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Updated: June 21, 2025
Here is a water-carrier, whose terra-cotta water-jars are slung from a bamboo carried on his shoulder, another man bears on his head a tray upon which a charcoal fire is cooking a strong-smelling "tit-bit" some hungry labourer will presently enjoy.
His gaze fell on Simson headed toward him followed by the water-carrier. He staggered to his feet, Reardon's arm about him. "Keep 'Baldy' away," he muttered. "I'm all right; but don't let him get to me." Reardon looked at his white face for a second in doubt. Simson was almost up to them. He wanted to win, did Reardon, and "All right here," he cried.
"They were without water for all that time and in August?" cried Shere Ali. "No," the Doctor answered. "But they would have been had the Sepoy not found his equal. A bheestie" and he nodded his head to emphasise the word "not a soldier at all, but a mere water-carrier, a mere camp-follower, volunteered to go down to the river.
"It is Lucius, the water-carrier," he said, as shortly as he dared speak to his master. "It is a Christian song that he is singing." "Ah!" Aurelius selected a large, rosy peach, covered with burnished down and deliciously cold, from the dish presented to him by Alexis.
The stage road was deserted save for an early, curly-headed schoolboy, whom he found lurking on the bank, but who evaded his company and conversation. He returned to the camp quite cured of his fancy. His late zeal as a water-carrier had earned him a day or two's exemption from that duty.
Sure enough, after a while it became light that was neither sunlight nor moonlight; then the sweeper came forth and swept the ground, the water-carrier sprinkled it, the carpet-bearers placed the rugs, and last of all, to the sound of music the glittering procession swept out.
The snake-charmer, the story-teller, the beggar, the water-carrier, the incense seller, whose task in life is to fumigate True Believers, all who go to make the typical Moorish crowd, were to be seen indolently plying their trade. But inquiries for mules, horses, and servants for the inland journey met with no ready response.
The alguazil replied that he was a water-carrier, known by the name of the Asturian, and the boys in the street used to shout after him, "Give up the tail, Asturiano; give up the tail." The alguazil then related the story out of which that cry had grown, whereat all present laughed not a little.
The service in the house was already over; the priests of whom one wore a calotte, and the other, rather younger, had most carefully combed and oiled his hair appeared with all their retinue on the steps. The coffin too appeared soon after, carried by a coachman, two door-keepers, and a water-carrier. Mr.
"Such, O pacha, is the history of Yussuf, the water-carrier." "Yes, and a very good story too. Have you not another, Menouni?" "Your highness," replied Mustapha, "the caravan will depart at break of day, and Menouni has but three hours to prepare. It can no longer be detained without the chief making a report to the authorities, which would not be well received."
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