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CHAPTER XI--THE PORT ADAMS CROWD
19/21

Come on, Miss Lackland, bang 'm just once.

It will be the crowning indignity." "Ugh, he's too dirty.

I'd rather give him a bath.

Here, you, Adamu Adam, give this devil-devil a wash.

Soap and water! Fill that wash-tub.
Ornfiri, run and fetch 'm scrub-brush." The Tahitians, back from their fishing and grinning at the bedlam of the compound, entered into the joke.
"_Tambo_! _Tambo_!" shrieked the cannibals from the trees, appalled at so awful a desecration, as they saw their chief tumbled into the tub and the sacred dirt rubbed and soused from his body.
Joan, who had gone into the bungalow, tossed down a strip of white calico, in which old Telepasse was promptly wrapped, and he stood forth, resplendent and purified, withal he still spat and strangled from the soap-suds with which Noa Noah had gargled his throat.
The house-boys were directed to fetch handcuffs, and, one by one, the Lunga runaways were haled down out of their trees and made fast.


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