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The natives quickly found out that there was a demand for them, and as they could not always find old genuine ones they set to work to make them! Hundreds of new ones are palmed off as old in this way on unsuspecting tourists. "Scarab!" A solemn girl-child clad in a rust-coloured garment has come up on seeing our donkeys halt and holds out a brilliant blue scarab for sale in a hot little hand.
If the Canterbury Pilgrims, led by jolly Harry Bailey, their host, had burst out from the woods, on horseback, singing and jesting, I should not have considered their appearance an anachronism.... A tousle-headed girl-child in rompers which she was too big for, pointed me Baxter's house, the largest in the community. There seemed to be no one home when I dropped my suitcase on the front porch....
His medicine men said he had no human heart in his body; his warriors said he had no human blood in his veins. But he clasped this woman's hands, and his eyes, his lips, his voice, were gentle as her own, as he replied: "'Give to me a girl-child a little girl-child that she may grow to be like you, and, in her turn, give to her husband children.
But she sure had to see after us children. I seed after myself. I was all the girl-child there and I just did what I wanted to. "The country was kind of wild in those days. The deer used to come loping down and we would be scared and run and hide. Some people would set the dogs on them and some people would kill them no matter who they belonged. You see, some people had them as pets. Amusements
The last blind houses of the village, brown as brown paper, confront it on a mound, and as I came toward it a girl-child swathed in purple with ear-rings, and a twist of orange handkerchief above her eyes, full of cloud and fire, leaned from a roof, sinuously as a young snake, to watch me.
But lately had not underthoughts come into his mind, thoughts of leaving an impress on a vivid young intellect, a soul that was full of life, and the beginnings of energy? Had not he dreamed, however vaguely, of forming, like some sculptor of genius, an exquisite statuette poetry, in the slim form of a girl-child singing to the world?
The children had the start; but the three thousand buso kept gaining on them, until they were close behind. As they ran, the little boy said to his sister, "When we get to that field over there, where there are ripe bananas, you must not speak a word." But when they reached the banana-tree, the girl-child cried out, "Brother, I want to eat a banana."
Still, even in your ignorance, you are my people: you and your wishes must be considered. I call together the great medicine men, the men of witchcraft, the men of magic. They shall decide the laws which will follow the bearing of either boy or girl-child. What say you, oh! mighty men?
If it's a girl-child she'll be the mother of her people; and if it be a man-child he shall grow up to carry on his father's work. So there there me darlin', we'll go back we'll go back." She shook her head feebly. "I can't," she said. "Why not, dear?" "I didn't want to tell you. But now you make me. Frank, dear, I am ill." His heart almost stopped. "Ill? Oh, my darlin', what is it? Is it serious?
"It is a beautiful story, klootchman," I said, "and I feel a cruel delight that your men of magic punished the people for their ill choice." "That because you girl-child yourself," she laughed. There was the slightest whisper of a step behind me. I turned to find Maarda almost at my elbow.
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