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"Well, I reckon I c'n handle dogs better'n I can a pen," he said, "an' when you come to try an' write one o' these schedules on scraps o' dried skin you c'n count it sure's shootin' there's some decipherin' got to be done."
Where did you come from, anyway?" Mrs. Paine looked appealingly at him: "Let him get his breath, can't you, see, he is all in," she said quietly, "he'll tell you, when he can speak." In a couple of hours, Peter Neelands, draped in a gray blanket, sat beside the fire, while his clothes were being dried, and rejoiced over the fact that he was alive.
He rapidly pursued his way, performing two days' journey in one, and soon came to a forest full of wild asses. Oppressed with hunger, he succeeded in securing one of them, which he roasted over a fire, lighted by sparks produced by striking the point of his spear, and kept in a blaze with dried grass and branches of trees.
He was utterly exhausted, and even in the dusk the men noticed it. "Here, Ned," said Obed, "take a chew of this. You may not feel that you need it, but it will be a good thing for you." He extended a strip of dried venison. Ned thanked him and ate, although he had not felt hungry. By and by he grew stronger, and then Bowie called to him. "Ned," he said, "crawl across the floor again.
He snatched the electric torch, and together they peered at the patch from which the dried earth had fallen. "Queer for hardpan to break up like that," muttered Ronicky, cutting into the surface beneath the patch, with the point of his hunting knife. Instantly there was the sharp gritting of steel against steel. The shout of Ronicky was an indrawn breath.
The first served as a hall, an anteroom, and a place of storage for corn, beans, and dried fish. The second the largest of the three was at once kitchen, workshop, dining-room, drawing-room, school-room, and bed-chamber. The third was the chapel. Here they made their altar, and here were their images, pictures, and sacred vessels.
After several moments, she asked: "How long must we stay?" "I know not. Had I not better take the boat and go to the wreck for more food?" "No, not to-night," she answered with a shudder. "I prefer to go without food than to be left an hour alone in the approaching night." He had a sea-biscuit in his pocket, which he gave her and made his own supper of dried fish.
But I found that the anti-Christians themselves had a contempt for woman's intellect; for it was their great sneer at the Church on the Continent that "only women" went to it. Or again, Christianity was reproached with its naked and hungry habits; with its sackcloth and dried peas.
At a word from Dias they all set to work to take the burdens off the animals. A place was cleared for the tents. When these had been erected Jose collected dried sticks. A fire was soon lighted, and Maria began to prepare breakfast. "Is it unhealthy here, Dias?" "Not here, senors; we are still many hundred feet above the plain.
"Around the wrist, an enormous iron chain, riveted and soldered to this unclean member, fastened it to the wall by a ring, strong enough to hold an elephant in leash. "I asked: "'What is that? "The Englishman answered quietly: "'That is my best enemy. It comes from America, too. The bones were severed by a sword and the skin cut off with a sharp stone and dried in the sun for a week.
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