The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-03-05
BIMI
This is One Of Kipling's Best
Short Stories.

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not, and as Hans Breitmann and pass
ed him, dragging our bedding to the
rore-peak of the steamer, he reused
himself and chartered obscenely. He
had been caught somewhere in the Ma
layan Archipelago, and was going to
England to be exhibited at a shilling a
head.
1t would be well for you, mine friend,
If you was a liddle seasick," said Hans
breitmann, pausing by the cage. You
hat too much Ego in your Cosmos"
The orang- outang's arm slid out neg
ligently from between the bars. No one
would have believed that it would make
a sudden snake-like rush at the Ger
mans breast. The thin silk of the sleep
ing suit tore out. Hans stepped back
unconcernedly, to pluck banana from
bunch hanging close to one of the
| boats.
TOO much Ego" said he, peeling the
fruit and offering it TO the Gagged devil,
who was rending the silk to tatters.
If he was out now dere would not be
much of us left hereaboutS," said Hans
lazily. He screams good. See, now,
how shall tame him when he stops
| himself"
There Was pause in the cutlery, and
from Hans mouth came an imitation
of snakes hiss, so perfect that l al.
most sprung to my feet. The sustained
murderous sound ran along the deck,
and the wrenching at the bars ceased.
Inc orang-outang was qual1ing in an
ecstasy Of pure terror.
Dot stop him." said Hans. 81 learned
dot trick in Mogoung Tanjong when
was collecting fiddle monkeys for some
peoples in Berlin. Are you asleep. or
VIII you listen, and / will tell a dale
dot you shall not pelief?"
There is no tale in the wide world
that can't believe" said
GOOD! When was collecting dose
fiddle monkeys-it was in 10 or 80 und
was in der islands of der archipelago
over dere in der dark''-he pointed
southwark to New Guinea generally
,Metn GottW | would sooner collect
life red devils than fiddle monkeys /
was dere for nearly year, und dere |
round man dot was called Bertran
lie was Frenchman, und he was a
good man-naturalist to the bone Dew
SAID he was an escaped convict, but he
was naturalist, und dot was enough
for me. He would call all der life beasts
from der forests, und dey would come.
una dot man, who was king of
beasts tanner men, he had in der house
snush such anoder as dot devil-animal
IN der cage-a great orang -outang dot
tnought he was man. He half found
him when he was a child-der orang-
outang-und he was child and brother
ana opera comique all round to Ber-
tran. He had his room in dot house
not cage, but room-mit bed and
sheets, and he would go to bed and get
up IN der morning and smoke his cigar
tInd eat his dinner nit Bertran und
walk nit him hand-in-h hand, which was
most horrible. Colt! He was not a
beast; he was man, and he talked to
Bertran, und Bertran comprehended
for / have seen dem. Und he was al
ways politeful to me except when I
talk too long to Bertran und say nod
ings at all to him. Den he would pun
me aWay-dis great, dark devil, nit his
enormous paws-shush as if | was a
child; and Bimi, der orang- outang, hat
understood us. both, NIT, his cigar be-
tween his big dog teeth und der blue
gum.
Il was dere year, dere und at der
odor islands-somedimes for monkeys
and sometimes for butterflies und or
chits. One time Bertran says to me dot
he viii be married, because he hat found
a girl dot was goot. Den he go off
counting der girl-she was a half-caste
French girl-very pretty. Half you got
a new light for my cigar? Oof! Very
pretty, Only 1 say: Half you thought
of Bfmi? If he pufis me away when l
talk to you, what will he do to your
wife? He will pull her in pieces If l
was you, Bertran, would gif my wife
for wedding present der stuff figure of
Bimi. By dot time had learned
Something's about her monkey peoples.
Shoot him?' says Bertran. He is your
beast, 1 said; if he was mine he would
be shot now
Den 1 felt at der back of nv neck
der fingers of Bimi. Mein Gott l tell
you dot he talked through dose fingers.
1t was der eaf-and-dumb alphabet all
complete. He slide his hairy arm round
my neck, and he tilt up my chin und
look into my face, shust to see if 1 un-
derstood his talk so well as he under
stood mine.
I" See now dere!' says Bertran und
you would shoot him while he is cud-
ding you? Dot is der Teuton in
graten
but l knew dot / ,had made Bimi
a lifes enemy, because his fingers hat
talk murder through the back of my
neck. Next dime l see Bimi dere was
a pistol in my belt und he touch it
once, and | open der breech to show
him it was loaded. He hat seen der
fiddle monkeys killed in der woods, and
he understood.
80 Bertran he was married, and he
forgot clean about Bimi dot was skip
pin alone on der beach NIT der half
of a human soul in his belly. I was
see him skip, und he took a big bough
und thrash der sand till he hat made
a great hole like a grave. So I says
to Bertran: For any sakes, kill Bimi.
He is mad nit der jealousy
"Beftran hat said: He is not mad
at all. He hat obey and love my wife,
und if she speaks he will get her Slip
pers,' und he looked at his wife across
der room. She was very pretty girl.
Den said to him: Shoot him when
he comes to der house for he hat der
light in his eyes dot means killing-und
killing Bimi come to der house but
dere was no light in his eyes. 1t was
all put away, cunning-so cunning
und he fetch der girl her slippers, and
Bertran turn to me und say: 'Dost
thou know him in nine months more
dan L hat known him in twelve years?
Shall a child stab his fader|
dot next day Bertran came to my
house to help me make some wood cases
for der specimens, und he tell me dot
he hat left his wife q fiddle while init