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Updated: May 13, 2025
"No," said the fairy, "it's not a parade, but it is a grand merrymaking, and it's because of it that I've brought you here. But I'm tired and hungry, for we've come a long way, so let us sit down by the roadside a bit, and while we rest I'll tell you all about the goings on and what we have to do with them."
Old women and children stood in the gateways staring wonderingly at the long procession of vehicles, of which our carriage was a part, all obviously filled with pleasure-seekers and all inexplicable. Pretty girls, without stopping to wonder, accepted with satisfaction so joyous an outburst of merrymaking and unhesitatingly gave us their smiles.
Such a festival was not called an isinnu, but a nigatu, a 'merrymaking. More directly connected with the cult was a ceremony observed in Assyria upon the installation of an official, known as the limmu, who during his year of service enjoyed the privilege of having official documents dated with his name.
As every one had seen all they wanted they went out without disputing, though Lyamshin began pestering the police captain about something. The general merrymaking, laughter, and playful talk were twice as lively on the latter half of the way. We arrived at Semyon Yakovlevitch's just at one o'clock. The gate of the rather large house stood unfastened, and the approach to the lodge was open.
I recall it dimly, as a blaze of color passing: merrymaking, jesting, feasting, a rare contrast, I thought, to the sight I had beheld in Charlestown Bay but a while before. Yet so runs the world, strife at one man's home, and peace and contentment at his neighbor's; sorrow here, and rejoicing not a league away. Master Nicholas played one prank that evening that was near to costing dear.
Next, described as displayed on the shield, is a picture of spies at a distance, an ambuscade, and a battle; the scene then changes to ploughing and sowing, and the incidents connected with the gathering of a bountiful harvest; then are introduced a vineyard, the gathering of the grapes, and a merrymaking by the youths at the close of the day; then we have a wild outlying scene of herdsmen with their cattle, the latter attacked by two famished lions, and the tumult that followed.
In fact any girl in California, who hasn't been a queen of something before she's twenty-one, is a poor prune. In the country, especially in the wine districts where the merrymaking sometimes lasts for days, these festivals are beautiful.
When they entered they were deafened with the noise of carousing and merrymaking. Aben Hassen the Fool sat at the head of the table upon a throne of gold, with a canopy of gold above his head. When he saw the king and the minister enter, he beckoned to them to come and sit beside him. He showed them special favor because they were strangers, and special servants waited upon them.
Instantly Gonzague turned and whispered to Peyrolles: "He must not leave this place alive." And Peyrolles answered, confidently: "He shall not. Every gate is guarded by my spies." The king rose gravely and addressed the assembly. "Let us disperse, friends. What we have seen and heard leaves us in little mood for merrymaking."
Long before this time Weatherbury had been thoroughly aroused, and the wild deed which had terminated Boldwood's merrymaking became known to all. Of those out of the house Oak was one of the first to hear of the catastrophe, and when he entered the room, which was about five minutes after Boldwood's exit, the scene was terrible.
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