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I may mention, as typical of the marvellous things done: becoming visible and invisible, as did "Jack the Giant Killer"; the existence of giants and dwarfs, as in Little Tom Thumb; incredibly rapid growth of vegetation, as in Jack and the Beanstalk; being suddenly transported without effort through immense distances and seeing at the other end of such a journey scenes and events actually transpiring at the time as occurred in many of the Arabian Nights stories; cases in which plates and dishes washed themselves, and many other household feats were performed, as in Prince Hildebrand and Princess Ida; cases of long sleep, such as the Sleeping Beauty; cases in which human beings have been transformed into animals, and vice versa, as in Beauty and the Beast; cases in which palaces have sprung up over night, existing on the desert plain, only to vanish the next night and leave it as barren as before as so often happened in the Arabian Nights.
"I'm an Englishman by the name of Baynes; but who the devil are you?" asked the Hon. Morison. "They call me The Killer," replied Korak, giving the English translation of the name that Akut had given him. And then after a pause during which the Hon.
As the Master and the few others who had descended the steps were working over the fallen man, the Mistress checked the turmoil on the veranda. At Lad's leap, memory of this speed-mad motorist had rushed back to her. Now, tersely, for the benefit of those around, she was identifying him with the killer of Lady; whose death had roused so much indignation in the village.
Then Tha gave an order to the trees that hang low, and to the trailing creepers of the Jungle, that they should mark the killer of the buck so that he should know him again, and he said, 'Who will now be master of the Jungle People? Then up leaped the Gray Ape who lives in the branches, and said, 'I will now be master of the Jungle."
When M. Vandeloup had come to this conclusion he arose, and, going to the supper room, drank a glass of brandy; for even he, cool as he was, felt a little nervous over the crime he was about to commit. He thought he would give Kitty one last chance, so when she was already cloaked, waiting with Mrs Killer for the carriage, he drew her aside.
The peewits were circling over me with eerie cries, and now and then on the moor-side the curlews would be crying into the night lonely as I was lonely; and in every heather tussock I would be seeing shapes, and dreading the thought of the Nameless Man and his brindled hunter, till my hair was like to rise on my head, and I would feel it in my legs to be running, but that I kent my folk, dead and gone, would be laughing at me, in their own place, for our past folk are not so much dead as just away, and maybe watching; and maybe I would be comforting myself with the thought that the Killer would be dead long syne in the course of nature he and his great dog but for all that I had a twig of rowan in my hand, for the night was not canny.
I tell you, honey, de Lo'd made dat hymn my sin- killer on dat blessed day, long, long to be 'membered." "And did you preach?" I asked. "Preach, chile; de Lo'd did all de preachin' dat day. We finish' de hymn, an' we went down an' talked an' prayed wid de seekers, an' we staid dar all night, an' afore next mornin' twenty-three was converted an' praisin' God.
Popular Pantomime subjects Poor Pantomime Librettos Pantomime subjects of our progenitors The various versions of "Aladdin" "The Babes in the Wood" "Blue Beard" "Beauty and the Beast" "Cinderella" "Dick Whittington" "The House that Jack Built" "Jack the Giant Killer" "Jack and the Beanstalk" "Red Riding Hood" "The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood" Unlucky subjects "Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves" "The Fair One with Golden Locks" The source of "Sindbad the Sailor" and "Robinson Crusoe."
"'No, nor blind, says she; 'as sharp as a needle, but she's gone quite aupy, and can't remember nout rightly; and Jack the Giant Killer, or Goody Twoshoes will please her as well as the king's court, or the affairs of the nation. "'And what did the little girl go away for, ma'am, that went on Friday last? My aunt wrote to my mother she was to go. "'Yes; she's gone. "'What for? says I again.
The killer kicked at the crumpled thing as he passed. As far as Raf could see there had been no reason for that wanton slaying. The head of the party had reached a doorway, sealed shut by what looked like a solid slab of material. He placed both palms flat down on its surface at shoulder height and leaned forward against it, almost as if he were whispering some secret formula.
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