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That cheered us up a little, as it shot us down another one hundred and eight feet perpendicular depth to the Soolererzeugungswerk-Konhauser—surely a place nearer than ever to the magic regions of Abracadabra. If not Aladdin’s garden, something wonderful ought surely by this time to have been reached.
"I say in jest 'I come, thou comest, he comes, and the words act on you like abracadabra and the blackest of magic. You don't, I presume, carry a hornbook of French in your case; and if you do, I haven't robbed you of it." He was turning the little case over and over in his hands, again examining the clasps of it. His next freak was to snatch his pistol and look to the priming.
Who his father and mother might be, he, however, did not know; but the Master used to tell him that when his education was finished he should see them. Meantime he was obliged to live in Abracadabra, and make the best of it. The only one of the three rooms which he had ever dwelt in, was the central one, Abra; but there was plenty of entertainment to be had there.
The world of shipping has become articulate poetry to him instead of a monotonous abracadabra. It is as though we can know nothing of a thing until we know its name. Can we be said to know what a pigeon is unless we know that it is a pigeon?
There are pages that to the present writer, at least, after reasonably diligent meditation, remain mere abracadabra, incomprehensible and worthless.
It is almost worth while to be apart on occasion just for the sake of bringing each other so magically near. It is the Arabian Nights come true. As in them, you have only to say a word, and the jinn of the electric fire is waiting for your commands. The word has changed. Once it was "Abracadabra." Now it is "Central." But the miracle is just the same.
There! take my hand and do not be afraid, for Prince Hassan's carpet is beneath your feet. So now! 'Hey presto! Abracadabra! Here we are in a Punjabi village. It is sunset. Over the limitless plain, vast and unbroken as the heaven above, the hot cloudless sky cools slowly into shadow.
"You wouldn't be expected to do such things if the signs of your zodiac were different." "Look out!" warned Cornie. "You'll see more stars than the ones in your horoscope if you lose your grip." "Abracadabra!" cried Mary gamely. "May I hold on to the pole, and the pole hold on to me till we've done all that's expected of us."
But in this part I am going to mention, it lay chiefly in the people deceived, or equally in both; and this was in wearing charms, philtres, exorcisms, amulets, and I know not what preparations, to fortify the body with them against the plague; as if the plague was not the hand of God, but a kind of possession of an evil spirit, and that it was to be kept off with crossings, signs of the zodiac, papers tied up with so many knots, and certain words or figures written on them, as particularly the word Abracadabra, formed in triangle or pyramid, thus:
Nothing did happen, and he began to think nothing would, and to feel rather disappointed, when he recollected the words he had been told to repeat "Abracadabra, dum dum dum!" He repeated them, laughing all the while, they seemed such nonsense. And then and then Now I don't expect anybody to believe what I am going to relate, though a good many wise people have believed a good many sillier things.
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