The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1899-05-19
BIMI.
By RUDYARD KIPLING.

Gu nun, uIdSBluB OuI DeuulnR 10 lne
fore peak of the steamer, he reused him
self and chartered obscenely. He had
been caught somewhere in the Malayan
archipelago and was going to England
to be exhibited at shilling head.
1T would be well for you, mine
friend, if you was n fiddle seasick,
said Hans Breitmann. pausinR by the
cage. You hat too much ego in your
cosmos.
The orang outang' arm slid out neg
ligently from between the bars. No one
would have believed that it would make
sudden snakelike rush at the Ger
man breast The thin silk of the sleep
ing suit tore out. Hans stepped back
unconcernedly to pluck a banana from
a 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 tat
tiers.
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 a pause in the cutlery, and
from Hans mouth came an imitation
Of "A snakes hiss, so perfect that al
most sprang TO my feet. The sustained
murderous sound ran along the deck,
and the wrenching at the bars ceased
The orang-outang was quaking in an
ecstasy of pure terror.
dot stop him, said Hans. II
learned dot trick in Mogoung Tanjong
when | was collecting fiddle monkeys
for some peoples in Berlin. Are you
asleep. or will you listen, und | will
tell n dale dot you shall not pelief2"
There is no tale in the wide world
that l can't believe, | said.
Good When | was collecting dose
fiddle monkeys--it was in 1879 or 1880
-und | was n der islands of der archi-
pelago, over dere in der dark he
pointed southwark to New Guinea gen
erally-''meiD Gottl | would sooner
collect life red devils than fiddle mon
keys. | was dere for nearly year, und
dere | found man dot was called Ber-
tran He was "A Frenchman, und he
was a good man naturalist to der bone
Dey said he vas an escaped convict, but
he was Il naturalist, und dot was enough
for me He would call all der life beasts
from der forests, und dey would come.
"Und dot man, who was king of
beasts tanner men, he had in der house
shust such Gnoder as dot devil animal
in der cage a great oraEg- outang de-
thought he was a man. He hat found
him when he was child-der orang-
outang he was child und brother
md opera comique all round to Ber
tran. He had his room in dot house
not a cage, bat room--mit bed ind
sheets, und he would go to bed und &c:
up in der morning und smoke his cigar
und eat his dinner nit Bertran una
walk init him hand in hand, which was
most horrible. Colt He was not
beast He was a man. und he talked to
Bertran, und Bertran comprehended,
for | hat seen dem. Und he was al
ways politeful to me except when talk
too long to Bertran und say nodings a.
all TO him. Den he would pull me away
dis great. dark devil, init his enor-
nous paws-shust as if | was child.
und Blmi der orang-outang, hat I'M
derstood us both, nit his cigar between
his big dog teeth ind der blue gum
81 was dere a year-dere und at der
oder islands sometimes for monkeys
und sometimes for butterflies ind or
chits. one time Bertran says to me dot
he will 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 new light for my cigar Oof
Very pretty Only 1 say 'Haf you
thought of Bimif If he pulls me away
when / talk to you. what will he do to
your wife? He will pull her in pieces.
If | was you, Bertran, l would gif my
wife for wedding present der stuff fig
ure of Bimi. BY dot time | had learned
Something's about der monkey peoples.
Shoot himY says Bertran. He is your
beast, | said. If he was mine he would
be shot now
Den felt at der back of my neck
der fingers of Bimi. Mein Colt tell
you dot he talked through dose fingers,
1t was der deaf und dumb alphabet all
complete. He slide his hairy arm round
my neck, und he tilt up my chin und
look into my face, shust to see if | un-
derstood his talk so well as he under
stood mine
''See now derel says Bertran. 'Und
you would shoot him while he is cud-
ding Your Dot is der Teuton migrate
"But | knew dot hat made Bimi a
life S enemy, because his fingers hat talk
murder through der back of my neck
Next dime | see Bimi dere was pistol
in my belt, und he touch it once, und |
open der breech to show him it was
loaded. He hat seen der fiddle monkeys
| killed in der woods und he understood.
$50 Bertran he was married, und he
forgot clean about Bimi dot was skip
! piug aIoue on ueI Deacn NIT der halt OF
a human soul in his belly. was see
him skip, und he took big bough und
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