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The militia officer would have done better to let the dissatisfaction find its vent in jokes; for, deprived of this outlet, the malcontents took to whispering among themselves in a manner that boded ill for something or somebody. But he was too busy securing each new recruit and each horse to give attention to the signs that might have warned him.
George knew only too well then what this visit boded, but he was quite helpless; so, putting the best face he could upon the matter, he answered as cheerfully as he could, and directed that all hands should be summoned on deck. "I hope, however," he remarked to the officer, "that you will not deprive me of any of my crew.
"Black hound," said Ranald, "whose throat never boded good to a Child of the Mist, ill fortune to her who littered thee! hast thou already found our trace? But thou art too late, swart hound of darkness, and the deer has gained the herd." So saying, he whistled very softly, and was answered in a tone equally low from the top of a pass, up which they had for some time been ascending.
"You see, sir," said the colonel, correcting him with a slow deliberation that boded no good "you see a Southern gentleman blank it! who has stood at the head of his profession for thirty-five years, obliged to work like a blank nigger, sir, in the dirty squabbles of psalm-singing Yankee traders, instead of er attending to the affairs of er legislation!"
Then the king asked him how far off was the advancing forest; and when he heard that it was near, he added that this prodigy boded his own death. Hence the marsh where the shrubs were cut down was styled in common parlance Deadly Marsh. Therefore, fearing the narrow passages, he left the town, and went to a level spot which was more open, there to meet the enemy in battle.
Lyle was quick to note the situation, and also to detect in Haight's face an expression of ill-concealed triumph, and as their eyes met, he read that in her face that boded no good to himself. Mr.
Two members of the unemployed were making the snow fly at the DuPree's with an earnestness which boded ill for their youthful competitors. "Let's try Southern Avenue," said John. "Perhaps there won't be anyone there." No sooner said than done.
All round there lay a patchwork of small fields all over the slopes of the hills, and the snow had come upon them tentatively, but already the birds of the waste had moved to the sheltered places for every omen boded more to fall. Far away some little hills blazed like an aureate bulwark broken off by age and fallen from the earthward rampart of Paradise.
Then followed the elevation of the host, the bowing of the heads, the raising of the standard of the Cross; and a new era, that has not boded well for the Pimas and Papagoes, was ushered in. Then the Indians scattered to their antelope plains and to the mountains; and the priest went on to the Mission of San Xavier del Bac.
As the bell struck I hurried on deck not one moment too soon for as I stepped out of the scuttle I saw the third mate coming forward with a glitter in his eye that boded no good to laggards. Before going any farther I must apologize for using so many capital I's, but up till the present I had been the only available white member of the crew forrard.
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