Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1929-05-30
Nos then. yours" said Mayama laughing. Very good, hey"

left the sunny Island of Ceylon for
ever. He left it with a headache, the
result of all the farewell dinners the
kind people of Colombo gave him as a
Send-off.
Anon was ten. Mayama moved down
to the south Of the island because she
had an idea it would be good to give
him some schooling and apprentice him
to a fisherman at Mount Lavinia. In
time he might grow rich enough to own
a catamaran of his own, and where
could a better life be found, than that
of merely pulling out of the sea such
fish as Allah in his mercy has placed
therein?
Mayama brought with her from the
hills one clock, one rocking chair, and
the white envelope with the arms of the
steamship company on the back OF 1t,
and a single word written on the other
side in neat Greek handwriting with
characteristics all its own.
1t was a. about the age of ten that
Anon began to grow very awkward. He
did not get on with boys of his own
age, nor was he liked by the fishermen
to whom Mayama apprenticed him. He
had a naughty manner and lordly bear
ing above his station. A conceited
%yOungster he was, prone to behave as
if the universe belonged to him. More
than a little inclined to regard him.
self as a Napoleon amongst fishermen,
when he was but a beginner. He ap-
peared to suffer from a strange con-
viction that nothing would do for him
but the best.
One morning there came a large gold
en- and white woman, with a little boy.
Anon vas gathering shells. By and by
the little boy joined him and held out
his hand for the shells.
Anon put the half cocoanut shell in
which he collected them, behind his
back. The large golden and white
woman approached, and tried to take
the shells from him, handing him q
rupee. Anon took the rupee and threw
it at her, and knocked the little boy
down.
Uproar on the golden sands of Mount
Layina. Apologize salaaming fisher
men, loading the little white boy with
shells. Mayama weeping.
I'm truth you will have the police af-
ter us, with your tricks" They took
him away and beat him, and shut him
up in the cooking hut at the back of
his mothers house. He was quite hap
by there in the still, hot darkness
Wonderful visions came to him when
he was alone. A consciousness of not
being as other men, of being different
from them, above them.
Anon became In swift succession fiji
teen, sixteen, seventeen, but he did not
become any more amenable. He quar-
relied with his contemporaries, and af-
fronted his superiors by his grand say
ings and lordly On his sew
enteenth birthday his mother turned
him out.
GO and find work in Colombo, for ]
cannot keep you here. Too much fight
ing and quarreling all over the place
In the barracks are many English gen.
tlemen seeking servants. Go and work
at this job. Perhaps there it will be
well with you"
She opened the wooden box she kept
concealed under the floor boarding, and
gave him a ten rupee note. She also
gave him an envelope with the coat OF
arms of the steamship company on the
back of 1t, and on the face q single
word written in neat Greek handwrit-
ing that had characteristics all its own
Take also this. 1t is the English
writing OF your name" said Mayama