They Did Not Want To Look
At Them; And We, Who Made Calico And Glass And Knives, And All
Sorts Of Wonderful Things, Could Not Want Things From Aru To Look
At.
They had evidently been thinking about it, and had at length
got what seemed a very satisfactory theory; for
The same old man
said to me, in a low, mysterious voice, "What becomes of them
when you go on to the sea?" "Why, they are all packed up in
boxes," said I "What did you think became of them?" "They all
come to life again, don't they?" said he; and though I tried to
joke it off, and said if they did we should have plenty to eat at
sea, he stuck to his opinion, and kept repeating, with an air of
deep conviction, "Yes, they all come to life again, that's what
they do - they all come to life again."
After a little while, and a good deal of talking among
themselves, he began again - "I know all about it - oh yes! Before
you came we had rain every day - very wet indeed; now, ever since
you have been here, it is fine hot weather. Oh, yes! I know all
about it; you can't deceive me." And so I was set down as a
conjurer, and was unable to repel the charge. But the conjurer
was completely puzzled by the next question: "What," said the old
man, "is the great ship, where the Bugis and Chinamen go to sell
their things?
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