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Subpose you gibe one fowl he make lucky we get good pearl. Must be white fowl. Black fow!" Months have elapsed since the sacrifice of the white fowl and the pouring of its blood to the accompaniment of droning supplications on the face of the contemptuous sea, and albeit the divination was cheerfully suspicious, the sulky jade still look askance, and Hamed is still far from Jeddah.
Put clothes clean white like anything. Sit down. One day eat nothing. Then feast plenty. Good goat of my country more fatter." "No messin' abeaut. Plenty talk with friend. Walk about bazaar. Full up people clean, nice. No row nothing. Subpose I make lucky. I find one pearl, I go along my own country for Ramadan!"
Alonga my country too many. Come out alonga ground, bend over, go down. Subpose me go close up kill 'em along spear, run away and plant. Bi'mby come back, find plenty red stone, yalla stone. Fill 'em up dilly-bag. Old man bin tell 'em. Me no go close up along Muhr-amalee. Too fright!"
Under conditions and circumstances all in favour, the diver relies upon an inevitable infirmity on the part of the oyster for the revelation of its whereabouts. "When man he dibe," says Hamed, "that go'lip quick he shut 'em mout. Carn see 'em. Subpose open mout, man quick he see 'em shove-em alonga beg." At the peril of its life the oyster gapes. "Last night I bin drim. My word good drim.
Subpose boat drowned, I swim along shore, tie em Nelly along a string," meaning that in case of a capsize he would swim to dry land, towing his dutiful, trustful spouse. Although by nature a true lover of the sea, his knowledge of the plant life of the coast was remarkable. Among his mental accomplishments was a specific title for each plant and tree. His almanac was floral.
His skill as a sailor of small boats is largely a manifestation of characteristic caution, his precept being "Subpose big seas come one, one all right. Subpose come two, two look out!" In Life and In Death She was called "Little Jinny" to distinguish her from another of the blacks about the place a great, good-natured, giggling creature who laughs perpetually and grows ever fatter.
I am tired. That dunkee tired. B'mbi that dunkee he talk. He say 'Hamed, you good man, you kind man. Subpose you no hammer me too much I take you up, alonga Medina one time quick. I say, 'I no want hammer you. My word, that dunkee change! dunkee before, horse now Arab horse. Puff! We along Medina! Wind bin take 'em!" With the wind in his favour Hamed does wonders even now at sea.
"Now, Mister, subpose I no say nothing to my good friend I am reech man of my country. I drink Mocha coffee. I am too poor. Suppose I go to my country, back from Aden, I carn drink coffee I am too poor, I drink coffee from outside. Inside coffee, we sell for reech people you Inglesh, and Frinch, and Turkey men." "What do you mean by outside coffee?"
It was, a pleasant, gentle rain, too, nothing of the violent and hasty character such as Tom had designed, but again he had a plausible explanation. "Subpose I bin put that mil-gar in water deep, too much rain altogether. We no want too much rain now. After Christmas plenty."
Subpose you no shoot one time straight, look out." The shot was never fired. I asked Tom what he would have done suppose the revolver had been fired and he not killed. "My word! Subpose that fella he no kill me one time, I finish him one time quick alonga tomahawk!" In the course of the day the half-crown was found under the stern sheets, where the boss had been sitting.
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