boab

On one side is a raised stone platform, seat for the "boab" or door-keeper, and other servants of the house.

It was a grand panorama that the climbing moon lighted up all around Mount Boab, a vast billowy sea of gloom and sheen.

The house stands there now, weather-beaten and lonely on the peak of Mt. Boab, all tenantless and forlorn.

One of them was a very quiet-looking fellow who dryly stated that he was the high sheriff of Mt. Boab county.

Boab was not intractable, but he was sagacious; he had been fed on that sort of chaff too long.