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Headmaster Second Educational Section, Third Cover Page BLACKWOOD'S MAGAZINE. No. MCCCXXXIV. DECEMBER 1926. A JOB OF WORK. VOL. CCXX. BY HUMFREY JORDAN. THE morning after Fowler, the Manager of Brown, Price, & Co. in Sin Byu, had piloted the Swedish ship Gustave Adolphe to a reasonably workable anchorage, he awoke to the realisation that that first step in the job ahead of him, although it had been unpleasantly strenuous, was almost certainly the least difficult. As he shaved himself, this realisation did not please him. That the management of his Company in London regarded him as work-shy irritated him; that they were apparently determined to set aside his careful presentation of facts and arguments, airily accusing him of creating difficulties, made him feel hopeless; that, in spite of his vehement protest, they had sent him a ship to load with logs during the height of the monsoon, and that they had permitted that ship to VOL. CCXX.-NO. MCCCXXXIV. arrive seven days before the date arranged, made him solidly and obstinately furious. So he prepared for another arduous day with his temper pretty raw; and when he had finished dressing, and had gone out on to the verandah for his tea, and found that his boy had put the tray on a table whose legs were not standing in bowls of water and that ants swarmed in the biscuit box, he called the idiot who served him, and gave tongue with decent fluency. It also appeared to him as a minor annoyance that Cruikshank, the Forest Manager, with the laudable intention of allowing him an extra halfhour in bed, had gone down to the depot at The-Taung alone, leaving a chit to say that he would send the car back. Consequently Fowler sat on his verandah waiting, staring out at a steady downpour of tropic 2 D |