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Updated: June 9, 2025
"Ah, when will master get better from his sickness; only the sour heart that sour sickness breeds made him serve Babo so; cutting Babo with the razor, because, only by accident, Babo had given master one little scratch; and for the first time in so many a day, too. Ah, ah, ah," holding his hand to his face.
"Yes," said the servant, entering a word, "those slits in Atufal's ears once held wedges of gold; but poor Babo here, in his own land, was only a poor slave; a black man's slave was Babo, who now is the white's."
Then, lo and behold! The gallows was gone, and in its place stood a fine inn, with lights in the windows, and a landlord bowing and smiling in the doorway, and a fire roaring in the kitchen, and the smell of good things cooking filling the air all around, so that only to sniff did one's heart good. Poor Babo let fall the stone he had carried all day. A stone it was, and a stone he let fall.
"Do you?" said Simon Agricola; "then listen: to-morrow I am going out into the world to make my fortune, for little or nothing is to be had in this town. If you will go along with me I will make your fortune also." "Very well," said Babo, and the bargain was struck.
"Ah, master," sighed the black, bowing his face, "don't speak of me; Babo is nothing; what Babo has done was but duty." "Faithful fellow!" cried Captain Delano. "Don Benito, I envy you such a friend; slave I cannot call him."
"Come," said the king, "tell me truly; where did you get the pot of money?" Poor Babo began to whimper. "I got it for a piece of advice," said he. "Really and truly?" said the king. "Yes," said Babo; "really and truly." "Humph!" said the king. "I should like to have advice that is worth as much as that. Now, how much will you sell your advice to me for?" "How much will you give?" said Babo.
But even as it was, he felt a slight twinge, from a sudden indefinite association in his mind of Babo with Atufal. "Don Benito," said he, "I give you joy; the breeze will hold, and will increase. By the way, your tall man and time-piece, Atufal, stands without. By your order, of course?"
"Well," said the king, "let me have it for a day on trial, and at the end of that time I will pay you what it is worth." "Very well," said Babo, "that is a bargain;" and so he lent the king his piece of advice for one day on trial.
The two of them lived neighbor to neighbor, the one in the next house to the other, and so far as the world could see there was not a pin to choose between them only that one was called a wise man and the other a simpleton. One day the weather was cold, and when Babo came home from gathering rushes he found no fire in the house. So off he went to his neighbor the wise man.
"I won't touch one of them," said Simon Agricola, and off he marched in a huff. But Babo had kept his eyes open. Simon Agricola had laid down the vial upon the table, and while they were saying this and that back and forth, thinking of nothing else, Babo quietly slipped it into his own pocket, without any one but himself being the wiser. Down the stairs stumped the doctor with Babo at his heels.
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