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This would doubtless lead him to read the best of our Puritan and Nonconformists' works, so that we find him using the Latin words primum mobile, carefully noting in the margin that he meant 'the soul'; and from hence he must have scraped acquaintance with Python, Cerberus, and the furies of mythology, whom he uses in this war, describing accurately their names and qualities.
With society as it is, and always will be, a welter of defectives and geniuses in small numbers and a vast majority of just plain men, with all that that implies, the breaking through into the imperial scale is simply a letting in the jungle; walls and palings and stockades, the delicate fabrics of architecture, the clever institutions of law, the thin red line of the army, all melt, crumble, are overcome by the onrush of primordial things, and where once was the white man's city is now the eternal jungle, and the vines and thrusting roots and rank herbage blot out the very memory of a futile civilization, while the monkey and the jackal and the python come again into their heritage.
The days were, as a rule, for the jackal, a succession of sleeping blanks, but at the end of this day it was the fate of a small python small for a python to hunt a pangolin who was as like a thin pineapple with a long tail, if you understand me, as it was like anything, or like a fir-cone many times enlarged, only it was an animal, and a weird one into that den of thieves. Mrs.
Now there's that big white python; the only specimen ever captured, the "pythonatus fluidum lactalis giganticus," says he. That was one trouble with Merritt; he'd get so stuck on the language which he manufactured that he couldn't leave it out, even in our business consultations, and it used up a lot of time.
It was as if an arrow of light had slain the Python coiled about my heart. If he believed, I could believe also; if he could encounter the vague dark, I could endure the cheerless light. I was myself again, and, with one word of endearment, left the bedside to do what had to be done. At length a faint hope began to glimmer in the depths of my cavernous fear.
Papita, sickened with fear, buried her face in her mother's bosom, weeping hysterically; Sicto, pale and trembling, grasped the window for support. "Ular-Sawa!" A little captive monkey whined pitifully. The massive creature, distracted by the sound, paused, head up, forked tongue darting in and out of the open jaws, for the Regal Python has no ears, but hears with its tongue.
Before long he acknowledged himself well pleased with the new environment, for his wife was far happier in draping dress goods upon the figures of her customers than in hanging python folds about her own, and he found his own fame growing with every day. His mediumistic gifts came into general demand.
"Here is the Python, and here Varus the Lictor, each stripped for the bout. Have a look at them, Barbarian, and see which you would choose. What does he say? He would take them both? Nay then he is either the king of wrestlers or the king of boasters, and we shall soon see which. Let him have his way, and he has himself to thank if he comes out with a broken neck."
"Say," he added, pointing, "what do you think of that for a creeper, over there? I'm sure I saw it climbing down off that tree." Jimmie took one look and started away, drawing Peter with him. "It's a python!" he exclaimed. "Come on." "There are no pythons in this country," Peter replied, pulling back and looking out over the water again. "It is a boa, then," Jimmie cried. "Come away.
'Help me, said the python, 'for I am Insato, King of all the Reptiles, and will reward you well! Gopani-Kufa considered for a moment, then stabbing the antelope with his assegai, he set the python free. 'I thank you, said the python; 'come back here with the new moon, when I shall have eaten the antelope, and I will reward you as I promised.
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