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Chase, after a moment's hesitation, took it. Mr. Teak, still holding his friend's hand, piloted him to a neighbouring hostelry. "It was my mistake, Alf," he said, shaking his head, "but it wasn't my fault. It's a mistake anybody might ha' made." "Have you found out who took it?" inquired Mr. Chase, regarding him suspiciously. Mr. Teak gulped and nodded.
We buried 'em in the teak and I kept... But he was a friend of you two gentlemen, you see." Mr. Hooper brought his hand away from his waistcoat-pocket empty. Pritchard covered his face with his hands for a moment, like a child shutting out an ugliness. "And to think of her at Hauraki!" he murmured "with 'er 'air-ribbon on my beer. 'Ada, she said to her niece... Oh, my Gawd!"...
"What dat do wid de 'teak, " said the old black, testily. "Silence! How old are you, cook?" "'Bout ninety, dey say," he gloomily muttered. And have you have lived in this world hard upon one hundred years, cook, and don't know yet how to cook a whale-steak?" rapidly bolting another mouthful at the last word, so that that morsel seemed a continuation of the question. "Where were you born, cook?"
The larger examples of Indian carved woodwork are of teak; the finest and most characteristic specimens within the writer's knowledge are the two folding doors which were sent as a present to the Indian Government, and are in the Indian Museum. They are of seventeenth century work, and are said to have enclosed a library at Kerowlee.
Its walls were panelled with figured teak, a rich carpet made the footfall noiseless, an antique Venus stood upon a marble pedestal in the corner, and over the mantelpiece hung a fine portrait by Gainsborough, that of a certain Miss Aylward, a famous beauty in her day, with whom, be it added, its present owner could boast no connection whatsoever.
"And suppose I had died first? Or suppose you had died sudden? This is what comes of deceitfulness and keeping things from your husband. Now somebody has stole it." Mrs. Teak bent her head and sobbed again. "I I had just been out for for an hour," she gasped. "When I came back I fou fou found the washhouse window smashed, and " Sobs choked her utterance. Mr. Teak, lost in admiration of Mr.
"I met Bert Adams yesterday," he said, slowly. "It took three pints afore he told me, but I got it out of 'im at last. My missis took it herself." Mr. Chase put his mug down with a bang. "What?" he gasped. "The day after she found you with your head up the chimbley," added Mr. Teak, mournfully. "She's shoved it away in some bank now, and I shall never see a ha'penny of it.
"Alf's very late," said Mr. Teak, thickly. "Is he?" said his wife, dully. "Very late," said Mr. Teak. "I can't think Ah, there he is!" He took a deep breath and clenched 'his hands together. By the time Mr. Chase came into the room he was able to greet him with a stealthy wink. Mr. Chase, with a humorous twist of his mouth, winked back. "We've 'ad a upset," said Mr. Teak, in warning tones.
Several sorts have been planted...all over Bengal, and would soon furnish a very large share of the timber used in the country. The sissoo, the Andaman redwood, the teak, the mahogany, the satin-wood, the chikrasi, the toona, and the sirisha should be principally chosen.
Teak out was almost as difficult as to persuade a snail to leave its shell, but he succeeded on two or three occasions, and each time she added something to her wardrobe. The assistant fortune-hunter had been in residence just a month when Mr. Teak, returning home one afternoon, stood in the small passage listening to a suppressed wailing noise proceeding from upstairs.
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