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There is essentially no distinction to the mind of the primitive man between the Panis, who steal Indra's bright cows and keep them in a dark cavern all night, and the throttling snake Ahi or Echidna, who imprisons the waters in the stronghold of the thunder-cloud and covers the earth with a short-lived darkness.

He came and stood over her as she lay on the turf the beautiful, noxious creature. She had destroyed him; body, soul, and mind, she had destroyed him. And now and now ahi, ahi! After all he had suffered, after paying all the price he had paid! Ah, how lovely as she lay there sleeping placidly sleeping, she! And he was to be cheated! Her beauty, her love was to be given to another.

The song ceased; and then, a moment later, faint and wavering, and like the voice of a seagull, came the reply "Ahi aheee!" "Man," said the porter, turning white eyeballs and glinting teeth over his shoulder at Adams. He called again, and again came the reply.

The Maruts speak: From thence, in company with our strong friends, having adorned our bodies, we now harness our fallow deer with all our might; for, Indra, according to custom, thou hast come to be with us. Indra speaks: Where, O Maruts, was that custom with you, when you left me alone in the killing of Ahi? I indeed am terrible, powerful, strong, I escaped from the blows of every enemy.

Before going away, we held a solemn market of antiquities. We sat cross-legged on the ground, and the Indian women and children brought us many curious articles in clay and obsidian, which we bought and deposited in two great bags of aloe-fibre which our man carried at his saddle-bow. Among the articles we bought were various pipes or whistles of pottery, pitos, as they are called in Spanish, and just as we were mounting our horses to ride off, a lad ran to the top of one of the mounds, and blew on one of these pipes a long dismal note that could be heard a mile off. Our friends had filled our heads so full of robbers and ambushes, that we made sure it was a signal for some one who was waiting for us, and the more so as the boy ran off as soon as he had blown his blast; and when we looked round for the people whose antiquities we had been buying, they had all disappeared. But nothing came of it, and we got safely back to Tezcuco. As usual, we spent a capital evening, and separated late. The owner of the glass-works, who had been spending the evening with us, had an adventure on his road home. He was peaceably riding along, when two men rushed out from behind the corner of the street, and shouted "alto ahí!" (halte-l

Indra is most frequently invoked of all the gods, and may be called the national god of this period. He is described as a chieftain standing in a chariot drawn by two horses. He waged a great battle, but still wages it constantly, against the monsters of heat and drought, Vrittra, the coverer, and Ahi the dragon, for the deliverance of the cows, the heavenly waters, kept by them in captivity.

"Ahi!" exclaimed the cavaliere, looking after them with a comical smile, "this youth of New Italy! They have no more brains than a pin. When I was young, and every city had its own ruler and its own court, I should not have escorted a lady and kept her waiting outside in the sun. Bah! those were not the manners of my day.

And that song was very well sung. Let us go on and I will sing thee the song of Nikal Seyn before Delhi the old song. Kim was delighted, and the lama listened with deep interest. 'Ahi! Nikal Seyn is dead he died before Delhi! Lances of the North, take vengeance for Nikal Seyn. He quavered it out to the end, marking the trills with the flat of his sword on the pony's rump.

Desmond, who had been squatting in the oriental manner an accomplishment he had learned with some pains at Gheria rose to leave. The khansaman's florid cheeks again put on a sickly hue, and when the seeming lascar had gone a few paces he called him back. "Ahi, excellent khalasi. I think I remember I am almost sure I can discover where the two bibis are concealed."

The sun on the roof that day when he played so long alone and I was ahi! braiding my hair it may be that the sun then bred the fever. If I had warned him from the sun he might have lived. But, oh my life, say that I am guiltless! Thou knowest that I loved him as I love thee. Say that there is no blame on me, or I shall die I shall die! 'There is no blame, before God, none.