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"When you get everything fixed, I'll bring you the little vase I got for Christmas, and my prayer-book, and oh, yes, my rosary, to put on the altar. And, then," he went on, quite seriously, "there's my catechism, and the little chalk angel, and " "The little chalk angel!" repeated Abby, scornfully. "Why, that has lost its head!" "But it's a little chalk angel all the same," argued Larry.
Queer enough they are, too, and so many that if you were to hear them all you would think that they were quite enough to prevent anybody's ever making a song at all; but the most important thing that the knight learns is that, while he is singing, the judge will make a mark with chalk every time he breaks a rule, and, if more than seven chalk marks are scored against him, he cannot be a master, and so cannot try for the prize that he wants so much to win to-morrow.
It's lots o' fun to you to shoot down a sick and starving-man in the Stockade, but when you see a Yank with a gun in his hand your livers get so white that chalk would make a black mark on 'em." A little later, a paper, which some one had gotten hold of, in some mysterious manner, was secretly passed to me.
In this eastern part of England, meanwhile, there is but little chance that an earthquake will ever do much harm, because the ground here, for thousands of feet down, is not hard and rocky, but soft sands, clays, chalk, and sands again; clays, soft limestones, and clays again which all act as buffers to deaden the earthquake shocks, and deaden too the earthquake noise. And how?
No one knew anything, I believe, about them, save that two or three kinds of them were found in chalk, till a famous Frenchman, called D'Orbigny, just thirty years ago, told the world how he had found many beautiful fresh kinds; and, more strange still, that some of these kinds were still alive at the bottom of the Adriatic, and of the harbour of Alexandria, in Egypt.
Portions of chalk, or stone, or condensed matters, adhere to each other, and masses of strange consistence and form are collected. The size which they assume increases more and more. M. Galy relates an extraordinary account of a dog. It was about three years old when a tumour began to be perceived in the flank.
'Run for the cliff-side, cried Elzevir to me; 'get close in, and they cannot touch thee, and he made for the chalk wall. But I had fallen on my knees like a bullock felled by a pole-axe, and had a scorching pain in my left foot. Elzevir looked back. 'What, have they hit thee too? he said, and ran and picked me up like a child.
"What did you find when you got there?" asked Elmer, who knew Landy to be long-winded, and that often the quickest way to learn facts from him was to put him on the grill. "Why, they were all upset," admitted Landy. "Mr. Condit was as mad as a bull in a china shop, and his wife was looking as white as chalk, yes, and scared, too.
From time to time his face lighted up, when, looking to the window, his eyes rested on some pretty scene a glimpse of stately old elm trees in a field where cattle were grazing, of the vivid green valley of a chalk stream, the paler hills beyond, the grey church tower or spire of some tree-hidden village.
Sometimes it flows out of a chalk cliff. This last is a hard spring: all the others are soft.
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