"I feel as if I had been beaten all over with sticks, and am as hungry as a hunter." "Ibrahim will have some food ready in half an hour, Father, and I shall be glad of some myself.

Though, you know, we all had some chupatties he bought." "They were better than nothing, Dick, but a pancake or two does not go very far, with men who have been travelling since ten o'clock last night.

Well, lad, I am glad that you have got rid of your beard, and that, except for that brown skin, I am able to have a look at you as you are.

You will be bigger than I am, Dick--bigger by a good bit, I should say, and any father might be proud of you, much more so one who has been fetched out from a captivity from which he had given up all hope of escaping.

As it is, lad, words can't tell how grateful I feel, to God, for giving me such a son." "My dear Father, it is Mother's doing.