I tell you the tale, or some of it, and I offer you the bribe because I see that you need money, and I am sure that without the chance of winning money you will not hazard your life in this desperate search.
But I love my mistress so well that I am ready to hazard mine; ay, I would give six lives, if I had them, to save her from the shame of the slave.

Now, White Man, we have talked enough; is it a bargain ?" "What do you say, Otter ?" asked Leonard, thoughtfully pulling at his beard, "you have heard all this wonderful tale and you are clever." "Yes, Baas," said the dwarf, speaking for the first time, "I have heard the tale, and as for being clever, perhaps I am and perhaps I am not.

My people said that I was clever, and that is one of the reasons why they would not have me for a chief.

If I had been clever only, they could have borne it, they said, or if I had been ugly only, but being both ugly and clever I was no chief for them.

They feared lest I should rule them too well and make all the people to be born ugly also.