CHAPTER XII 

THE GOLD HOUSE 

"How you like Asiki-land, Major?" asked Jeekie, who had followed him and was now leaning against a wall fanning himself feebly with his great hand. "Funny place, isn't it, Major? I tell you so before you come, but you no believe me." 

"Very funny," answered Alan, "so funny that I want to get out." 

"Ah! Major, that what eel say in trap where he go after lob-worm, but he only get out into frying pan after cook skin him alive-o. Ah! here come cook--I mean Asika. She only stop shut up those stiff 'uns, who all love lob-worm one day. Very pretty woman, Asika, but thank God she not set cap at me, who like to be buried in open like Christian man." 

"If you don't stop it, Jeekie," replied Alan in a concentrated rage, "I'll see that you are buried just where you are." 

"No offence, Major, no offence, my heart full and bubble up. I wonder what Miss Barbara say if she see you mooing and cooing with dark-eyed girl in gold snake skin?" 

Just then the Asika arrived and by way of excuse for his flight, Alan remarked to her that the treasure-hall was hot. 

"I did not notice it," she answered, "but he who is called my husband, Mungana, says the same. The Mungana is guardian of the dead," she explained, "and when he is required so to do, he sleeps in the Place of the Treasure and gathers wisdom from the spirits of those Munganas who were before him." 
Who did Jeekie ask a question?
What did he say?
Does he talk properly?
Did Alan find it funny?
Who was a pretty?
Is he Christian?
What does Asika do?
Who got upset?
What did he threaten?
Who should he be concerned about?
What would she object to?
what was the girls eyes like?
what was she wearing?
Who arrived next>
what did she hear was hot?
who said it?
Whats her husbands name?
What does he guard?
where does he sleep?
Does he gather wisdom?
Major
"How you like Asiki-land, Major?"
"How you like Asiki-land, Major?"
"How you like Asiki-land, Major?"
No
"Funny place, isn't it, Major? I tell you so before you come, but you no believe me."
No
"Very funny," answered Alan, "so funny that I want to get out."
Asika
Very pretty woman, Asika
Yes
, but thank God she not set cap at me, who like to be buried in open like Christian man." 
the cook
here come cook--I mean Asika
Alan
"If you don't stop it, Jeekie," replied Alan in a concentrated rage, "I'll see that you are buried just where you are."
buried where you are
 "I'll see that you are buried just where you are."
Miss Barbara
 I wonder what Miss Barbara say if she see you mooing and cooing with dark-eyed girl in gold snake skin?" 
mooing and cooing with a girl
 I wonder what Miss Barbara say if she see you mooing and cooing with dark-eyed girl in gold snake skin?" 
dark-eyed
with dark-eyed gir
gold snake skin
girl in gold snake skin?" 
Asika
Just then the Asika arrived
treasure-hall
Alan remarked to her that the treasure-hall was hot
Alan
Alan remarked to her that the treasure-hall was hot. 
Mungana
he who is called my husband, Mungana,
the dead
Mungana is guardian of the dead
Place of the Treasure
he sleeps in the Place of the Treasure
Yes
gathers wisdom from the spirits