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Updated: May 27, 2025
"Here, fellow," said I, "is a cheque on Child's for your paltry sum." "It may be a sheck on Shild's," says Mr. Nabb; "but I should be a baby to let you out on such a paper as dat." "Well," said I, "Child's is but a step from this: you may go and get the cash, just give me an acknowledgment."
There are threads of brilliant scarlet upon the hazel in February, though the gloom of winter lingers and the 'Shuck a sheck! of the fieldfare fleeing before the snow sounds overhead. On the slender branches grow green ovals, from whose tips tiny scarlet plumes rise and curl over.
The village, consisting of low huts, built of mud, is built round the walls of the fort, which is intended to serve as a place of retreat and defense for the inhabitants and their flocks, in case of alarm or attack. They are governed in the manner of the families of the patriarchs, the Sheck of the village being both judge and captain.
We told them that the Christians, in a case of this kind, would send not one but forty men, if necessary, to go and save a fellow creature from the horrible death of desert famine; and that heaven would surely require at their hands the life of this young man, if they neglected to save him At length the Sheck of the village promised me to send a dromedary to the place to-morrow morning.
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