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Then silence, during which Zikali stamped upon all the remaining markings, saying: "I thank you, O Dust, though I am sorry to have troubled you for so small a matter. So, so," he went on presently, "a royal boy-child is dead, and you think by witchcraft. Let us find out if he died by witchcraft or as others die, by command of the Heavens that need them. What! Here is one mark which I have left.
In all the range of sentient creatures there is none so innately and barbarously cruel as the human boy-child; and this was the first time Thomas Jefferson had ever had a helplessly pliable subject.
Such was his case; but as regards Habzalam Bazazah, the Emir Khalid's son, he ceased not to languish for love and longing till he died and they joined him to the dust. And as for the young wife Jessamine, she accomplished the months of her pregnancy and, being taken with labour-pains, gave birth to a boy-child like unto the moon.
And, having none, she set her heart, as you set a lure with cunning hands, to win the love of little Maurice Priestly. At the age of six, a boy-child is constituted of impressions soft wax to the working of any fingers that touch his heart.
They spoke with the gods of the mountains, with the gods of the sea; then 'the power' of decision came to them. They were inspired with a choice to lay before the tribes-people, and the most ancient medicine-man in all the coast region arose and spoke their resolution: "'The people of the tribe cannot be allowed to have all things. They want a boy-child and they want a great salmon-run also.
By her happy laugh, and by memories of the hours we sat and talked of the boy-child we'd both set our hearts on. I just can't do it without going stark, staring, raving mad. I can't." "That's how I figgered. I've watched it in you, Les. Tell me the rest." Bat chewed steadily. It was a safety-valve for his feelings. "The rest?" Standing turned to gaze out at the house across the water.
"And are you going to make a fisherman of him?" I asked. "No, no, not boy-child, it is girl-child," she answered with some indescribable trick of expression that led me to know she preferred it so. "You are pleased it is a girl?" I questioned in surprise. "Very pleased," she replied emphatically. "Very good luck to have girl for first grandchild.
The redskin boy-child who looks out from his little cradle-board on a world of forest through whose trails his baby feet are already being fitted to follow is not many hours old before careful hands wrap him about with gay-beaded bands that are strapped to the carven and colored back-board that will cause him to stand erect and upright when he is a grown warrior.
"And are you going to make a fisherman of him?" I asked. "No, no, not boy-child, it is girl-child," she answered with some indescribable trick of expression that led me to know she preferred it so. "You are pleased it is a girl?" I questioned in surprise. "Very pleased," she replied emphatically. "Very good luck to have girl for first grandchild.
Martin D. Richardson, Field Worker Brooksville, Florida In 1861, when he was 16 years old, Ambrose Hilliard Douglass was given a sound beating by his North Carolina master because he attempted to refuse the mate that had been given to him with the instructions to produce a healthy boy-child by her and a long argument on the value of having good, strong, healthy children.
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