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So, a king of Kish, whose name is read Alu-usharshid by Professor Hilprecht, brings costly vases of marble and limestone from Elam and offers them to Bel as a token of victory; and this at a period even earlier than Sargon.
'Here we turn, he explained. 'Not so far that way, maybe two hours, we find more water. Then we go that way, and he indicated that they must bear off a little to the south, 'and more water. Then we sleep in shade. Then at night, not too far, see your place. It came about that all that Kish Taka had predicted was so.
Toddie came to my arms, shed tears freely upon my shirt-front, and finally remarked, "Wantsh you to love me!" I kissed Toddie, and petted him, and at length succeeded in quieting him. He looked earnestly, confidingly, in my eyes, and then said, "Kish my dolly, too!" I obeyed. My forgiveness was complete, and so was my humiliation. I withdrew abruptly to write an apology.
Several times Howard stopped to drink; the Indian drank once only before their arrival at the spring. Here they rested and ate. The night was already far advanced and glorious with its blazing stars, and they did not tarry long. In half an hour they moved on again. As day was breaking Kish Taka led the way up a steep-sided mesa and, catching Howard's arm, pointed out toward the east.
He had a son named Saul, a man full grown and handsome; no one among the Israelites was more handsome than he. From his shoulders and upward he was taller than any of the people. Now the asses of Kish, Saul's father, were lost. So Kish said to Saul, "Take one of the servants with you and go, look for the asses."
This was "one of the servants" of Kish, Saul's father; not the steward or the chief of them not at all a picked man, but "one of the servants;" any one that could be most easily spared, as no endowments specially rare would be likely to find scope in looking after asses.
And, when Sandy Weaver had mentioned certain tracks to him, he had stared over his shoulder and turned white! Truly, there were many questions to ask; but Howard refrained from asking them. 'This Indian has played a white man's part to me, he told himself. 'And his business is his own and not mine. 'Come, said Kish Taka abruptly out of the silence into which they had sunk. 'Cool now, we go.
Then the literary critic steps in and shows how the belief in immortality has been enlarged and elaborated since the days of Saul, the son of Kish. When the witch of Endor saw gods ascending from the earth, she was only anticipating the experience of sorcerers who ply their trade in the islands of the Pacific.
In the first two dynasties, which had their seats at the cities of Kish and Erech, we see gods mingling with men upon the earth. Tammuz, the god of vegetation, for whose annual death Ezekiel saw women weeping beside the Temple at Jerusalem, is here an earthly monarch. He appears to be described as "a hunter", a phrase which recalls the death of Adonis in Greek mythology.
He smell out the trail of the man not the frien' of Kish Taka. Now, Kish Taka say, "Dog, go home." And he gone. Yonder. He swept his long arm out toward the north. 'Far? 'Running, answered Kish Taka, 'he go three day and night. Running he come back, other three day and night.
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