And Ukleet continued, 'What a fortune is yours, O Boolp! truly the tide
of fortune setteth into your lap. Fail not, wullahy! to come with all
you possess, or if you have not enough when she requireth it to complete
the bargain, my mistress will break off with you. I know not if she
intend even other game for you, O lucky one!'
Boolp hitched his girdle and shrugged, saying, ''Tis she will fail, I
wot,--she, in having therewith to complete the bargain between us. Wa!
wa!--there! I've done this before now. Wullahy! if she have not enough
of her rubies and pearls to outweigh me and my gold, go to, Boolp will
school her! What says the poet?--
''Earth and ocean search, East, West, and North, to the South,
None will match the bright rubies and pearls of her mouth.''
'Aha! what? O Ukleet! And he says:
''The lovely ones a bargain made
With me, and I renounced my trade,
Half-ruined; 'Ah!' said they, 'return and win!
To even scales ourselves we will throw in!'''