Oh! what if the child should wake and cry.

It was done; I rose and saluted the king.
Then I doubled myself up and passed from before him.

Scarcely was I outside the gates of the Intunkulu when the infant began to squeak in the bundle.

If it had been one minute before! "What," said a soldier, as I passed, "have you got a puppy hidden under your moocha, (1) Mopo ?" (1) Girdle composed of skin and tails of oxen.-ED.
I made no answer, but hurried on till I came to my huts.

I entered; there were my two wives alone.
"I have recovered the child, women," I said, as I undid the bundle.
Anadi took him and looked at him.
"The boy seems bigger than he was," she said.
"The breath of life has come into him and puffed him out," I answered.
"His eyes are not as his eyes were," she said again.