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I dare say, inside all the melons we sold there were as good or better than these. No wonder that woman was so anxious to buy them all! See, father see, mother see, sisters!" Then they were all overjoyed to see the treasure, but the Brahmin said, "What a pity we have lost all the benefit of my son-in-law the Jackal's good gift by not knowing its worth!
Snakes take a long time to die, or to seem dead, even with a double set of glistening sharp teeth scrunching as hard as their owner knows how into their neck. At last, however, after a final series of efforts to get, and keep, in the shape of a letter S, the python's tail gradually ceased to feel for a hold, and the writhing strain in the jackal's jaws relaxed.
Beholding the opportunity, the former ministers addressed the king, saying, 'The jackal is ever ready to take away from all of us the means of sustenance. Having represented this they once more spoke of the jackal's act of robbing the king of his food. And they said, 'Such then is his act! What is there that he would not venture to do? He is not as thou hadst heard.
The Mexicans used actually to make a kind of fetish or charm of a jackal's skin, prepared in a peculiar way, and called by the same name, nezahualcoyotl, and very likely they do so still.
"Forced his paw through," said Compton, shuddering, "but the jackal bit him." The jackal's tail thumped the ground, then they felt it stiffen, and were again on the alert. Venning ran his fingers lightly along the jackal's back till he reached the nose, which was pointing straight up. Without a moment's delay he raised his rifle and fired.
"Come, let us go and make a fire, I can sleep no more," she said; "I have heard a strange thing tonight. Your father said it was a jackal's cry, but no jackal cries so. It was a child's voice, and it cried, 'Master, master, wake!" The women looked at each other; then they went to the kitchen, and made a great fire; and they sang psalms all the while.
Afterwards, the little Bushman, who crouched over the fire, sat up suddenly, listening. "Ha! what is that?" he said. A Bushman is like a dog: his ear is so fine he knows a jackal's tread from a wild dog's. "I heard nothing," said the navvy. "I heard," said the Hottentot; "but it was only a cony on the rocks."
Then they all hid again and fired heavily at the rocks that hid our men; but our men were clever and did not show, but moved away and away, always south; and the noise of the battle withdrew itself southward, where we could hear the sound of big guns. So it fell stark dark, and Sikandar Khan found a deep old jackal's earth amid rocks, into which we slid the body of Kurban Sahib upright.
Thus Amset, with a human head, presided over the stomach and large intestines, and was the judge of Hades; Hape, with the head of a baboon, presided over the small intestines; Soumautf, the third genius, with a jackal's head, was placed over the region of the thorax, presiding over the heart and lungs; and the last, Kebhsnauf, with the head of a hawk, presided over the gall-bladder and liver.
The kites and the vultures had left the bare bones by thousands to bleach upon the sands, and the hillocks of brown earth rose in crowds where those, more cared for in death, had been hastily thrust beneath the brown crust of the earth. The dead had received their portion of reward in the jackal's teeth, in the crow's beak, in the worm's caress.
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