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When the "gnat's wing" is mentioned, the reference is to Nimrod who, for boasting that he was lord of all, was tortured during four hundred years by a gnat sent by Allah up his ear or nostril. It is called "Zarb al-Ram!" The Nights speak of a "Takht Raml" or a board, like a schoolboy's slate, upon which the dots are inked instead of points in sand.
I should not indeed think of keeping a goose in a cage, that I might hang him up in the parlour for the sake of his melody, but a goose upon a common, or in a farmyard, is no bad performer; and as to insects, if the black beetle, and beetles indeed of all hues, will keep out of my way, I have no objection to any of the rest; on the contrary, in whatever key they sing, from the gnat's fine treble to the bass of the humble bee, I admire them all.
"I voices yer sentiments correct, pard?" The Irishman's fist struck the table and his eyes flashed. "To the thrim av a gnat's heel," he roared. Texas bowed and continued: "Therefore, Bill, this here's our verdict. You camp right here peaceable while I go out an' fetch this Red Hoyt person what's been annoyin' you.
"You don't have to go with us." "Well, I should say not. Hunh! Do I look like I'd do a thing like that? If I do, it's because I'm sick. I just got this far by a gnat's eyelash, and hereinafter I take the best of it every time." "You can wait for the mail-boat." "I certainly can, and, what's more, I will. And I'll register myself, too. There ain't goin' to be any accidents to me whatever."
Jim an' me set down back at the desk an' watched Alf figure up. He looked tickled, and after a while he said: "'Jim, I'm glad I got back. I know now that Texas ain't no place for my talent. It's overrun with sharp-witted Jews an' keen Yankees that know values down to a gnat's heel. But here in these mountains these yokels git scared clean out o' the'r senses when a dollar has to change hands.
But little troubles as well as great ones are best dealt with by being 'spread before the Lord. Whatever is important enough to disturb me is important enough for me to speak to God about it. Whether the poison inflaming our blood be from a gnat's bite, or a cobra's sting, the best antidote is pray about it.
But that we can discover later. Now one word more. Was that same minute swelling the mark like a gnat's bite on the neck of the boy's body, too? And had it been on that of the mother's as well?" "I can't answer either question, Mr. Cleek. I don't remember to have heard about it being remarked in the case of Mrs.
And as I am perfectly aware, you could not live comfortably with a gnat's death upon your conscience. Eh, am I not a seasoned rascal?" "Do not remind me now that you are vile," said Melicent. "Ah, no, not now!" "Lackey, impostor, and thief!" he sternly answered. "There you have the catalogue of all my rightful titles.
"She's hurt that's one reason she won't come up! And allow me to say that what you know about women wouldn't fill a gnat's eye!" I seemed to be hypped on this, and couldn't get away from it. "Well, if you've spilled the beans you'll have to pick 'em up pretty quick, for we'll be home in three days.
But such is the fatalism of cynical fable-lore the shepherd, still in a stupor, crushes the gnat that has saved his life. At night the gnat's ghost returns to rebuke the shepherd for his innocent ingratitude, and rather inappropriately remains to rehearse at great length the tale of what shades of old heroes he has seen in the lower regions. The poem contains 414 lines.
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