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But when Daughtry turned his back and started off along the deck, his constitutional obstinacy tightened his brows so that the Shortlands planter, observing it, wondered what the captain had been rowing him about. Despite his six quarts a day and all his easy-goingness of disposition, Dag Daughtry possessed certain integrities.
But this did not continue long, for, either according to blind chance, or to the lines of fate written in the book of life ere ever the foundations of the world were laid, Michael was scheduled for an adventure that was profoundly to affect, not alone his own destiny, but the destinies of Kwaque and Dag Daughtry and determine the very place of their death and burial.
The Bel of the Assyrians was certainly not their Fish-god; nor had his epithet Da-gaga any real connection with the word dag, "a fish." To speak of "Bel-Dagon" is thus to mislead the ordinary reader, who naturally supposes from the term that he is to identify the great god Belus, the second deity of the first Triad, with the fish forms upon the sculptures. HEA, or HOA.
"What! are you too a sharer in their womanish fears, Suffolk?" cried Henry. "I thought you had been made of stouter stuff. If there is danger, I shall be the first to encounter it. Come," he added, snatching a torch from an arquebusier. And, drawing his dag, he hurried up the steep steps, while Suffolk followed his example, and three or four arquebusiers ventured after them.
Will ye along?" "Heartily, captain, heartily!" "Are ye armed, Godby?" "I've Gregory's dag here," says Godby, pulling out a long-barrelled pistol. "Joel shall find ye another to go with it. And ye know the sea?" "Aye, Captain, I sailed with Captain Myddleton as gunner and will lay you a gun with any man from a murdering-piece or minion to a great culverin."
" and again the top of the forefinger was lodged in his mouth, "vat is 'skönt'? bootifool? jag tacker; like von bootifool flicka, gal, and ze odare skepps like old vomans." So saying, he raised his hat and gravely wished me good day. "Good dag," he exclaimed again, standing upright in the boat "Farväl!" "Good dag. Farväl!" repeated his companion.
Dag Daughtry drank a seventh quart as he listened, so carried away was he by the sombre sense of romance of this dark jungle event wherein men killed even strangers because a pig was dead.
For he had to learn, first, the spoken numerals; second, to see with his eyes and in his brain differentiate between one object, and all other groups of objects up to and including the group of five; and, third, in his mind, to relate an object, or any group of objects, with its numerical name as uttered by Steward. In the training Dag Daughtry used balls of paper tied about with twine.
Mammoth Dagshaw." Mabel looked up coldly from the book she was reading. "Back again already?" she said. "Well, what was it you were saying?" "I was saying," said Luke gaily, "that I hoped you enjoyed your visit to the Dammoth Circus with Mr. Dag Moomshaw." "Port never did agree with you," said Mabel. "You shouldn't take it." She resumed her book. Luke tried the second of the pleasant sentences.
"Why don't you begin?" Dag Daughtry questioned impatiently. "Besides, my rheumatism don't count. It's the nigger-boy's swelling." "You need a course of treatment," Doctor Emory assured him. "Rheumatism is a tough proposition. It should never be let grow chronic. I'll fix up a course of treatment for you. Now, if you'll get out of the chair, we'll look at your black servant."
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