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We gave little Reechy, or as I usually called her Screechy, all the water we could get out of the well, with one of Tommy's boots; she drank it out of his hat, and they started away. I fully believed there was more water about somewhere, and I intended having a good hunt until either I found it or the party came.
I watched Tommy start, of course at full speed, for when he got a chance of riding Screechy he was in his glory, and as she was behind the mob, and anxious to overtake them, she would go at the rate of twenty miles an hour, if allowed to gallop; but much to my surprise, when they had gone about 200 yards along the grassy water-channel, apparently in an instant, down went Reechy on her knees, and Tommy, still in the saddle, yelled out to me, "Plenty water here! plenty water here!"
There goes 'the seld shown flamen, puffing his way to win a vulgar station, here is a 'veiled dame' who lets us see that 'war of white and damask in her nicely gawded cheeks, a moment; look at that 'kitchen malkin, peering over the wall there with 'her richest lockram' 'pinned on her reechy neck, eyeing the hero as he passes; and look at this poor baby here, this Elizabethan baby, saved, conserved alive, crying himself 'into a rapture' while his 'prattling nurse' has ears and eyes for the hero only, as 'she chats him. Look at them all, for every creature you see here, from 'the seld shown flamen' to the 'kitchen malkin, belongs soul and body to 'our gracious Empress, and Essex and Raleigh are still winning their garlands of the war, that is when the scene is taken, but not when it was put in its place and framed in this composition; for their game was up ere then.
Great men have been unfaithful to their marital vows, but it has been those of mediocre minds and india-rubber morals who have cowered at the feet of mistresses who have thrown their world away for reechy kisses shared by others. While it is true that the world's intellectual titans have seldom been he-virgins or feathered saints, they did not draw godlike inspiration from their own dishonor.
Young and Tommy, from their camels' backs, saw another mass of bare rocks further away to the north-west. I took Tommy with me, on Reechy, and we went over to the spot, while the party continued marching on; on arriving we found a very pretty piece of scenery.
England preferred old heroes and their claims to new ones. 'I fear there will a worse come in his place, was the cautious instinct. Bru. All tongues speak of him, and the bleared sights Are spectacled to see him: Your prattling nurse Into a rapture lets her baby cry, While she chats him: the kitchin malkin pins Her richest lockram 'bout her reechy neck.
Alec rode my little riding cow Reechy. I had a splendid gelding, which I named the Pearl Beyond all Price, though he was only called the Pearl. He was a beautiful white camel. Another cow I called the Wild Gazelle, and we had a young bull that afterwards became Mr. Tietkens's riding camel.
The secret was out; with a withering glance at Tommy and the camels, he silently walked away the lady following. All the riding camels and most of the pet baggage camels were passionately fond of bread. I always put a piece under the flap of my saddle, and so soon as Reechy came to the camp of a morning, she would come and lie down by it, and root about till she found it.
With the young ladies we met on our journeys through the settled districts, I took care that no accidents should happen, and always gave them Reechy or Alec's cow Buzoe. At the Greenough, a ball was given in the evening. Outside the town we were met by a number of gentlemen on horseback, and were escorted into it by them. On arrival we were invited to a lunch.
On the 10th of September everything was ready, and I departed, declaring that: "Though the scrubs may range around me, My camel shall bear me on; Though the desert may surround me, It hath springs that shall be won." Mounting my little fairy camel Reechy, I "whispered to her westward, westward, and with speed she darted onward."
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