In Court and Kampong _ Being Tales and Ske - Sir Hugh Charles Clifford

hâti—sickness of liver—that organ, and not the heart, being regarded as the centre of sensibility. ...

and any reference to it, gives as much offence as does the whisper of the magic words 'Rusty buckles' in th ...

his wife, which were only made more bitter because To’ Kâya mistook a stringy piece of egg, in his ...

his mother-in-law in full flight was too much for To’ Kâya, who probably owed her many grudges, and he at ...

Presently, Ma’ Pek came to look for her husband, and asked To’ Kâya about the fire, and where the children ...

Thence he went to the compound of a pilgrim named Haji Mih, who was engaged in getting his pro ...

no one came, and he laughed aloud and went on down the road till he came to Tŭngku Pa's house. Tŭngk ...

'O Tŭngku! Be pleased to come forth if thou desire to avenge the death of Tŭngku Long, thy cous ...

any of them. At last the Sultân said: 'Well, the day has dawned, why does no one go forth ...

No one spoke, and Tŭngku Dâlam, cursing them roundly, sent for about forty guns, and, leading the men himsel ...

all this because he had had words with his wife, and, having gone further than he had intended in the b ...

Footnotes: [10] Pĕn-âkut pâhit. ...

THE FLIGHT OF CHÊP, THE BIRD When my foe is in my hands, When before me pale he stands, When he finds ...

the camp is pitched, has been reaped painfully and laboriously in the native fashion, each ...

No man can say how ancient is this custom, nor yet the beginnings in which it had its origin. Does it date back ...

it, never probably occurred to Chêp, and all she waited for was a fitting time at which to elope with h ...

country which is still exclusively inhabited by the aboriginal tribes. It was to semi-wild Sâkai such as these ...

experience. Sooner or later the importunate longing for the jungle, which is born in the hearts of all forest dweller ...

little naked son pattered along at his heels, holding a tin containing bait in his tiny hands. The boy croo ...

replaced by that look of perfect rest and peace which is only to be seen in the countenance of a ...