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I, William H. Hayes, hereby certify that the bearer of this, Marutahina of Vahitahi, was with me for four or five months, and I can confidently say that I can recommend her to any one in need of an active young wife, general help, or to do chores. She is a very good girl, and the sole support of her mother an old thief with a tattooed back who lives on Beka Beka.
I felt cramped sitting in a canoe all day, but I enjoyed myself in spite of the continuous and heavy rain. Late in the afternoon we arrived at the small village of Namuamua, on the right bank of the river, with the village of Beka on the other side. We were given a small hut all to ourselves, and we fared sumptuously on duck and boiled yams.
And so saying, Beka took a magnificent bunch of grapes out of her basket, and handed it to him. He took it, and by way of thanks said: "Beka, a year hence there'll be some one who will find in you that sweet experience which I vainly seek in the Prophets." Whereupon she swiftly went her way towards the blue smoke that rose up behind the palms of Hium.
Ned Trent followed through the narrow, uncarpeted hall with the faded photograph of Westminster, down the crooked steep stairs with the creaking degrees, and finally into the Council Room once more, with its heavy rafters, its two fireplaces, its long table, and its narrow windows. "Beka wait!" commanded Me-en-gan, and left him.
She was just going to hurry off with her round basket when the fisherman called loudly to her; "Well, Beka, daughter of Manasseh, whither are you taking your ivory white feet?" "My feet are as brown as yours," replied Beka. "Stop mocking at me, Simon." "How can I be mocking at you? You're a fisherman's child, like me. But your basket is too heavy for you." "I am taking my father his dinner."
Simon, with his legs apart in order to preserve the balance, stood up in the boat. "Beka," he said, "let the gods alone, they won't feed us; they eat the best that men have." "Then hold to the one God who feeds the birds." "And who delivers the Jews to the Romans. No; Jehovah won't help me either. So I'm forsaken and stand alone, a tottering reed."
Ned Trent followed through the narrow, uncarpeted hall with the faded photograph of Westminster, down the crooked steep stairs with the creaking degrees, and finally into the Council Room once more, with its heavy rafters, its two fireplaces, its long table, and its narrow windows, "Beka wait!" commanded Me-en-gan, and left him.
The crowd was cheering now: "Beka Co ax Co ax Co ax! Breka Co ax Co ax Co ax! O -up! O -up! Parabolou! Yale! Yale! Yale! 'Rah! 'rah! 'rah! Yale!" "Bah! Ze American boy, he make me what you call eet? vera tired!" Frank turned quickly and saw the speaker standing near the rail not far away.
We have already alluded to that of Sarepta; and there are others near Antioch and in the plain of Beka, between Lebanon and Anti-Lebanon.
"How can I help it if you stand alone?" asked the daughter of Manasseh. "Are there not daughters in Galilee who also stand alone?" "Beka, I am glad that you speak so," replied the fisherman. "Why, how can Simon come to an understanding with anybody so long as he can't come to an understanding with himself? And fishing delights me not. Everything is a burden.
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