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'I suppose you wouldn't care for the loan of a couple of my camels? the showman suggested, in humorous sympathy. 'I would, said my sister, who had ridden camel-back in Egypt, and she overruled the objections of the groom, who hadn't.
Their short halt while they drank their tea had passed without incident in fact, Millicent had drunk hers alone on camel-back, for it had been carried in thermos flasks, their Amon-Ra, as Hassan called the magic bottles whose contents retained the heat with no obvious aid. Michael had spent the time, while he drank his refreshing cup, in consulting Abdul about their route.
Back, get ye back again to shop and ship and factory, Mine and mill and foundry where the iron yokes are made; Ye have trod a distant track With a queen on camel-back, Now hie and hew a broadway for your emperors of trade!
The whole party rode on horseback. Their steeds were small, active little animals, which managed to scuffle along at a great rate, up and down hill being apparently the same to them. Stephen and Roger agreed that it was far more pleasant riding than on camel-back.
And perhaps you noticed the rifles her 'leddyship' provided them with at Touggourt?" "I saw the muzzles glitter as they rode along on camel-back," Stephen answered. "I was glad even then, but now " He did not need to finish the sentence. "We'd better have a word with our host," he said.
She knew nothing of what was necessary for such a journey, and tired of ceaseless argument, and too much occupied with joy to burden herself with detail, at last let Batouch have his way. "I leave it to you, Batouch," she said. "But, remember, as few people and beasts as possible. And as you say we must have camels for certain parts of the journey, we will travel the first stage on camel-back."
Their talk ceased as we rode along the track, and those who were on the platform about half of them eyed Ayisha with as much curiosity as a Bedouin taken by surprise ever permits himself to betray. She did not give them much time for reflection, and wasted none whatever on conciliation, but affronted them from camel-back, having learned that method, no doubt, from her rightful lord and master.
I learned how later, though, and I liked the water. But this time my mother took me across the river on her back." "It's a good thing your mother didn't have a camel-back like Humpo," said Woo-Uff, with a sort of chuckling laugh. "Why?" asked Horni, the rhinoceros. "Because, if Mrs.
Too many cartridges in one's pocket are apt to chafe on camel-back and so is a belt full of them. In those days also the engagements were few in which a man fired over fifteen. I had forty or fifty more in a bag, which bag Savage with his usual politeness had taken and hung upon his saddle without saying a word to me.
"If you're right determined " He interrupted himself to point to the south. "Do y'u see that camel-back peak over there?" "The one with the sunshine on its lower edge?" "That's it, Miss Messiter. They call those two humps the Antelope Peaks. If y'u can drop me somewhere near there I think I'll manage all right." "I'm not going to leave you till we reach a house," she informed him promptly.
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