It is a good line that I have got into.

I shall make a big profit out of it, and have hopes that it will be, to some extent, permanent; for I can get the cattle so cheap in the interior, on the rivers we know, that I can ship them to Calcutta at lower terms than they can buy them in India; and I was as much as told that, if I carried out my present contracts satisfactorily, I should get the supply of the troops there.

Of course, that would not be a very great thing of itself but, as I could work it without trouble in connection with my own business, it would make a handsome addition to the profits." "But how about money, uncle ?" "That is all right, lad.

I had no difficulty, whatever, in getting an advance at Calcutta, on the strength of my contract and upon the guarantee of my agents; so that I am all right, in that respect." "I asked, uncle, because I can let you have eighteen hundred pounds, if you want them." Tom Pearson looked at him in astonishment.
"Why, what on earth have you been doing--robbing the treasury of the King of Ava ?" "No, uncle.

I had a bag of gems given me, by some Burmese bandits.
When I got down here, I took a few of them to a merchant.