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The second and third divisions contain some remarkable figures, including bronze groups of Osiris-ioh, or the moon, with the lunar disk; a walking figure of Anubis, with a jackal's head; the ibis-headed Thoth, and Har-si-esi with a hawk's head, each pouring a flood of water upon the earth; various hawk-headed and other deities, in the beautiful lapis lazuli, blue porcelain, and green felspar, including Isis suckling her son Horus, and walking with a throne on her head; Nephthys walking; a porcelain Horus with the mystic lock; a blue porcelain plate, representing a procession of female deities; a snake-headed deity, also in blue porcelain; and a porcelain Thoth carrying a scarabaeus.
The bees flew out in a huge swarm, and made furiously for the panther, whom they attacked on all sides, while the baboon soon climbed up out of the way, crying, as he perched himself on the branch of a tree, 'I wish you joy of your children! while from afar the jackal's voice was heard exclaiming: 'Sting, her well! don't let her go!
It is the popular belief that the fortunate discoverer of a jackal's horn becomes thereby invincible in every lawsuit, and must irresistibly triumph over every opponent.
The jackal turned to fight, but he was no match for the greyhound, and in a few minutes he was lying dead on the ground, while the greyhound was trotting peacefully back to the shepherd. The Adventures of the Jackal's Eldest Son Now, though the jackal was dead, he had left two sons behind him, every whit as cunning and tricky as their father.
I swaggered and shrugged and played harlequin and boaster. We were soon to learn that Starling's quiet was not impervious. I saw him start. His hand flew to where his knife had been, and his teeth showed like a jackal's. A figure that had lain, blanket-shrouded in the shadow, had risen and come forward. It was Pemaou.
"Yes, you shall!" returned the tiger, in a rage at the jackal's stupidity; "I'll make you understand! Look here I am the tiger " "Yes, my lord!" "And that is the Brahman " "Yes, my lord!" "And that is the cage " "Yes, my lord!" "And I was in the cage do you understand?" "Yes no Please, my lord " "Well?" cried the tiger impatiently. "Please, my lord! how did you get in?"
But this time Miss Crocodile knew better than to wait, and being now dreadfully angry, she crawled away to the Jackal's hole, and slipping inside, lay quiet. By and by Mr. Jackal came lilting along with his tail up. 'Ho! ho! That is your game, is it? said he to himself, when he saw the trail of the crocodile in the sandy soil.
'Yes, you shall! returned the tiger, in a rage at the jackal's stupidity; 'I'll make you understand! Look here I am the tiger 'Yes, my lord! 'And that is the Brahman 'Yes, my lord! 'And that is the cage 'Yes, my lord! 'And I was in the cage do you understand? 'Yes no Please, my lord 'Well? cried the tiger, impatiently. 'Please, my lord! how did you get in?
Sweet as the harp of David, the night- breeze and the music of the water come up from the sea; but the ripple and the rustling sound alternate with the hyena's laugh, the jackal's cry, and the wild dog's lengthened howl.
The Bushmen will not give their children a jackal's heart to eat, lest it should make them timid like the jackal; but they give them a leopard's heart to eat to make them brave like the leopard. When a Wagogo man of East Africa kills a lion, he eats the heart in order to become brave like a lion; but he thinks that to eat the heart of a hen would make him timid.
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