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The superintendent took it up, examined it and then replaced it on the table with a nod, saying, "Proceed." "Well, sir, of course I looked well for the other shoe, but didn't find it; so I came away with what I had got, takin' care to place a lump of a stone over the foot-print in the clay, so as to guard but not touch it, for it wasn't the print of this shoe, sir, though somewhat like it."
"I see what you mean, Susquesus; and, I allow, it may be a foot-print," I answered; "but then it may also have been left by anything else, which has touched the ground just at that spot. It may have been made by a falling branch of a tree." "Where branch?" asked the Indian, quick as lightning. "Sure enough; that is more than I can tell you.
"And you are just like my father and are considered the best hunter among the Santees and Sissetons. You have killed many grizzlies, so that no one can object to my bear's-claw necklace," I said appealingly. White Foot-print smiled. "My boy, you shall have them," he said, "but it is always better to earn them yourself." He cut the claws off carefully for my use.
Approaching the deity having the bull for his mark one should rub himself with ashes. If a Brahmana, he obtains the merit of observing the twelve year's vow and if belonging to any of the other orders, he is freed from all his sins. One should next proceed to the Udyanta mountains, resounding with melodious notes. There, O bull of the Bharata race, is still seen the foot-print of Savitri.
His over-mastering desire to go to sea, his being cast up by the breakers on the island, his endless labors, and the resolute determination which overcame them, his dangers, fears, and the consolation of religion, the foot-print on the sand, the companionship with Friday, and the final release, are recollections of our childhood too familiar to be dwelt upon.
Suddenly Chagres Charley fired, and the boys faced to the right a moment later another shot rallied the party; those nearest it found Nappy Boney in a high state of excitement, and leaning over a foot-print. "Mon Dieu!" he cried; "they have not the esprit, those Mexicans; but her footprints might have been made by the adorable feet of one of my countrywomen, it is so small."
Three years afterwards, in 1858, on the eve of departure for France and Italy, he began to sketch the outline of a romance laid in England, and having for its hero an American who goes thither to assert his inherited rights in an old manor-house possessing the peculiarity of a supposed bloody foot-print on the threshold-stone.
As they pursued the trail they occasionally saw the foot-print of the animal, which was broad and deep, indicating one of enormous size.
'You see. Toole nodded hurriedly; and just then the maid came out to ask him to see her mistress. 'I say, my good woman, said Lowe; 'just look here. Whose foot-print is that do you know it? 'Oh, why, to be sure I do. Isn't it the master's brogues? she replied, frightened, she knew not why, after the custom of her kind.
But now I could hear no sound, save only the vast and audible hum of the silence of the universe. There was, however, the foot-print. If my eye and ear should so conspire against me, that, I thought, was hard. Still I lay, still, in that same pose, without a stir, sick and dry-mouthed, infirm and languishing, with dying breaths: but keen, keen and malign.
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