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"You don't catch me in that house at this time of night," said Hugh grimly. "How about coming out here to-morrow, then?" "To-morrow's Saturday, isn't it?" "Yes." "All right," said Hugh. "I'll come out with you." "And now we'd better go home." "I guess we had. It must be nearly midnight." They arose from their cramped positions on the ground and stealthily began to retrace their steps.

To lie in such a cramped position, hour after hour, day after day, was enough to break the spirit of any warm blooded creature that lives. It was an exquisite form of torture not long to be endured. And to get his single meal a day at Mr. Traill's place Bobby had to watch for the chance opening of the wicket to slip in and out like a thief.

I felt cramped sitting in a canoe all day, but I enjoyed myself in spite of the continuous and heavy rain. Late in the afternoon we arrived at the small village of Namuamua, on the right bank of the river, with the village of Beka on the other side. We were given a small hut all to ourselves, and we fared sumptuously on duck and boiled yams.

Bertha, the slim, fair-haired girl, whose present thoughts and emotions were an enigma to me amidst the fatiguing obviousness of the other minds around me, was as absorbing to me as a single unknown to-day as a single hypothetic proposition to remain problematic till sunset; and all the cramped, hemmed-in belief and disbelief, trust and distrust, of my nature, welled out in this one narrow channel.

In the other tent he ate his bread and dates and drank his coffee or received the humblest of his passing brothers; those who, scorched with heat, tortured with thirst or hunger, and blinded with flying sand, yet would not exchange one minute of their own free desert life for an eternity of soft couches and the most succulent effort of a cordon bleu in the cramped surroundings of a crowded city.

"Well, it ain't wise to be cramped. Maybe you wouldn't get your growth if you were." He cast a glance toward the short, thick-set figure behind him. "I say, Mr. Burns," burst out Walter, "are you terribly busy? I've got something I want to show you." "What is it?" demanded the man, halting and holding suspended in his hand a cerulean blue egg case.

With the hope of getting rid of her unwelcome guests, Lady Vaux revealed one of the "priests' holes" to prove there was nothing in her house beyond a few prohibited books; but this did not have the desired effect, so the unfortunate inmate of the hiding-place had to continue in a cramped position, there being no room to stand up, for four or five days more.

Garibaldi submitted to her caress with a condescension worthy of the position her name gave her, and the other goats crowded to the open door, eager to leave their cramped quarters. "Not yet, my dears," Lucia said softly, "it isn't time. Here, Esther, I will milk you first.

For fourteen souls to be tossed about on the wide and stormy sea, during many weeks, it might be months, in a small open boat, crowded together and cramped, without sufficient covering, and on short allowance of food, was indeed a dreary prospect, even for the men how much more so for the delicate child who shared their trials and sufferings?

I knew very well that if I wanted to escape a severe illness, the only thing to do was to keep moving until my circulation was restored. So I got going. It was hard work at first. My limbs were so cramped and stiff that I was compelled to stop and groan after crawling every six paces. But the stiffness wore off gradually.