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Bring them here for us to see, and then we'll pay the owners." Within half an hour they had the pick of a score of capital little beasts. They looked them over carefully, chose the couple which seemed best suited to their needs, paid for them, and set to work to pack the traps on them. Within an hour after sunrise they were on the march.
We stopped every now and then that a cooling lotion might be applied to them, and he got over the ground as well as the rest of us. Our return journey gave us rather more anxiety than we had felt on the previous days. The knowledge that there were wild beasts on the island kept us constantly on the alert; but, for my part, I dreaded those huge serpents more than anything else.
Some men have become predatory animals, and as such seek out lairs as would the beasts of prey. The Chinaman possesses an instinctive reversion to old subterranean life.
The troops under him were, both in Italy and in Germany, the terror of the inhabitants, and when defeated were, from their pillage and murder, hunted like wild beasts. Bernadotte has by these means within ten years become master of a fortune of ten millions of livres. Many have considered Bernadotte a revolutionary fanatic, but they are in the wrong.
In proportion as the peasants approach and draw nearer each other, the sport advances, and it finishes when they all come close to the arbours, still shouting, and with nothing more behind them. Then the coaches return, the company quits the arbours, the beasts killed are laid before the King. They are placed afterwards behind the coaches.
Towards evening he found himself in a desert, and, look where he would, there was no such thing as a house or a man to be seen. 'What am I to do now? he thought. 'If I go to sleep here wild beasts will come and eat me!
"I think they've been driven out of the Arctic by the great cold, and have migrated south in search of food." "Then they smelled the horses and attacked them." "Truly so, Xingudan, and they or other wild beasts will come again. The ponies are our weakest point. The great meat-eating animals will always attack them." "But we must keep our ponies, Waditaka.
Inconsistent? ... yes! but are not men more inconsistent than the very beasts of the field their tyranny controls? What, as a rule, DO men believe in? ... Themselves! ... only themselves!
'The people, said the grave Pansa, 'are all delighted with the result. They were so much afraid the sports at the amphitheatre would go off without a criminal for the beasts; and now, to get two such criminals is indeed a joy for the poor fellows! They work hard; they ought to have some amusement.
The Indian, on his return home, carefully suspends his blowpipe from the top of his spiral roof; seldom placing it in an oblique position, lest it should receive a cast. Here let the blowpipe remain suspended, while you take a view of the arms which are made to slay the larger beasts of the forest.
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