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She journeyed on and on till one day she happened to come to a tank with a large well near it; she turned the donkey loose to graze on the banks of the tank and sat down by the well to eat some of the food which she had with her.
Jim saw black dots of men moving about the top of the dam. He heard the clatter of concrete mixers, the raucous grind of the crusher, the scream of donkey engines and the shouts of foremen. Back to the right, among the trees, was a long military line of tents. Above the noise of construction the boy caught the silent brooding of the forest and, poured round all, the liquid glory of the sunset.
From the other side we can see it as it is in its yellow colouring. How fascinating! Its runs away in sweeping low waves to a line of hills and is crossed by caravan tracks; even as we watch we see a man riding a small donkey ahead of a string of camels laden with huge bales.
'But what you can't do with a horse, you can't hope to do with a donkey. She added that she had come for the purpose of seeing the heiress, of whose points of person she delivered a judgement critically appreciative as a horsefancier's on the racing turf. 'If a girl like that holds to it, she's pretty sure to get him at last. It 's no use to pull his neck down to the water.
"Yes, but first won't you " "And the curly dog," continued the small voice, as another step brought the resolute young personage nearer. "There he is." A pause, a long look; then a new demand with the same solemn tone, the same advance. "I wish to hear the donkey bray." "Certainly, if he will." "And the peacocks scream." "Any thing more, sir?"
Instead of answering at once, the ox eyed the beggar with a long look of disgust. 'What is the use of talking, he replied roughly, 'when a good-for-nothing creature like that can hear all we say? 'Oh, you mustn't lose time in grumbling, rejoined the donkey gaily, 'and don't you see that the wizard is asleep?
And when I had eaten he charged me to drive this donkey to Abou Fatma at the wells of Obak." Abou Fatma looked carelessly at the donkey as though now for the first time he had remarked it. "Tayeeb," he said, no less carelessly. "The donkey is mine," and he sat inattentive and motionless, as though the negro's business were done and he might go. The negro, however, held his ground.
It looks very much like riding, to a spectator; and it deceives the person undertaking it into an amount of exercise equal to walking. I have a great admiration for the donkey character. There never was such patience under wrong treatment, such return of devotion for injury.
The donkey was still under the canvas shelter, and Frank, going for some wood, saw the stone still tied to the tail of the beast. "I guess you'll not bray now," he remarked as he cut the rope. The next instant the animal lifted up its tail and sent forth a loud note. It seemed as though he had been saving it up for many hours. The woods rang with it.
He consoled them a little, though, by promising that he would not look at anything until they were there to show him round; and then, to cheer them in their work, there was his interest in the donkey and cart, and the packing up of their load, and his astonishment at the number of different things they carried in it now.
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