the eyes it is perfect said under his breath playing with the old skin strange to see the covering of one s own head at one s own feet ay but i lack feet said and since this is the custom of all my people i do not find it strange does thy skin never feel old and harsh then go i and wash but it is true in the great i have wished i could my skin without pain and run i wash and also i take off my skin how looks the new coat ran his hand down the of the immense the is but not so gay he said the my name bearer is more gay but not so hard it is very beautiful to see � like the in the mouth of a lily it needs water a new skin never comes to full colour before the first bath let us go i will carry thee said and he stooped down laughing to lift the middle section of s the king s i great body just where the barrel was a man might just as well have tried to heave up a two foot water main and lay still puffing with quiet amusement then their regular evening game began � the boy in the flush of his great strength and the in his new skin standing up one against the other for a match � a trial of eye and strength of course could have crushed a dozen had he let himself go but he played carefully and never of his power ever since was strong enough to endure a little rough handling had taught him this game and it his limbs as nothing else could sometimes would stand almost to his throat in s shifting striving to get one arm free and catch him by the throat then would give way and with both quick moving feet would try to the purchase of that huge tail as it flung backward feeling for a rock or a stump they would rock to and fro head to head each waiting for his chance till the beautiful statue like group melted in a whirl of black and yellow and struggling legs and arms to rise up again and again now said making with his head that even s quick hand could not turn aside look i touch thee here little tke second book the second book brother here and here are thy hands here again the game always ended in one way � with a straight driving blow of the head that knocked the boy over and over could never learn the guard for that lightning and as said there was not the least use in trying good hunting at last and as usual was shot away half a dozen yards gasping and laughing he rose with his fingers full of grass and followed to the wise snake s pet bathing place � a deep black pool surrounded with rocks and made interesting by sunken the boy slipped in fashion without a sound and across rose too without a sound and turned on his back his arms behind his head watching the moon rising above the rocks and breaking up her reflection in the water with his toes s diamond shaped head cut the pool like a and came out to rest on s shoulder they lay still in the cool water it is very good said at last now in the man pack at this hour as i remember they laid them down upon hard pieces of wood in the inside of a mud trap and having carefully shut out all the dean winds drew foul cloth over their the king s heavy heads and made evil songs through their noses it is better in the a hurrying slipped down over a rock and drank gave them good hunting and went away said as though he had suddenly remembered something so the gives thee all that thou hast ever desired little brother not all said laughing else there would be a new and strong to kill once a moon now i could kill with my own hands asking no help of and also i have wished the sun to shine in the middle of the rains and the rains to cover the sun in the deep of summer and also i have never gone empty but i wished that i had killed a goat and also i have never killed a goat but i wished it had been buck nor buck but i wished it had been but thus do we feel an of us thou hast no other desire the big snake demanded what more can i wish i have the and the favour of the is there more between sunrise and sunset now the said began what he that went away just now said nothing he was hunting it was another the second hast thou many dealings with the poison people i give them their own path they carry death in the fore tooth and that is not good � lor they are so small but what hood is this thou hast spoken with rolled slowly in the water like a steamer in a beam sea three or four since said he i hunted in cold which place may be thou hast not forgotten and the thing i hunted fled shrieking past the and to that house whose side i once broke for thy sake and ran into the ground but the people of cold do not live in knew that was talking of the monkey people this thing was not living but seeking to replied with a quiver of his tongue he ran into a that led very far i followed and having killed i slept when i i went forward under earth even so coming at last upon a white hood a white who spoke of things beyond my knowledge and showed me 