the food. He complained of this when the horrid creature had gone away, but the two servants said, “What would you have? She is not a woman, she is a goblin.” They told Ruru to slip away; their mistress heard them and was violently angry. She attacked the servants, but they ran hither and thither; then one hid within a rock and the other in a carved figure on the gable of the house. In the confusion Ruru escaped and returned to the other men who had been waiting for them. When Kara saw him running away she cried after him “O Ruru, I will not follow you now, but on the day when the fog comes thickly down I will be with you.”
seized
ti-mid′-i-ty
guest
prep-a-ra′-tion
beach
crea′-ture
cab′-in
per-sua′-ded
con-fu′-sion
em-barked′
carved
at-ten′-dants
set′-tle-ment, a place where people are living who have not long resided there.
se-cre′-ted, hid away, concealed.
chief′-tain-ess, the female ruler or leader of a tribe.
un-can′-ny, ghostly, not like human beings.
LESSON XXIII.
THE SERPENT WOMAN,
(Continued.)
Ruru and his brothers consulted together how they might destroy the goblin. They resolved to build a little hut and to decoy her into
