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"Thou art wise, but the Little People are always angry." "Nay, at twilight all wings near and far rest for a while. I will play with the dhole at twilight, for the dhole hunts best by day. He follows now Won-tolla's blood-trail." "Chil does not leave a dead ox, nor the dhole the blood-trail," said Kaa. "Then I will make him a new blood-trail, of his own blood, if I can, and give him dirt to eat.
"Why, where did you come from, chil?" said the lady, with a start of astonishment. "Where have you been?" "In there," he answered, pointing to the wood-house. "Mother and sister are in there." The lady, accompanied by one or two others, hastened to the wood-house. "Where is she?" asked the foremost, for in the gloom of the place she could not perceive anything.
Chardin the traveller, writing in A.D. 1667, gives the population of Ispahán at considerably over a million, but it does not now exceed fifty thousand, including the suburb of Djulfa. The Madrassa, or College, the governor's palace, and "Chil Situn," or "Palace of the Forty Pillars," are the only buildings that still retain some traces of their former glory.
They went on and on for two days' march that is to say, a long sixty miles through the Jungle; and every step they took, and every wave of their trunks, was known and noted and talked over by Mang and Chil and the Monkey People and all the birds. Then they began to feed, and fed quietly for a week or so. Hathi and his sons are like Kaa, the Rock Python. They never hurry till they have to.
It was a coarse tow-sackin'. In winter us had linsey-woolsey pants an' heavy cow-hide shoes. "I was a teasin', mis-che-vious chil' an' de overseer's little gal got it in for me. He was a big, hard fisted Dutchman bent on gittin' riches. He trained his pasty-faced gal to tattle on us Niggers. She got a heap o' folks whipped.
When he got dat old fiddle out you couldn' keep yo' foots still. "Christ'mus was de time o' all times on dat old plantation. Dey don't have no such as dat now. Ever' chil' brought a stockin' up to de Big House to be filled. Dey all wanted one o' de mistis' stockin's, 'cause now she weighed nigh on to three hund'ed pounds. Candy an' presents was put in piles for ever' one.
Bagheera watched curiously while Mowgli went to work with his skinning-knife, ate and drank, and turned over with his chin in his hands. "The man and the woman are come safe within eye-shot of Khanhiwara," Bagheera said. "Thy lair mother sent the word back by Chil, the Kite. They found a horse before midnight of the night they were freed, and went very quickly. Is not that well?"
Vida was not so hurried, apparently, but what she could stand there taking in the picture of Sara and Cecil climbing about their big, kind cousin, with Jean and Mr. Freddy looking on. 'Children! Their mother waved a handkerchief. 'Here's another friend! Chil They're too absorbed to notice, she said apologetically, turning to find Vida had left the window, and was saying good-bye to Borrodaile.
So the very next day he pretended to be raking and sifting until they came nearer and nearer shouting their jibes and their jeers, when he quickly turned around and facing them began his speech: "Don't fear me, chil " was all the further he got when the rosy cheeks became as white as sheets and such scampering and rushing over one another you never saw in all your life.
What'cher doin' a-cleanin' house agin!" cried Sary, leaning against the door-frame panting for breath. "Winded, Sary? Ah told you-all Ah'd carry that heavy box from the wagon. But no!" exclaimed Mr. Brewster. Polly was over by the door by this time, and she stooped to carry the box indoors. "Goodness! What's in the box to make it so heavy?" "Chil', that box hol's all my treasures on arth!
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