The Island of Tin-Yutan (The South Sea Adventure)

The only reason I took this case on a savage island off the coast of New Guinea was that I'd been having a bout with a bottle of old fairy godmother and I was hoping to run into a native who would shrink my head.

This is another in the Adventures of America's Fabulous Freelance Insurance Investigator, Johnny Dollar. At insurance investigation, Johnny Dollar is only an expert. At making out his expense account, he's an absolute genius. Spencer Count submitted by special investigator Johnny Duller to Seven Seas Maritime Underwriters Association Hartford Connecticut attention Enis McCr again.

expense account item one eight hundred and thirty dollars and eighty one cents and three and a half shillings. airfare, arkford, canada, to port, moorsby territory of papua island of nugini. that's a long trip brother.

by the time I got there I felt that my spine could use a new seating arrangement. expense account item two thirty six dollars and eighty cents. A new outfit consisting of bush jacket, linen shorts, and a pith helmet.

Item three, two bits. The street beggar regarding location of building in which was situated the Fort Moresby branch of the Seven Seas Maritime Underwriters Association. Oh, him long on house, him blun, what's a lot?

Little way big, big money money, you catch me sleet alongside holly holly, you hear joyous, big fellow buckets, you fight him cry. Him long on house blun from there, no? No, thanks a lot, I'll go look it up in a telephone book.

Oh! Yes, sir, I, Mr. Narky, and it's lovely having you here, Mr. Daller. I wish I could say the same about being here. Oh, now do you get used to it? Ah, I don't expect to be here that long.