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"'Billy Fish, says I to the Chief of Bashkai, 'what's the difficulty here? A straight answer to a true friend. "'You know, says Billy Fish. 'How should a man tell you who knows everything? How can daughters of men marry Gods or Devils? It's not proper.
"'I'm a Chief, says Billy Fish, quite quiet. 'I stay with you. My men can go. "The Bashkai fellows didn't wait for a second word but ran off, and Dan and Me and Billy Fish walked across to where the drums were drumming and the horns were horning. It was cold awful cold. I've got that cold in the back of my head now. There's a lump of it there." The punkah-coolies had gone to sleep.
Lets get to Bashkai, then, says Dan, and, by God, when I come back here again Ill sweep the valley so there isnt a bug in a blanket left! We walked all that day, and all that night Dan was stumping up and down on the snow, chewing his beard and muttering to himself.
He used to call in Billy Fish from Bashkai, and Pikky Kergan from Shu, and an old Chief we called Kafuzelum it was like enough to his real name and hold councils with em when there was any fighting to be done in small villages. That was his Council of War, and the four priests of Bashkai, Shu, Khawak, and Madora was his Privy Council.
He used to call in Billy Fish from Bashkai, and Pikky Kergan from Shu, and an old Chief we called Kafuzelum, it was like enough to his real name, and hold councils with 'em when there was any fighting to be done in small villages. That was his Council of War, and the four priests of Bashkai, Shu, Khawak, and Madora was his Privy Council.
The priests rolled great stones on us, and the regular Army fired hard, and there wasn't more than six men, not counting Dan, Billy Fish, and Me, that came down to the bottom of the valley alive. "Then they stopped firing, and the horns in the temple blew again. 'Come away for Gord's sake come away! says Billy Fish. 'They'll send runners out to all the villages before ever we get to Bashkai.
'Ruin and Mutiny is the matter. We'll break for Bashkai if we can. "I tried to give some sort of orders to my men, the men o' the regular Army, but it was no use, so I fired into the brown of 'em with an English Martini and drilled three beggars in a line.
The Craft's the trick, so help me! and he brings forward that same Chief that I left at Bashkai Billy Fish we called him afterward, because he was so like Billy Fish that drove the big tank-engine at Mach on the Bolan in the old days. 'Shake hands with him, says Dravot; and I shook hands and nearly dropped, for Billy Fish gave me the Grip.
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