Up against it in Nigeria . mpanied by much laughter,as the fact that the prosecutrix declined to besworn ! This unnerved the judge so much thathe forthwith transferred the case to a highercourt. The lunaticx is still at large on JebbaIsland, and entertains each passing mail trainwith his antics on an imaginary parade groundon the platform. He is also reputed to holdspiritualistic communications with the devils ofJuju rock. One of the most distressing features of life atJebba was the copy wire—a channel throughwhich the railway disseminated news of theirvagaries among all and sundry, from the p
Up against it in Nigeria . mpanied by much laughter,as the fact that the prosecutrix declined to besworn ! This unnerved the judge so much thathe forthwith transferred the case to a highercourt. The lunaticx is still at large on JebbaIsland, and entertains each passing mail trainwith his antics on an imaginary parade groundon the platform. He is also reputed to holdspiritualistic communications with the devils ofJuju rock. One of the most distressing features of life atJebba was the copy wire—a channel throughwhich the railway disseminated news of theirvagaries among all and sundry, from the plate-layer to the doctor and Accidents, in par-ticular, they revelled in. So proud were theyon one occasion of having run over an old womansomewhere near Ibadan, that I was awakened with a wire containing a long, ramblingstatement about accident B. I was new tothis system of all concerned telegraphy inthose days, so I sprang out of bed and hurriedto WTillans house. The latter having damned 1 Since
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