having first paid au his debts to and sat alone in the empty house all day and when returned wept the easy tears of age till they cried themselves a week later staggering under a huge bundle of clothes and cooking pots led the old man and woman to the railway station where the bustle and confusion made them we are going back to said to whose sleeve was clinging there are more of us there and here my house is empty he helped into the carriage and turning back said to me i should have been priest of the j life s if there had been ten of us surely we must have been forgotten by our the remnant of the broken colony passed out of the station on their journey south while a turning over the books on the was whistling to himself the ten little boys but the tune sounded as solemn as the dead march it was the of the jews in the of if you consider the of the case it was the only thing that he could do but has been hanged by the neck till he is dead and is dead also three years ago when the steamer was at and the weather was very hot indeed the big fat who fed the second right furnace thirty feet down in the hold got leave to go ashore he departed a boy as they call the he returned the full blooded of � his with a bottle in each hand then he sat on the fore grating eating salt fish and and singing the songs of a far country the food belonged to the or head man of the sailors he had just cooked it for himself turned to borrow some salt and when he came back s dirty black fingers were into the rice a is a person of importance far above a though the draws better pay he sets the chorus of ah when the captain s is pulled up to the he the lead too and sometimes when all the ship is lazy he puts on his muslin and a big red and plays with the passengers children on the quarter deck then the passengers g ve him money and he it all up for an at or or by se life s ho you fat black barrel you re eating my food said in the other that be s where the tongue stops and runs from port said eastward till east is west and the of the islands gossip with the strayed son of monkey face dried s liver i am the and the commander of all this ship take away your and thrust the empty rice plate into s hand beat it into a basin over s head drew his knife and in the leg drew his knife but dropped into the darkness of the hold and through the grating at who was the clean fore deck with his blood only the white moon saw these things for the officers were looking after the and the passengers were tossing in their close ah right said � and went forward to tie up his we will settle the account later on he was a bom in india married once in where his wife had a cigar shop on the road once in to a chinese girl and once in to a woman who sold fowls the english sailor cannot owing to and telegraph marry as as he used to do but native sailors can being by the barbarous inventions of the western savage was a good husband when he happened to remember the existence of a wife but he was also a very good and it is not wise to offend a because he does not forget anything moreover in s case blood had been drawn and food spoiled d the of morning rose with a blank mind he was no longer of but a very hot so he went on deck and opened hb jacket to the morning breeze till a knife came like a flying sh and stuck into the of the cook s half an inch from his right he ran down below before his time trying to remember what he could have said to the owner of the weapon at noon when all the ship s were feeding advanced into their midst and being a placid man with a large regard for his own skin he opened saying men of the ship last night i was drunk and this morning i know that i behaved to some one or another of you who was that man that i may meet him face to face and say that i was measured the distance to s naked breast if he sprang at him he might be tripped up and a blind blow at the chest sometimes only means sh on the breast bone ribs are to between unless the subject be so he said nothing nor did the other their faces immediately dropped all expression as is the custom of the oriental when there is g on the carpet or any chance of trouble looked long at the white he was only an african and could not read characters a big sigh � almost a groan � broke from him and he went back to the the took up the conversation where he had interrupted it they talked of the best methods of cooking rice suffered considerably from lack of fresh air during the run to he only came on deck to breathe when all the world was about and even then a heavy block once dropped from a within a foot life s of his head and an apparently lashed grating on which he set his foot began to turn over with the intention of dropping him on the cargo fifteen feet below and one night the knife dropped from the fo c s le and this 