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Hereupon Num again blew the trumpet till he was black in the face; and Timothy, dropping on his donkey, rode away to other parts of the town, where he repeated his grandiloquent announcement, followed, as may be supposed, by a numerous cortege of little ragged boys.
"John," said I, "I have been thinking over that yarn of yours and have come to one or two conclusions." "What may they be, Allan?" "The first is that you were a great donkey not to get more out of the Kalubi when you had the chance." "Agreed, Allan, but, amongst other things, I am a doctor and the operation was uppermost in my mind."
What effect he may have upon your children, I cannot say. But when you talk about his being useful in a garden " "He draws a cart," interrupted Miss Janie. "So long as someone walks beside him feeding him with carrots. We tried fixing the carrot on a pole six inches beyond his reach. That works all right in the picture: it starts this donkey kicking."
He was a very tall old man, so lean that he looked like a skeleton, the bones covered with a skin as brown as old leather, and he wore his thin grey hair and snow-white beard very long. He rode on a white donkey, and was usually seen mounted galloping down the village street, hatless, his old brown, bare feet and legs drawn up to keep them from the ground, his scythe over his shoulder.
Before very long the water had risen so high that he could reach it with his bill. How refreshing it was! He drank as much as he wished, then flew away. A grocer went to a city not far away to get some salt. He took his donkey along to carry the load. On their way they had to cross a little stream over which there was only a narrow footbridge.
He called out to his companions that he was sure there must be a house not far off, for he could see a light shining. When he heard this, the donkey said at, once: 'Then we must get up, and go and look for the house, for this is very poor shelter. And the greyhound added: 'Yes; I feel I'd be all the better for a few bones and a scrap or two of meat.
Money and in conversation with him, my donkey stumbled upon his knees and threw me over his head, without injury to me, but Mrs. Money, who was just before me, seeing the accident, was near fainting and, during the rest of the day, was invisible.
But the absurdity of the proposal did not seem to strike any one; only the difficulty of procuring an elephant, with a man who would know how to manage the animal, was very great. Why not a donkey? They could easily get one from Wimbledon; the gardener would bring one. But a donkey ride seemed a strange come-down after an elephant ride, and an idea had suddenly struck Sister Agatha.
They were not as large or as fine as the Nodding Donkey, and they looked at him in a rather queer way, did these animals from the Noah's Ark. Of course they did not dare say or do anything as long as Joe was looking at them. "Now I will pretend that this table is the circus ring," said Joe, talking to himself, as he often did.
He took the opportunity of telling them that the capital had a population of half a million. "Have you counted them, father?" exclaimed Sister, in perplexity, taking hold of his sleeve. "Why, of course father hasn't, you little donkey!" said Lasse Frederik. "One might be born while he was counting!" Then they were at the cock again, which both began and ended the book.
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