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Updated: June 10, 2025
"Who's funking it?" demanded Lionel angrily. "Well, you didn't seem to have much desire to repeat your experiences, my friend," laughed Shin Shira. "My head and ears just happened to arrive in time for me to gather that." Lionel turned very red. "Oh well, sir, I did have rather a rough time on the Magic Carpet, you know." "So you did, so you did," agreed Shin Shira, amiably beaming on us all.
A loud bellowing, combined with a dull sound of galloping hoofs, told us that something was coming our way. I rushed to the door and looked out. "Good heavens! A mad bull!" I cried, "tearing this way at a furious pace." Shin Shira sprang to the opening.
I'll send him a letter stating that I cannot go to him." And here I endeavoured to dismiss Shin Shira and his affairs from my mind. I was so worried about the matter, however, that I couldn't settle to work, so I lit my pipe and settled myself in my easy-chair to think the matter out. Poor little fellow!
"I I don't know," I stammered. "I must have time to think." "I should have diamonds," advised Shin Shira: "they're so easy to carry and can always be converted into money. Command him to bring you a bag full of diamonds of all sizes." "But, but," I said hesitatingly, as visions of untold wealth floated before my eyes, "will he really do it?" "Try him and see," said Shin Shira.
But I cannot be considering the hills so beautiful as my own glens, my own little glens, that no one, I'll be fancying, is acquainted with to the heart but me and the red deer, and maybe a hunter or two. Of course, we have the big glens, too, and I would like it if I could show you Shira Glen " "The best of it was once our own," said Doom, black at brow.
"Shin Shira Scaramanga Manousa Yama Hawa," repeated the Yellow Dwarf; "but you needn't say it all," he added hastily, seeing, I suppose, that I looked rather distressed, "Shin Shira will do; in fact, that's what I am always called. Well, to continue.
"Well, never mind," said I, "it is evidently set in the right direction; for see, we are heading straight across the Pond, and there's Shin Shira walking round to be there to meet us when we go ashore," and I settled myself down comfortably to enjoy the pleasant trip. "Hullo! Look at that!" cried Lionel a moment or two later, pointing to the shore.
"Hullo there!" shouted a voice over our heads, "who are you? We've never before heard that these mountains were inhabited." "Neither are they," replied Shin Shira. "We are geologists from Baghdad, and are taking home specimens of the rocks and stones." "Oh, we're going to Baghdad.
The three of us I have mentioned sat at last playing cartes in the ferry-house, where a good glass could be had and more tidiness than most of the hostelries in the place could boast of. By the stroke of midnight we were the only customers left in the house, and when, an hour after, I made the move to set out for Glen Shira, John Splendid yoked on me as if my sobriety were a crime.
"It's very dirty wants cleaning badly," declared Shin Shira. "Why, I believe it's solid brass, though it looks like rusty iron in its present neglected state," and he seized a duster which was lying handy and gave the lamp several smart rubs. "Just as I thought," said he, going on vigorously with the polishing. "Why, it's splendid " "Oh!" I exclaimed, sinking into a chair.
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