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Updated: June 20, 2025
There lived once in Cairo, in the days of the Khalif El Hakim bi Amrillah, a butcher named Werdan, who dealt in sheep's flesh; and there came to him every forenoon a lady and gave him a diner, whose weight was nigh two and a half Egyptian diners, saying, 'Give me a lamb. So he took the money and gave her the lamb, which she delivered to a porter she had with her; and he put it in his basket and she went away with him to her own place.
"If he crosses my trail I think I couldn't help but kill him," muttered Shefford in a passion that wrung the threat from him. The Indian put his arm round the white man's shoulders. "Bi Nai, long ago I made you my brother. And now you make me your brother. Is it not so? Glen Naspa's spirit calls for wisdom, not revenge. Willetts must be a bad man. But we'll let him live. Life will punish him.
"You don't 'spose I'm goin' to tell, an' get my frien's in trouble?" "Le's see yer paper, Bi," said Dunc, snatching at it as Bi passed to his regular seat. Bi surrendered his paper with the air of one granting a high favor and sank to his chair and his pipe. "How's crops in the city?" asked Hank Fielder, and Bi's tale was set a-going. Bi could talk; that was one thing that always made him welcome.
For they were to go away the next day to leave the province forever. However, he had the courage to keep the class to the end. After the writing, we had the lesson in history; then the little ones sang all together the ba, be, bi, bo, bu. Yonder, at the back of the room, old Hauser had put on his spectacles, and, holding his spelling-book in both hands, he spelled out the letters with them.
They had a long argument, but in the end Bi won, and was given certain documents which he was satisfied would stand in court. A little later the telephone in Reyburn's office rang sharply, and when Jimmie Ryan responded a voice that he had never heard before asked for Mr. Warren Reyburn. "He's out of town," Jimmie replied. "How soon will he be back?" The voice was like a snarl.
It was not for nothing that he had been born over a chemist's shop in Wandsworth High Street. He kept his back to Winny as he stood there by the window. "The bi !" A bad word, a word that he would not for worlds have uttered in a woman's presence, half formed itself on Ranny's lips. He turned. "Well," he said, aloud, "I am Let's throw the filthy things away. They're poisonous."
"Better slide down on the other side," whispered Bi as they reached the platform. "We kin go back round the train an' nobody'll notice."
Then his free palm was cupped under her chin, tilting it carefully. His other eyes appeared above hers. Very close. Very dark. "I'll bite!" Trigger whispered fiercely. "I'll bi mmph! "Mmmph grrmm! "Grr-mm-mhm.... Hm-m-m ... mhm!" They walked on along the trail, hand in hand. They came up over the last little rise. Trigger looked down on the camp. She frowned. "Pretty dull!" she observed. "Eh?"
After father rode away, Buddy crept up and put his two short arms around mother. "Don't cry. I don't have to drink any water," he soothed her. He waited a minute and added optimistically, "Dere's a BI IG wiver comin' pitty soon. Oxes smells water a hunerd miles. Ezra says so. An' las' night Crumpy was snuffin' an' snuffin'. I saw 'im do it. He smelt a BIG wiver. THAT bi-ig!"
Briggs was quite within his rights. Please do not interfere with him." We let Bi go. "The incident demands explanation," continued the coach. "As you all know, we were left in a hole by the loss of Corson and Blake, and the only man who seemed at all possible was Mr. Briggs. But Mr. Briggs, playing as he had been playing all year, would have been no match for Jordan of Yale.
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