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Updated: June 21, 2025
I hastened back to the prison, and after a long argument with the authorities, I managed to gain permission to see the prisoner once more. I found Shin Shira all eagerness to know if I had secured the crystal, and when he saw it in my hand, his joy knew no bounds. "Now it is all easy," said he, "and I shall soon be free.
"With pleasure," said Shin Shira; and settling himself more comfortably in "the Toad," resting his elbows on the arms of the chair, and placing the tips of his fingers together, he told me the following story. "The very last place in which I appeared before turning up here, was in the grounds of the Palace belonging to the Grand Panjandrum " "Where is that situated, if you please?"
Through the black woods rang the sound of a sword clanging against a steel shin guard. Peter leaped to his feet. "James! John!" Through the gnarled trees the men saw a sight that struck terror into their hearts: led by Roman soldiers, a mob carrying torches was advancing toward them. The yellow flames whipped in the wind and cast hideous twisting shadows as they came nearer the Garden.
"But I never did set any store at all by these here government chaps with their little satchels and tree doctor books. I'd just as soon walk up to an apple tree and hand it a blue pill or a shin plaster." Kit slid hastily down from the post as Mr. Hicks' black and white horse turned in from the road. "Hello," he called out, cheerily. "How be you, Jerry? Howdy, Philemon?
I will not repeat the remark he made, but I may explain that he was gouty. His son suddenly became afflicted with a sense of the absurdity of the situation. He kicked me on the shin, he even dared to wink, and then began to swell visibly with suppressed laughter. I was in agony, for if he had exploded I do not know what would have happened.
"It will be something to write about," suggested the Dwarf, "and will undoubtedly make your fortune." "Well," I said, "what is it? Let's hear." "Do you remember where Sinbad the Sailor got his diamonds from?" "Yes, of course!" I replied, for I knew my Arabian Nights by heart. "Very well, then," said Shin Shira.
Like a flash the invalid chair caught Berrington on the shin, and sent him sprawling across the floor; the chair sped on and there was a sudden click and the room was in darkness. Berrington had a quick mental picture of where different objects were and he made a dash for the switch.
And so, amid the most bitter reproaches, although I left no stone unturned in my hopeless search for Lionel and Shin Shira, several days flew by, till one morning I nearly leaped from my chair in surprise and delight, at seeing the following report in the paper
"I tuck out en shin down de hill, en 'spec to steal a skift 'long de sho' som'ers 'bove de town, but dey wuz people a-stirring yit, so I hid in de ole tumble-down cooper-shop on de bank to wait for everybody to go 'way. Well, I wuz dah all night. Dey wuz somebody roun' all de time.
'How shall I be sure, I said, that the Gods to whom I pray will abide at all? This I thought, and the Rewah dropped her nose as a hammer falls, and all the sea came in and slid me backwards along the fo'c'sle and over the break of the fo'c'sle, and I very badly bruised my shin against the donkey-engine: but I did not die, and I have seen the Gods.
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