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"And," he continued, with a lowered voice and solemn look, "if Cheenbuk had not turned to the left when I told him, we never would have found it." "But what was it like?" asked an elderly man with a squat-nose, whose mind was not quite clear, although he had already listened to an elaborate description. "Like? Ho! it was like like " "Like a big kayak?" remarked some one. "No, no.
Squat-nose, also, was prone to stand in front of that mirror, making hideous faces at himself and laughing violently; but there is reason to believe that it was not vanity which influenced him so much as a philosophical desire to ascertain the cause of his own ugliness! Aglootook likewise wasted much of his valuable time before it.
Far, far bigger," said the magician, making an imbecile attempt to indicate inconceivable size by waving arms and outspread fingers; "it was as big as as " "A whale?" suggested Squat-nose. "Bigger Bigger!" said Aglootook, with a lost look in his eyes.
This seemed to fairly take away the breath of the audience, for they could only glare and remain dumb. For a few moments they breathed hard, then Squat-nose said in a deep whisper "Go on." Aglootook did go on, and kept going on so long that his audience were forced to go off and assuage the pangs of hunger which prolonged abstinence and mental excitement at last rendered unendurable.
A new sense of shame was by this means developed among these natives, as well as the power to blush; because after people had been interrupted frequently in this act of self-admiration, they were laughed at, and the constant recurrence of this laughter aroused a feeling of indignation, at the same time a tendency to hop away and pretend interest in other things! Squat-nose never did this.
Squat-nose ventured to hope. "Plenty of time," returned Aglootook, with a patronising smile. "In fact I advised Cheenbuk to start away back as fast as possible with many sledges, so that my woman will see it with her own eyes." "And me too?" exclaimed the sister, bringing her palms together with a smack. "And you too.
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