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Behind the harelipped man appeared Perley and Fowler, and six savage warriors, armed fully, and coated thickly with war paint. Now Henry knew that the sinister effect of Holdsworth's face was not due wholly to his harelip, and the ugliness of all his features. He was glad in a way because he had not done the man injustice.
"Come in," he said quickly; "we are white like yourselves, and we claim no exclusive rights to this Council House, which is about the only real shelter left in the Indian town. We are hunters and scouts." "So are we," said the man with the harelip, speaking grammatically and with a fair degree of courtesy.
He returned to his breakfast, satisfied that the goblins were mining in the direction of the palace on so low a level that their intention must, he thought, be to burrow under the walls of the king's house, and rise up inside it in order, he fully believed, to lay hands on the little princess, and carry her off for a wife to their horrid Harelip. Irene Behaves Like a Princess
The natives are, as a rule, small, with a yellowish brown skin; noses not large, lips not thick, but teeth very poor. Many of them have cleft palate or harelip, straight hair very black, and heads rather flattened on top. I examined many skulls and found the occiput and first cervical ankylosed.
If you expect me to approve of such coarse tastes, you will find yourself mistaken. I don't wear shoes for nothing. 'You must acknowledge, however, the king said, with a little groan, 'that this at least is no whim of Harelip's, but a matter of State policy. You are well aware that his gratification comes purely from the pleasure of sacrificing himself to the public good. Does it not, Harelip?
They must not split firewood, otherwise harelip will result, or a child with double thumbs. The arms or legs must not be cut off from any animal caught, else the child will have stumps of arms or legs. When fish has been caught the couple must not open the head themselves; if they do the child will be born without ears.
'And what if you should? How much wiser will you be then? 'Wait a minute, mother dear. I told you that when I came upon the royal family in the cave, they were talking of their prince Harelip, they called him marrying a sun-woman that means one of us one with toes to her feet.
It will not cure harelip or cleft palate, nor will it loosen the tongue of the child who has been hopelessly tongue-tied from birth.
This man was short and stout, with a harelip and cleft palate, which at once gave him the well-known slurring speech of persons so afflicted, and imparted also to the timbre of his voice a peculiarly hollow, resonant, trumpet-like note. He stumped about energetically on a wooden leg of home manufacture.
Francis heard, and, one after another, four great backs slowly heaved up; then an ill-formed head and an impossible mouth, with the unbelievable harelip, and before our eyes the sea-cows snorted and gamboled. Again, four years later, I put my whole soul into a prayer for manatees, and again with success.
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