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Updated: June 18, 2025
'Son of an owl, where dost thou go? This to the grinning carter. 'Ai! Yai! Yai! That within there is the Queen of Delhi going to pray for a son, the man called back over his high load.
The astute young king, who in his priestly character had penetrated many state secrets, advanced to greet him, and with the double purpose of procuring the adherence and testing the fidelity of this discontented and wavering son of his stanch old champion, the Duke Somdetch Ong Yai, appointed him on the spot to the command of the army, under the title of Phya P'hra Kralahome.
Let's have a squint at it!" yelled the juniors. "Give her to the Bug-hunters." "The cat looked at the King and died of it! Hoosh! Yai! Yaow! Maiow! Ftzz!" were some of the cries that followed. Again Richards appeared. "She've been" he checked himself suddenly "dead a long taime." The school roared. "Well, come on out for a walk," said Stalky in a well-chosen pause.
And yan, if it wes his mynd and will yat he should be disponit vpoun, ye said deaconis and craftismen sould convey him yaire; quha answerit, yat yai culd na way stope ye executioun of justice.
"Mael, mael, Kala Nag! Somalo! Mar! Arre! Arre! Hai! Yai! Kya-a-ah!" he would shout, and the big fight between Kala Nag and the wild elephant would sway to and fro across the Keddah, and the old elephant catchers would wipe the sweat out of their eyes, and find time to nod to Little Toomai wriggling with joy on the top of the posts. He did more than wriggle.
"Hai Yai, so bright a day, so clear!" said Mitiahwe as she entered the big lodge and laid upon a wide, low couch, covered with soft skins, the fur of a grizzly which had fallen to her man's rifle. "Hai-yai, I wish it would last for ever so sweet!" she added, smoothing the fur lingeringly, and showing her teeth in a smile. "There will come a great storm, Mitiahwe.
Moreover, Ong Yai had taken the precaution to surround the persons of the princes with a formidable guard, and to distribute an overwhelming force of militia in all quarters of the city, ready for instant action at a signal from him.
Thus more than two months passed, and I had desperately settled down to my Oriental studies, content to snub the Kralahome with his own indifference, whilst he, on the other hand, blandly ignored our existence, when, to my surprise, he paid me a visit one afternoon, complimented me on my progress in the language, and on my "great heart," or chi yai, as he called it, and told me his Majesty was highly incensed at my conduct in the affair of the fish-market, and that he had found me something to do.
He then selected twelve noblemen, distinguished for their attainments, prudence, and virtue, most conspicuous among them the venerable but energetic Duke Somdetch Ong Yai, to be tutors and guardians to the lad.
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