Identifier: stnicholasserial371dodg (find matches)
Title: St. Nicholas (serial)
Year: 1873 (1870s)
Authors: Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905
Subjects: Children's literature
Publisher: (New York : Scribner & Co.)
Contributing Library: Information and Library Science Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Digitizing Sponsor: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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perched onhis young masters shoulder, with his long tailcurled about Teds neck, and one hand clutchedfirmly in Teds hair. There was no other way to land; so Ted andAchmed made ready their luggage, and Achmed—still dressed in European clothes—called toone of the most promising-looking Moors; andthis man pushed his flat-bottomed boat—it wasbarely more than a -raft with a gunwale aroundit—close up to the steamers side. Achmeds speech was a purer Arabic than thatof most uneducated Moors; and, at this firstmeeting with them, as-also later, throughout hisjourney in Morocco, he was often taken to bea learned Moor or Arab who had traveled andstudied—a Thaleb, in short. Of course Ted and Achmed, active and strongand light in weight, found no great difficulty inaccommodating themselves to the tiny, crankyboats and to the backs of the watermen. But notall the passengers were so fortunate. One care-fully dressed man, who must have weighed overtwo hundred pounds, stood confused among the
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TED SWUNG SHARPLY AROUND AND WAS IN TIME TO SEE THE SLIDING PANEL CLOSE. (SEE NEXT PAGE.) Vol. XXXVII.-67. 529 530 THE VC NG WIZARD OF MOROCCO noisy, jostling Moors, and finally, \ L Sfcut usingmuch judgment, allowed himself to be taken incharge by a voluble, persistent little fellow whohad neither weight nor strength; and when thestout passenger settled down on his small portersback, the fellow staggered and nearly fell over;but he at once pluckily began picking his wayamong the rocks and around the pools; he madehard work of it, however, and his passengerfreely addressed harsh commands to him, tellinghim where to go and where not to go. Ted hadnot yet left the steamer, and laughed and laughedto see the stout passengers anxiety about hisnew clothes; for the water could have done himpersonally no serious harm. The overloaded and tottering Moor now tot-tered more than ever; and the next moment hegave out entirely, not pitching forward or slip-ping, but simply sinking down exhausted in

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