Had I not reproved him with a shake of the head, he would quickly have shaken off this useless adornment.
Vast crowds of the Roundbodies covered the plain as far as the eye could reach.
Children rolled in troops after their parents, like marbles chasing up a cannon ball.
At times I observed that the mothers, in order to amuse their little ones, or to quell some discussion which had broken out among them, halted by the wayside, and catching up three or four of them, tossed them into the air as a juggler does his balls, sometimes keeping three or more of them on the fly and one in each hand.
It was a strange sight, and amused me so much that I quite insisted upon halting the wedding procession in order that I might observe it more closely.
But the fair Rōlâ-Bōlâ was very impatient, and chided me in unmeasured terms for my lack of dignity.
In fact, I now began to notice a very evident desire on the part of the managers of the wedding arrangements to hurry things up.
King Bô-gôô-gôô ever and anon turned an anxious eye toward the horizon.
And then there would follow a whispered consultation with the soothsayers and magicians.
Behold me at last mounted upon my—scaffold, I had almost said—for such it seemed to be.