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Updated: June 16, 2025
"A few steps more and he is mine," was the thought of Jack, who repeated the pet names with greater ardor, interspersing them with a variation of cluckings and chirpings that would have charmed a prattling baby. He increased his pace, for he was almost within reach, while the beast snorted with excitement.
But Elisabeth seemed entirely contented and made no response to the old gentleman's cluckings and other blandishments. "Come out," he whispered in beguiling tones. "Come out and play." No answer. "Come and play horsey. Don't you want to climb up? That's it. Up she goes! Steady now. Hold tight." As he started on a slow tour of the room on all fours his rider lurched unsteadily.
Clad in vast black robes, with a tuft of hair on the top of the skull, and a shield of rhinoceros leather, they wielded a steel which had no handle, and which they held by a rope; and their camels, which bristled all over with feathers, uttered long, hoarse cluckings. Each blade fell on a precise spot, then rose again with a smart stroke carrying off a limb with it.
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