In Court and Kampong _ Being Tales and Ske - Sir Hugh Charles Clifford

reefs out of the cocks' limbs. Then the word is given to start the fight, and the birds, released, fly stra ...

bird, draggled and woebegone, with great patches of red flesh showing through its wet plumage, with the memb ...

old kerosine tins, fight like demons. Goats sit up and strike with their cloven hoofs, and butt and ...

experienced these things at the hands of the small boy and the water-buffalo; and, when both have disappear ...

cynically contemptuous and indifferent, or sullenly cruel,—are for once full of life, anger, passion, ...

one upon the other, while each strives to get a grip with the point of its horns upon the neck, or ch ...

mighty blowing and snorting of the breathless bulls, lift succeeds lift with amazing rapidity. Th ...

at one time or another, experienced in nightmares, the agony of attempting to fly from some pursuing phan ...

Footnotes: [8] Diam! = Be still! ...

THE WERE-TIGER Soul that is dead ere life be sped, Body that's body of Beast, With brain of a man ...

human being, would seem to be based upon an extremely cynical appreciation of the blood-thirsty character ...

things have happened in the past, and are daily occurring to them and to their fellows. Some are struck ...

contents of their packs had been disposed of, for Haji Äli took a fancy to the place. Therefore he ...

fallen to the lot of most wives under similar circumstances. She had no complaint to make ...

tearing her garments and her flesh with thorns, catching her feet in creepers and trailing vines, stumblin ...

to rise, when morning ablutions have been carefully performed, and the first sleepiness of the w ...

'It is as thou wilt, O Pĕnghûlu,' said the oldest man of the party, answering for his fellows, 'we follow ...

'Hast thou the skin, O Äbas?' asked the Pĕnghûlu, 'for I am renewing the faces of my drums, and would ...

returned, more or less dissatisfied, some five days later, he found that Haji Äli and his sons ...

THE AMOK OF DÂTO KÂYA BÎJI DĔRJA I have done for ever with all these things, —Deeds that were ...