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Updated: May 16, 2025
Stamboul, with her forest of minarets and her thousands of lights, stood out on the horizon against a lovely starry sky, and in the foreground the Seraskier sat in a big armchair, surrounded by an immense staff, seeming very philosophically resigned to the catastrophe over which he appeared to be presiding. In one hand he held his pipe, and in the other a slice of melon.
It's to be some swap too, runnin' up into six figures. "Chee!" thinks I. "That's an income, all right, with Tractions payin' between 7 and 9, besides cuttin' a melon now and then." They have their gen'ral offices three floors below us, you know.
And now, as I came on lower ground, I found at each step new objects of curiosity and interest. A tree with dark-yellowish leaves, taller than most timber trees on Earth, bore at the end of drooping twigs large dark-red fruits fruits with a rind something like that of a pomegranate, save for the colour and hardness, and about the size of a shaddock or melon.
The longshoreman, plainly crushed by it, sank lower on his step and covered his face. But the company cared little how he felt. Shouting gayly, chatting, smiling, waving to one another, all swarmed across the rose-bordered rail to embark at Johnnie's bidding. Last of all stalked the haughty Buckle to begin passing melon. "Ready! Let 'er go!"
"But why don't they give them away to the poor people?" Saxon asked. "They must keep up the price." "But the poor people cannot buy them anyway," Saxon objected. "It would not hurt the price." The old woman shrugged her shoulders. "I do not know. It is their way. They chop each melon so that the poor people cannot fish them out and eat anyway. They do the same with the oranges, with the apples.
"Señorita, I ask him to come to Rio," he said. She turned her large dark eyes scrutinizingly upon me, then dropped them again. She was arranging some melon seeds in a rayed circle round the lizard that looked motionlessly at her. "Do not speak very loudly, lest you awaken my father," she warned us. The old Don's face was still turned to the ceiling.
They eat any thing and every thing that comes in their way, from melon rinds and spoiled grapes up through all the grades and species of dirt and refuse to their own dead friends and relatives and yet they are always lean, always hungry, always despondent. The people are loath to kill them do not kill them, in fact.
'Do you find a princess objectionable, sir? 'Objectionable? She's a foreigner. I don't know her. I never saw her. Here's my Janet I've brought up for you, under my own eyes, out of the way of every damned soft-sawderer, safe and plump as a melon under a glass, and you fight shy of her, and go and engage yourself to a foreigner I don't know and never saw!
Unbuttoning his coat, he thrust them in; then he took the melon rind and broke it into very small pieces and threw them about. He then went up to his room and thrust the hanks, unobserved, one by one among the straw which, covered by an army blanket, constituted his bed. To-morrow, no doubt, Dan would supply him somehow with a screw-driver.
Why, from the very booby that would have bought the bruised melon for a sound one if you would have let him. You'll allow I'm no fool, Francisco, and that I'm in a fair way to grow rich, if I go on as I have begun." "Stay," said Francisco; "you forgot that the booby you took in to-day will not be so easily taken in to-morrow.
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