It is a good one; my sons made it only last year.
"Whom have you with you ?" Stanley had remained a short distance off, while Meinik was talking to his friends.
"He is an old man I joined along the road," he said.

"He is a skilful fisherman; and he has agreed to go with me, if I can get a boat.
"Is there an empty hut ?" "Yes, six of them.

Of course, when the men were taken they carried off the wives and children, as usual, as hostages for their conduct." Meinik nodded.

He felt no surprise, as it was the custom in Burma to hold the women and children of all the men going to the war, as guarantees that their husbands would not desert or show cowardice in battle.

In either event their relatives would be, at once, put to death.
"My companion is tired," he said.