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His breathing became labored. His foot-pads were cut by thorns and sharp sticks, leaving now and then a trace of blood upon the moss. He thought with longing of the home den which he was widely circling, but to which he dared not turn. With the pack in full cry, the hunted beast broke from cover at the edge of the wilderness where stood the cabin of the Hermit.
He hid his new copies in his breast and called in Bias. “I am going out, but I shall not be late.” “Shall not Hylas and I go with lanterns?” asked the fellow. “Last night there were foot-pads.” “I don’t need you,” rejoined his master, brusquely. He went down into the dimly lighted street and wound through the maze of back alleys wherein Athens abounded, but Democrates never missed his way.
'There is something in life after all! he cried. 'I had forgot what it was like. Yes, even this is worth while. Wine, food, dry clothes why, they're worth dying, worth hanging, for! Captain, tell me one thing: why aren't all the poor folk foot-pads? 'Give it up, said the captain. 'They must be damned good, cried Herrick. 'There's something here beyond me. Think of that calaboose!
Lorry, escorted by Jerry, high-booted and bearing a lantern, set forth on his return-passage to Clerkenwell. There were solitary patches of road on the way between Soho and Clerkenwell, and Mr. Lorry, mindful of foot-pads, always retained Jerry for this service: though it was usually performed a good two hours earlier. "What a night it has been! Almost a night, Jerry," said Mr.
It had five well-marked foot-pads, an indication of long nails, and the whole print might be nearly as large as a dessert-spoon. "It's a dog," said I. "Did you ever hear of a dog running up a curtain? I found distinct traces that this creature had done so." "A monkey, then?" "But it is not the print of a monkey." "What can it be, then?"
"There is something in life after all!" he cried. "I had forgot what it was like. Yes, even this is worth while. Wine, food, dry clothes why, they're worth dying, worth hanging for! Captain, tell me one thing: why aren't all the poor folk foot-pads?" "Give it up," said the captain. "They must be damned good," cried Herrick. "There's something here beyond me. Think of that calaboose!
They looked like foot-pads, vagabonds, pirates, yet sat, as military custom required, exactly in the order of their rank; on the march and in the camp, every insurgent willingly obeyed the orders of the new leader, who by the fortune of war had thrown pairs-royal on the drumhead. One thing was certain: some decisive action must be taken.
He was very weary, but it refused to die. It was because it refused to die that he still ate muskeg berries and minnows, drank his hot water, and kept a wary eye on the sick wolf. He followed the trail of the other man who dragged himself along, and soon came to the end of it a few fresh-picked bones where the soggy moss was marked by the foot-pads of many wolves.
And here let me say, that, since of all the bullies, and braggarts, and bravoes, and free-booters, and Hectors, and fish-at-arms, and knight-errants, and moss-troopers, and assassins, and foot-pads, and gallant soldiers, and immortal heroes that swim the seas, the Indian Sword fish is by far the most remarkable, I propose to dedicate this chapter to a special description of the warrior.
One year a maverick yearling, strayed or overlooked by the vaqueros, kept on until the season's end, and so betrayed another visitor to the spring that else I might have missed. On a certain morning the half-eaten carcass lay at the foot of the black rock, and in moist earth by the rill of the spring, the foot-pads of a cougar, puma, mountain lion, or whatever the beast is rightly called.
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