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Updated: May 21, 2025
"Of a truth I scarcely know," answered the shepherd. "It may be that I am bewitched, or dreaming, for my adventure passes all belief," and he related it. The princess made no comment, but motioned to him that he should follow her. He did so and she placed food before him. He was ravenously hungry and did full justice to the meal. Then she led him to the bath chamber.
As no more could be done for him, the others turned their attention to their own meal, and, being ravenously hungry, did full justice to the food before them, averring that they had never in the whole course of their lives tasted anything half so enjoyable, thus conclusively proving the truth of the statement that "hunger is the very best sauce."
"Here, catch hold, if you're feeling peckish." He thrust a loaf into my hands and I fell on it ravenously, plucking off a crust and gnawing it while I trotted beside him. "Got to feed her blessed swans now!" he muttered. "The deuce is in her for perversity to-night." He kept growling to himself, knitting his brow and pausing once or twice for a moody stare.
Got a bad fall and when I come to I was lying down the hill against some greasewood. Leg a'most busted and an arm as bad. Horse nowhere around. Got anything to drink? Snow ain't much for thirst." De Launay had food and water and gave it to him. After eating ravenously for a moment he was stronger. "Funny thing, that horse nickerin'. It was snowin' and I didn't see him.
"Show 'im, Willie." Willie held up his hand and showed the man the shining coin. "Why, where, did you get that?" asked the man. That's a lot of money for a little chap like you to have." "I found it," said Willie, "and now we're goin' to 'ave some breakfast, ain't we, Bob?" The children ate their meal ravenously, the man watching them meanwhile.
Besides the beans were fried salt pork, boiled potatoes, canned corn, mince pie, a variety of cookies and doughnuts, and strong green tea. Thorpe found himself eating ravenously of the crude fare. That evening he underwent a catechism, a few practical jokes, which he took good-naturedly, and a vast deal of chaffing. At nine the lights were all out.
Doubtless, he begged the pardon of Heaven for allowing it to be mixed up in what he regarded as childish pastime, for exposing it to ridicule in connection with an affair in which there was only sickliness and dementia. But his flock suffered so much, hungered so ravenously for the marvellous, for fairy stories with which to lull the pains of life.
The country, I am of opinion, would abound with birds did not the natives, by perpetually setting fire to the grass and bushes, destroy the greater part of the nests; a cause which also contributes to render small quadrupeds scarce. They are besides ravenously fond of eggs and eat them wherever they find them. They call the roe of a fish and a bird's egg by one name.
But as the day wore on, the picnic idea had languished, and the stone-breaking grew more and more to resemble hard work. The warm spring sunset had begun to color the western sky; the meadow-larks had gone to bed, and the stone-breakers were tired and ravenously hungry as hungry as only wolves or country boys can be. The visitors suggested that they ought to be going home.
They had gone nearly twenty-five miles that day, and an equal distance still separated them from the station of Allahabad. The night was cold. The Parsee lit a fire in the bungalow with a few dry branches, and the warmth was very grateful, provisions purchased at Kholby sufficed for supper, and the travellers ate ravenously.
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