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Two Hundred and Fifty Thousand Years!.
"You seem to have made the best of your time, old fellow," said Bickley in rather a sour voice.
"I never knew people begin to call each other by their Christian names so soon," added Bastin, looking at me with a suspicious eye.
"I know no other," I said.
"Perhaps not, but at any rate you have another, though you don't seem to have told it to her.

Anyway, I am glad they are gone, for I was getting tired of being ordered by everybody to carry about wood and water for them.

Also I am terribly hungry as I can't eat before it is light.

They have taken most of the best fruit to which I was looking forward, but thank goodness they do not seem to care for pork." "So am I," said Bickley, who really looked exhausted.