In short, I became a sort of Chief Justice--not an easy office as it involved the acquirement of the native law which was intricate and peculiar, especially in matrimonial cases.
At these oppressive activities Bastin looked on with a gloomy eye.
"You fellows seem very busy," he said one evening; "but I can find nothing to do.

They don't seem to want me, and merely to set a good example by drinking water or tea while you swallow whisky and their palm wine, or whatever it is, is very negative kind of work, especially as I am getting tired of planting things in the garden and playing policeman round the wreck which nobody goes near.

Even Tommy is better off, for at least he can bark and hunt rats." "You see," said Bickley, "we are following our trades.

Arbuthnot is a lawyer and acts as a judge.

I am a surgeon and I may add a general--a very general--practitioner and work at medicine in an enormous and much-neglected practice.