Truly, There Was No Sight So Sweet To "Mother" As That Of
Her Ragged, Travel-Stained Son; And Timoteo, The Strong Man, Wept.
The Fatted Calf Was Then Killed A Few Yards From The Doorstep, By
Having Its Throat Cut.
Offal littered up the doorway, and the
children in their glee danced in the red blood.
The dogs' tails and
the women's tongues wagged merrily, making us feel that we were
joined on to the world again. I was surprised to find that we were
days out of reckoning; I had been keeping Sunday on Thursday!
During this stay at Pegwaomi I nearly lost Old Stabbed Arm. The day
after we returned our hostess very seriously asked me if he might
marry her daughter. Thinking he had sent her to ask, I consented. It
was a surprise to learn afterwards that he knew nothing at all of the
matter.
Although Pegwaomi gained no new inhabitant, I secured what proved to
be one of the truest and most faithful friends of my life - a little
monkey. His name was Mr. Pancho. With him it was love at first sight,
and from that time onward, I believe, he had only two things in his
mind - his food and his master. He would cry when I left him, and hug
and kiss me on my return. Pancho rode the pack-mare into the village
of Concepcion, and busied himself on the way catching butterflies and
trying to grasp the multi-colored humming-birds hovering over the
equally beautiful passion-flowers growing in the bushes on each side
of the path.
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