the peering sunlight of these marvels flare into his soul and brighten his mind with the ferocity which the ships dragon eye-stones engender upon savages and barbarians ... an image he now knows in this instant of revealing light is falsethat the ships dragons eyes are false stones , because these , these ... he stands , rises without effort , is beside king benjamin ... suddenly awake ! frak starts to giggle , then choke-laughs , then bursts out into a hard belly laugh ... being consumed by laughter , from barely a squeak into a snorting guffaw into a shrieking high-pitched tone of ecstatic raucous screech ... delight , furious delight , maddening delight ... a flurry and flutter of mirth and merry which finally erupts into a yipping , giggling , feet jiggling and hopping laughter of his full bodyit is the merriment of one enjoying a hearty and pleasurable joke ... sheer foolishness , with an old friend .