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Updated: May 18, 2025
It is nothing like the camel, it stumbled a great deal over the loose stones, and I am told the horses stumble as much. I felt the immense superiority of the camel, with its slow regular pace and sure foot, in these stony wastes. The Sheikh's ass is the only animal of the beast-of-burden sort in the whole caravan, besides the camels.
True, his son was not yet a pilgrim; perhaps he was too young to be so called; but Greatheart will take back the old man's crutches Greatheart was both man- of-war and beast-of-burden to the pilgrims and their wives and children and will in spare hours teach young Ready-to-halt the use of the crutch, till the son can use with the same effect as his father his father's instrument.
Just about this time a Chinaman arrived one of the beast-of-burden sort with two immense baskets swung across his shoulders on a bamboo pole. He made three ineffectual efforts to get round the point, but had to fall on his knees each time, as the wind threatened to sweep him too near the cliff.
Later on I realized my mistake because my French is a non-conductor of profanity. Gerome had a wife. In the Congo, where all wives are bought, the consort constitutes the husband's fortune, being cook, tiller of the ground, beast-of-burden and slave generally. I had no desire to incumber myself with this black Venus, so I made Gerome promise that he would not take her along.
Yet you could have seen that he was the brother of Pennyloaf; there was Pennyloaf's submissive beast-of-burden look in his eyes, and his voice had something that reminded one of hers. 'The coppers after you? he whispered, stooping down to Bob with the teacup he had filled with water. Bob nodded, then drained the cup eagerly. 'I get knocked down by a cab or something, he added.
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