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He knew, however, that I had always admired his literary gifts; but I confess that the feet of clay began to creep into view when he told me, one night at the Martin, that his favorite novelist of all time was Marion Crawford! That explained so much to me that I had not understood before.
And now I should like to ask, WHO taught him all this? and me, through him, that the foolish head was not the one swinging itself from side to side and bowing and nodding over the music, but that other which was passing its shallow and self-satisfied judgment on a creature made of finer clay than the frame which carried that same head upon its shoulders?
Here all toiled solidly for two days, terracing a steep clay slope and making new homes. And here for some days with the Regiment the normal routine life of the Gallipoli summer campaign ran smoothly.
The campo was hard, composed chiefly of a stiff red clay soil, and covered with short grass in most places; but here and there were rank bushes of long hairy grasses, around and amongst which grew a multitude of the most exquisitely beautiful flowerets and plants of elegant forms.
They denounced the ambitions of Clay and the Westerners, who predicted an easy conquest of Canada, as merely an expression of a pirate's desire to plunder England of its colonies, and they announced their purpose to do nothing to assist the unrighteous conflict.
In order to enlighten them, Clay shouted, "Viva Rojas." And his men took it up, and the people answered gladly. They had reached the closely built portion of the city when the skirmish line came running back to say that it had been met by a detachment of Mendoza's cavalry, who had galloped away as soon as they saw them.
What a thing is this, that thy soul and its welfare should be more in thy esteem than all those glories wherewith the eyes of the world are dazzled! Surely thou hast looked upon the sun, and that makes gold look like a clod of clay in thine eyesight.
I suddenly descried a large beer hall which was more than half full. I walked inside, with no object in view. I was not the least thirsty. I glanced round to find a place that was not too crowded, and went and sat down by the side of a man who seemed to me to be old, and who was smoking a two-sous clay pipe, which was as black as coal.
The suggestion will probably have to come from the teacher, but the children will probably have the desire when it is suggested, and I hope we shall be able to go on enlarging our town on the pattern of the towns the children know. If they want bricks for their houses they can dig clay in the garden. "Report. The children wanted to make a tea-set, so we carried our clay outside.
George rested on his spade. "What are we to do, then? try somewhere else?" "Not till we have tried here first." "But you say there is nothing below this pipe-clay." "No more there is." "Well, then." "But I don't say there is nothing above it!!!" "Well, but there is nothing much above it except the gray, without 'tis this small streak of brownish clay; but that is not an inch thick."
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