It is very difficult for anyone outside the dhobi caste to get a footing in the profession.
They're trying to make the town!" "Ketchem, more horse run behind," answered Sing, listening intently, his slanting eyes glittering. "Sing, you go and see what " "Can do! You get that boy, make 'em wash, alle same. He no good! You look see?" Joe turned to spy the frightened deputy washerman wriggling under the verandah. "Bime-by I kill 'um," remarked Sing, composedly. "No got time now.
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