Crossword-Solution: HIK 3 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 10

Now it fortuned, by the ordinance of Destiny and fore-ordained Fate, that the King had two stallions, own brothers,[FN#551] such as the Chosroe Kings might sigh in vain to possess themselves of one of them; they were called Sábik and Láhik[FN#552] and one of them was pure silvern white while the other was black as the darksome night.

The same word with the same meaning of "listening attentively," recurs in the next line in the singular, applying to the captain and the following pronoun "la-há" refers in both passages to "Hikáyah," tale, not to the lady-sultan who reveals herself only later, when she has concluded her narrative.--ST.] [FN#40] Here the converse is probably meant, as we have before seen.

When these boys return to their distant _toldos_ to tell "the news" to their dark-minded parents, the most wonderful of all to relate is "Liklamo ithnik ñata abwathwuk enthlit God; hingyahamok hikñata apkyapasa apkyitka abwanthlabanko.

But in case the novice should be puzzled at only finding nineteen triangles instead of the required twenty, I will point out that the apparently missing triangle is the outline HIK.

The priests and certain wise men were the depositaries of this mysterious but highly useful art, that was called _hik_ or "magic"; and one of the chief differences between gods and men was the superior degree in which the former were endowed with magical powers.