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You should have marched, like me, with a rope round your neck, travelling to your grave in the living body, and seen their horrid sacramental forms and hangman's ceremonies and then, at every reluctant step, as the struggling feet were thrust forward, to see the infernal machine, on which I was to be elevated, glaring more and more hideously in the blaze of a noonday sun and the hangman's rapscallions watching for their prey and the horrible psalm-singing the cursed twang still rings in my ears and the screeching hungry ravens, a whole flight of them, who were hovering over the half-rotten carcass of my predecessor.
Into this a man's carcass is dumped, covered over with moss, and left with the assurance that it will rise on the crack of Doom, wholly and frigidly intact. For those of little faith, sceptical of material integration on that fateful day, no fitter country than the Klondike can be recommended to die in. But it is not to be inferred from this that it is a fit country for living purposes.
The hide is sold, and the proceeds divided equally among the hunters, but the meat is cut up into as many pieces as there are partners in the chase; then one man goes indoors or behind a tree, and somebody at the carcass, laying his hand on a portion, calls out: "Whose piece is this?" "Granville Calhoun's," cries the hidden man, who cannot see it. "Whose is this?" "Bill Cope's."
The youth crept inside the skeleton to shelter himself from the wind, and, while he slept there, down swooped a great bird, which lifted up the carcass and the unconscious youth in it. The bird flew with its burden to the top of Solomon's tower, and set it down on the roof before the very door of the imprisoned princess.
Klussman, full of his own bitter and confused thinking, looked blankly down at her heated countenance. "Give me thy back!" sang the dwarf in the melodious scream which anger never made harsh in her. "Faith, yes, and my entire carcass," muttered the Swiss. "I care not what becomes of me now." "Madame Marie sent you to escort me to this turret. You have the honor because you are an officer.
So far as Enderby and I were concerned we were quite able to control ourselves; but no sooner did the four Dagoes set eyes upon the gold coins with which one of the chests was filled than they threw themselves upon that chest, as starving wolves might throw themselves upon a carcass, and proceeded to stuff their pockets with coin.
Steve instantly threw his gun up to his shoulder, and at the same instant he heard Max at his elbow saying: "Steady, Steve, steady! Look out, he's going to jump." The wildcat had evidently found the hanging carcass not a great while before. At the time the three boys approached he had been regaling himself as he clung to the upper part of the dangling buck.
"And then Brument pushed down my head as if to drown me, so that the water ran into my nose, so that I could already see Paradise. And he pushed it down, and I disappeared. "And then he must have been frightened. He pulled me out and said: 'Go and get dry, carcass. "As for me, I took to my heels and ran as far as M. le cure's.
The buffalo carcass had not been the only occupant of the wallow. Jack nudged Scout Trudeau, and pointed with his thumb. A king rattle-snake, over four feet long and as thick as their arm, was gliding for them, and the carcass. His head was up, his tongue shot in and out; possibly the carcass was his tipi at any rate, they had annoyed him, and he was declaring war. Now what to do?
Having covered the carcass well over with branches to protect it from the vultures, I returned to camp, and, inspanning my wagons, took it up on the march. We continued trekking on until sundown, when we started an immense herd of buffaloes, into which I stalked, and shot a huge old bull. Our march this evening was through the most beautiful country I had ever seen in Africa.
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