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Updated: June 17, 2025
He was communicative even for a Somali, and began by pointing out, on the right of the road, the ruins of a stone-building, called, as customary in these countries, a fort. Beyond it we came to a kraal, whence all the inhabitants issued with shouts and cries for tobacco.
Even the most splendid of the Sultan's palaces are built in this combustible way: for I believe that they had a notion that stone-building was presumptuous, though I have seen some very thick stone-houses in Galata. This place, I remember, lived in a constant state of sensation on account of nightly flares-up; and I have come across several tracts already devastated by fires.
"I'm so glad," chuckled No. 8 with a grin, as he clapped one little fat hand down upon the other on his lap in complete satisfaction. "Go on, please." "Was the large stone-building a prison, Aunt Judy?" inquired No. 7. "That depends upon your ideas of a prison," answered Aunt Judy. "What do you suppose a prison is?"
"There were once upon a time eight little Victims, who were shut up in a large stone-building, where they were watched night and day by a set of huge grown-up keepers, who made them do whatever they chose." "Don't make it TOO sad, Aunt Judy," murmured No. 8, half in a tremble already. "You needn't be frightened, No. 8," was the answer; "my stories always end well."
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