Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-01-20
By ]. CUTCLIFFE HYNE.

Grand Canary with it I'm hanged if don't
dash it amongst the factory boys here and
have one faring jamboree before we part
company
"Oh. George. you are good.'
Don't you fret about my goodness, old
lady I'm a pretty bad fellow at the bot
out of your sight. Man has to. you know,
with the girl he's engaged. to. It's only
pie wing the game. New you let me go, and
I'll just slip across to the frau and barney
her old Dutch skipper into giving you the
best room he's got to fight the cockroaches
in
It was on Thursday that the Frau Pobst
steamed away back down the muddy creeks
laden with of the richest cargoeS that
one single factory had ever collected In
West Africa, and on that same day Carter
set off into the bush. Kate and Laura We're
i to brave the terrors of the steamer together
as far as the islands, and they found the
boat even more unspeakable than they had
ina gined her from the outrageous descrip-
tons of Captain Image and Mr. Balgarnie:
Now, as regards The matter of that eco,
Carter. to put the matter bluntly, had lied.
With the King of Okky doing what he
could to keep the countryside IN a fer-
ment. to so IN into the bush even with
strong party, and well provided, was risky.
| To go with empty pockets and with no
following seemed very little short of suicide
But Carter refused tn 1t in this light.
I'm tough" he told himself. and I've
worked up a certain reputation for ju-ju. If
] use my wits l shall get through and be
successful. | absolutely refuse to die here
in Africa. I've promised to marry Laura,
and let it cost what it may, I'm going to do
it. | must; I've promised and, besides.
she's absolutely no other prospect before
her But l do wish TO goodness I'd decent
| shotgun. I'm no Kind of hand with this
badly balanced Ninchester.'
So, with high courage, he addressed
himself To departure. and invited White
Man's-Trouble with the promise of goods,
lands, goats, wives. guns anu the other
things that go to make up krooboy com
potency, to accompany him. 1t was without
surprise that he received a fat refusal.
20 Carter said his servant, Il no fit for
lib for bush. | got mother palaver too
much-important here at factory. Dem head
man of factory boys say to me, 'Sar. you
been stand y-at-crane boy on steamah?
An | say. 'Slr. | plenty much too-g good ed
ucate. An lie say to me, 'Sar. you fit for
lib here and take dem job of second head
man.? An | say to him. 'Sar, fit Car
ter. if lib for bush with you. an let Okky-
men sp-,:r me, an leopards chop me, dam
fool"
You're cheerful animal If you think
you are more likely 10 get an archbishopric
| by STAYING here. by all means stay. Hope
yOu'n like the Dutchmen when they come
White-Man s-TrOuble crooked bunch of
fingers, ANA scratched his ribs. 20 Carter,
dem Dutchmen all-e-same bush-English-
men,"
you've got it in once. I've no doubt
Dem Dutchman he no have much
savvy an Englshman?'
Nowhere near. They wouldn't have
chucked up the factory in the first instance
if they had and in the second no English
man would have bought it back again at
such an absurd figure they were fools
enough to pay Missy Kate
20 Carter?"
"Well?'
Il fit for steal smal-small sometimes
from Englishmen?"
Il can guarantee that, you scamp
Then. said White Man s-Trouble tri
umphantly. Il fit for steal plenty -much-big
from Dutchman, an he no savvy."
You'll taste abundance of chiquot, my
lad"
The Krooboy snapped piebald thumb
and finger. Il take chiquot from English
man. not from bush Englishman. If he
fog me with chiquot l put ju-ju on him
He picked up an empty bottle and handled
it thoughtfully. 'Ju-ju, if dem Dutchmen
give ne chiquot."
"Of the powGered-glass variety in his
morning sausage" said Carter thought
fully. We'll. it would be no use warning
the poor devils. because. in the first place
they wouldn't believe me and in the sec