Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-08-04

aggregation.
As result of my years of as
ISOLATION with Professor Collett
l early acquired a prediction
for the skulls of other people, and
when day my footsteps
dered within the baricade of the Whoorah capital
where Old Man Mooraballyma lived my attention
attracted by the array of skulls that decorated
the tops of many of his barr1cade poles.
In looking the collection noticed several speci
that presented peculiar abnormates to size,
shape unilaeral symmetrical development, suture
formations ETC. 1t that others than myself had
admired the collection, though probably from other
motives and when | mentioned to Mooraballyma that
should like to have the privilege of picking few spec
from off his barrlcade the old rascal merely smiled
and remarked that others had been possessed of that
desire, adding that most of them desired to add
his to the collection.
"When you want dem heads, Daddy, you come take
UNI, time quick We have plenty big fight. A1ebbe
you take um mebbe put your head on barricade."
There two unusually large skulls that
mented the gateposs of the barricade and amount
of Jolying, caolng, barterng bulldozng could in
duce the old chiealn to give up these prizes These
crania, subsequently, learned had once adorned the
shoulders of of the rabid and ferocious of
Mooraballyma's enemies. and he had put them upon
his gateposts warning to Others and as trophies of
his prowess
A BOUT year after had acquired this yearlng
for these gatepost ornaments small band OF
Whoorahs went the rampage and encountered a set
back which disastrous to the lives of the entire
crowd, including their leader, who happened to be
Mooraballyma, IT, nephew. of NJ, ST. Gradually it
leaked out that the active factor in the demise of the
junior was of mission boys, named Seefasday,
and that he had been aided and allotted by repeating
rifle which my individual property Consequently,
the inference drawn that l was implicated in the
incident.
Old Man Mooraballyma became peevish and resent
full Ever since their beginning the relations existing
between Mooraballyma and myself had been those of
armed neutrality The old man knew that OF the
mission station had for him, that OPP
posed to him and all that he represented and tolerated
him only SO long as he behaved himself according to
standards of decency.
known indulge in Intoxicating liquors and become
bolSerouS of action voice. but because of his exalted
position among the natives he assumed arrogance
that occasionally became oppressive and uncomfortable.
And such occasions it had been found necessary
the obstreperous individual because of the de-
moralizing effect his conduct had upon the mission
school children
THIS removal usually accomplished by dipo-
matte methods; but day were "frozen stiff"
by the adopted by Parson Jones' Jones then
a newcomer to our station, young and husky Acru
native from Sierra Leone where he had been educated
IN the Government schools at Freetown and had I'M
bbed and saturated his system with the doctrine that
British citizen the OF and the
OF most of the genus Homo. To him Moorabalyma
represented by the mathematical symbol Conse-
quenty when day the old rascal started to display
some OF his dloSyncrasies in way that considered
preudlcal TO the atmosphere of the mission station,
Mr. Jones peremptoriy ordered Mooraballyma to @Shut
up" And when the addressee displayed evidences of
becoming refractory Jones committed further lese
majesty by grabbing the offender by the nape of the
neck and making him walk Spanish" to the pathway
down the HILL where he administered parting kick to
accelerate the royal departure
Such gnoniny had before been thrust upon a
native King, not upon any minor chieftain, and
the of Noorabavmas humiliation spread like