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Sounboat would drop down here suddenly; but it

alasted its tiuns and powder ever was found; and yet the British Raj knew that

soently and

vigorously sought

On the beach fisher A sloop with a lateen sail

lay at anchor in the rude harbor So

nets, and so boats Beyond the

beach nestled a few huts Toward these other fishere--the head man--disembarked from this sloop

He was met by his wife and child, and the little one cla the huts stood onethan the

others, and toward this the chief and his family wended their way In

front of the hut stood an empty bullock cart Attached to one of the

wheels was a frisking kid The little child paused to play with her

pet

Absorbed in her pasti with matted hair and beard and ash-besifted with an instinct which leaves us as we grow older; the sensing

of evil without seeing or understanding it The child suddenly gazed

up, to meet a pair of eyes black and fierce as a kite's She rose

screaed and waited

When the parents rushed out to learn what had frightened their little

one they were solery"

The chief salaa the holy man rice and

milk

"Thou art an honest ravely