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Updated: June 6, 2025
I looked at the fierce faces of the Isanusis before me, as they crept, crept like snakes. I glanced behind and saw the slayers grasping their kerries for the deed of death, and I say I felt like one for whom the bitterness is overpast.
Moreover, the till, besides being as yet nearly empty, was well out of reach; the counter was high and broad, and the shelving, sparsely filled with filthy looking black bottles, was fixed well back, so as to be out of the way of the whirling kerries which were often in evidence, especially on Saturday afternoons.
They were so much afraid that they left the gun and most of the other things. After that I fainted; it was silly, but those kerries of theirs are of rhinoceros horn I should not have minded so much had they been of wood, but the horn bites deep. That is all the story. It will please Baas Tom to know that I saved his gun. When he hears it he will forget his sickness and say 'Well done Otter! Ha!
Richard walked forward and at a sign from the captain, men sprang at him, lifting their kerries, to dash out his brains. Then suddenly in front of Richard there appeared something faint and white, something that walked before him. The soldiers saw it, and the kerries fell from their hands. The regiment behind saw it, and turning, burst away like a scared herd of cattle.
In the corners again were sticks, kerries, and two assegais, a number of queer-shaped stones and bones, handles of broken table-knives, bits of the locks of guns, portions of an American clock, and various other articles which this human jackdaw had picked up and hidden away.
Then the other two hit me with kerries great blows and my arms being tied I could not defend myself, though I knew that they would soon kill me; so I groaned and dropped down, pretending to be dead just like a stink-cat. "At last, thinking that they had finished me, the Basutos ran away in a great hurry, for they feared lest you might hear the shouting and should come after them with rifles.
The eyes still looked upward with a kind of passion in their depths. She remembered her husband's epithet, "ardent." It well described Mrs. Wade's eyes. Just now the ardour was for herself. She wondered why. "Thank you so very much," she said sweetly. "I don't think I could eat an egg, though. Your tea is delicious." "The cream is from your own Kerries. Mrs.
Great, gaunt fellows with tangled hair, who wore tattered skins upon their shoulders and seemed to have no possessions save some snuff, a few sleeping-mats, and an ample supply of large fighting shields, hardwood kerries or knob-sticks, and broad ixwas, or stabbing assegais.
"Ah, Mr. Coronado!" smiled Aunt Maria, delighted that her favorite had distinguished himself. "Captain Glover, what's the matter with your nose?" was the lady's next outcry. "Wal, it's been bored," replied Glover, tenderly fingering his sore proboscis. "It's been, so to speak, eyelet-holed. I'm glad I hadn't but one. The more noses a feller kerries in battle, the wuss for him.
So thick as bees the regiment formed up in front of him, shouting and waving their kerries, for here in the King's Place they bore no spears. "Make way there," said Richard, "I can stay no longer, I must to the north." The soldiers did not stir, only a captain stepped out bidding him give up his spear and yield himself, or be killed.
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