A child may drink the water and it will not hurt him, or if an old man takes it, it makes him gay.

Ah, I know the taste of it!" and she moistened her lips with the white fluid.

"It can hurt no one, but I will take no more of it, or old Hekt will be tormented with love and longing for thee; and that would ill please the rich young lord, ha! ha! If the drink is in vain I am paid enough, if it takes effect thou shalt bring me three more gold rings; and thou wilt return, I know it well." Paaker had listened motionless to the old woman, and siezed the flask eagerly, as if bidding defiance to some adversary; he put it in his money bag, threw a few more rings at the feet of the witch, and once more hastily demanded a bowl of Nile-water.
"Is my lord in such a hurry ?" muttered the old woman, once more going into the cave.

"He asks if I know him?
him certainly I do?
but the darling?
who can it be hereabouts?
perhaps little Uarda at the paraschites yonder.

She is pretty enough; but she is lying on a mat, run over and dying.