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At first he had been certain he could never tire of shooting rabbits. Mr. Hassal had given him the "jolliest little stunner of a gun," and, Tettawonga had gone out with him the first day; and had been very scornful about his enthusiasm when he shot two. "Ba'al good, gun do. Plenty fellow rabbit longa scrub, budgery way north, budgery way south; budgery way eblywhere.
On the latter Bar-rekub is represented seated upon his throne with eunuch and scribe in attendance, while in the field is the emblem of full moon and crescent, here ascribed to "Ba'al of Harran", the famous centre of moon-worship in Northern Mesopotamia. Sendschirli, IV , pl. lxvii.
With nothing but the scanty resources of our alphabet to fall back upon, it is quite impossible to represent this peculiarity phonetically, but it was once remarked by a student of Semitic tongues that the sound of the Hebrew letter 'Ayin is as nearly as possible that of the burr, and that, if you want to ascertain the correct Hebrew pronunciation of the name Ba'al, all you have got to do is to ask any Alderman of Berwick to say "Barrel"
In addition to Astarte of Byblos, Ba'al, Anath, and Reshef were all borrowed from Syria in comparatively early times and given Egyptian characters.
'BUJERI* YOU, white Mary! pleaded Oola in the native formula. 'You gib it medsin.... You gib it one old fellow skirt.... BA'AL, Oola got 'im clothes... BA'AL got 'im ration... plenty sick this feller.... And she beat her breast with the arm that was unhurt. 'Of course, I'll give you medicine and food, and I'll look out something for you to put on.
The country got prettier swelling pastures and stony pinches and a distant outline of hills. They could see the green line of a water course. 'Plenty water sit down along a creek? McKeith asked the black boy. But Cudgee shook his woolly head. 'Ba'al* mine think it, Massa. No rain plenty long time. McKeith sighed. The dark shadow of coming drought is a fearsome spectre on the Never-Never Land.
Only for heaven's sake, stop crying, said Lady Bridget. 'Come along. You must have that spear pulled out and your arm seen to. Come with me to the Humpey. Quick MURRA* make haste. But Wombo drew back, casting an affrighted glance down the gully towards the crossing. 'Ba'al me go long-a Humpey I believe Boss PHO-PHO*, Oola, he said. 'Wombo, you are foolish. What for Boss shoot Oola?
Black teller belonging to that feller plenty COOLLA*. My been sneak camp. Me catch 'em Oola. Black feller look out, throw 'im tomahawk, NULLA-NULLA*. My word! big feller fight. Me YAN plenty quick. Oola YAN* plenty quick. Black feller come after throw 'im spear close up MUMKULL*. BA'AL* can pull out spear, Oola plenty cry. Oola joined in with the black's plaintive wail.
Ba'al good barbed wire fence do, ba'al good poison do. Bah!" But Pip was not to be discouraged, and really thought he had done great good to the Yarrahappini estate by shooting those two soft, fleet brown things. He took them home and displayed them proudly to the girls, cleaned his perfectly clean gun, and sallied forth the next day.
A COO-EE sounded long, clear, vibrant. Moongarr Bill and Wombo, who had gone on ahead, were fixing camp. Lady Bridget's musical voice caught up the note. She answered it with another COO-EE, to Cudgee's delight. 'My word! Ba'al newchum, that feller white Mary, said he. They had rounded a knoll abutting on the green line of ti-trees and swamp oak.
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