" A neat
little tray, made from the end of a packing-case and a few laths,
interested him in particular. "You'll get him dodged for ideas one of
these days," he said, alluding to the Maluka's ingenuity, and when, a day
or two later, I broke the spring of my watch and asked helplessly,
"However was I going to tell the time till the waggons came with the
clock?" Dan felt sure I had set an unsolvable problem.
"That 'ud get anybody dodged," he declared; but it took more than that to
"dodge" the Maluka's resourcefulness. He spent a little while in the sun
with a compass and a few wooden pegs, and a sundial lay on the ground
just outside the verandah.
Dan declared it just "licked creation," and wondered if "that 'ud settle
'em," when I asked for some strong iron rings for a curtain. But the
Dandy took a hobble chain to the forge, and breaking the links asunder,
welded them into smooth round rings.
The need for curtain rings was very pressing, for, scanty as it was, the
publicity of our wardrobe hanging in one corner of the reception room
distressed me, but with the Dandy's rings and a chequered rug for
curtain, a corner wardrobe was soon fixed up.
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