Sketches of Our Life At Sarawak
Sketches of Our Life At Sarawak
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Grayling and Mr. Owen, a schoolmaster, also went with us, and a young friend who was put under my charge, and lived with us for some years on account of his health.
For nurse I had an old Malay woman who had taken some children to England from Singapore, and wanted to return. She was a capital sailor, 106 SKETCHES OF OUR LIFE AT SARAWAK.
and always able to carry Mab about however rough the sea was. Nothing could exceed her devotion to the child, but she had contracted a bad habit of always shar...ing the sailor's grog by day, and requiring a tumbler of hot gin and water before she went to bed. This was a great trouble to me, but I never saw her tipsy till we were staying at the Bishop's palace at Calcutta. Ayah, having been in the bazaar buying presents for her children, was brought back lying senseless in a palanquin. The Bishop, who was in the hall when the bearers set the palanquin down, exclaimed, " Oh ! that woman has cholera ! take her away. " However, she was kindly cared for by the servants, and appeared the next day without any shame, bringing " a toy for missy.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
Grayling and Mr. Owen, a schoolmaster, also went with us, and a young friend who was put under my charge, and lived with us for some years on account of his health.
For nurse I had an old Malay woman who had taken some children to England from Singapore, and wanted to return. She was a capital sailor, 106 SKETCHES OF OUR LIFE AT SARAWAK.
and always able to carry Mab about however rough the sea was. Nothing could exceed her devotion to the child, but she had contracted a bad habit of always shar...ing the sailor's grog by day, and requiring a tumbler of hot gin and water before she went to bed. This was a great trouble to me, but I never saw her tipsy till we were staying at the Bishop's palace at Calcutta. Ayah, having been in the bazaar buying presents for her children, was brought back lying senseless in a palanquin. The Bishop, who was in the hall when the bearers set the palanquin down, exclaimed, " Oh ! that woman has cholera ! take her away. " However, she was kindly cared for by the servants, and appeared the next day without any shame, bringing " a toy for missy.
What to read after Sketches of Our Life At Sarawak?
You can find similar books in the "Read Also" column, or choose other free books by Harriette Bunyon Mcdougall to read onlineMoreLess
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