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They are making tame animals of us, playthings. When they grow tired of us they will throw us out. You're doing the right thing. Stick to it. Stand them off. Command respect, respect for all of us " The last was barely audible, for by this time the ki-sang had stuffed his mouth to speechlessness. As I have said, I had the will and the fearlessness, and I racked my sea- cuny brains for the wit.
But by the time the crews of the three junks and most of the village were on top of me I was fairly smothered. The planking was easy. "God in heaven, what now!" asked Vandervoot, another cuny, when we had been bundled aboard a junk.
"In such matters a cuny is naught particular," I temporized. "How like you her?" he repeated, his beady eyes boring into me. "Passing well, ay, and more than passing well, if you will have it." "Then win to her," he commanded, "and some day we will get ship and escape from this cursed land. I'd give half the silks of the Indies for a meal of Christian food again." He regarded me intently.
Now Tromp was a rather stupid, slow-thinking, slow-moving cuny, and before he knew what was doing one of the planks, with a scissors-like opening and closing, was about his neck and clamped. Discovering his predicament, he set up a bull-roaring and dancing, till all had to back away to give him clear space for the flying ends of his plank.
"He speaks our language," quoth the Emperor at the last; and I swear there was such a relinquishment of held breaths that the whole room was one vast sigh. "I was born with this language," I replied, my cuny wits running rashly to the first madness that prompted. "I spoke it at my mother's breast. I was the marvel of my land. Wise men journeyed far to see me and to hear.
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