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The next morning at daybreak, Mr Gale whose watch it was at the time roused me up, and sent me to tell the captain that there was a strange sail on the starboard-bow, which seemed inclined to cross our fore-foot. The captain was soon on deck and examining the stranger with his glass. "Well, what do you make of her, Mr Gale?" he asked.
Her bow-gun was fired, and its shot, only a twelve-pounder, richochèd until it fairly passed our fore-foot, distant a hundred yards, making its last leap from the water precisely in a line with the stem of the Dawn. This was unequivocal evidence that the game could not last much longer, unless the space between the two vessels should be sensibly widened.
He shook the dust out of his mane and stamped his fore-foot to set the herd in motion. There were thousands of them feeding as far as the eye could reach, across the prairie, yearlings and cows with their calves of that season, and here and there a bull, tossing his heavy head and sending up light puffs of dust under the pawings of his hoof as he took up the leader's signal. "Wake! Wa ake!"
How absurd to imagine that the fore-foot of a poor dead rabbit, with which he timorously felt his way along through a life surrounded by snares and pitfalls, beset by enemies on every hand, can promote happiness or success, or ward off failure or misfortune!" "It is ridiculous," assented my wife, with faint interest. "Dat 's w'at I tells dese niggers roun' heah," said Julius.
She gave me a large bowlful, of which I drank very heartily, and found myself well refreshed. About noon, I saw coming towards the house a kind of vehicle drawn like a sledge by four Yahoos. There was in it an old steed, who seemed to be of quality; he alighted with his hind-feet forward, having by accident got a hurt in his left fore-foot.
Let him climb aboard or wade ashore!" Another cry came down the wind: "Breakers ahead!" "Where away?" "Not a log's length off her port fore-foot!" We had groped our slippery way forward, and were now bailing with the frenzy of despair, when we heard the mate's terrified cry, from far aft: "Stop that dashed bailing, or we shall be aground!"
Sandia's mosamela, or small carved wooden pillow, exactly resembling the ancient Egyptian one, was hung from the back of his neck; this pillow and a sleeping mat are usually carried by natives when on hunting excursions. We had the elephant's fore-foot cooked for ourselves, in native fashion.
The dame looked him in the face with a peculiar expression as she replied, "Smith! ay, truly is there a smith what wouldst ha' wi' un, mon?" "To shoe my horse, good dame," answered Tressiliany; "you may see that he has thrown a fore-foot shoe." "Master Holiday!" exclaimed the dame, without returning any direct answer "Master Herasmus Holiday, come and speak to mon, and please you."
For there where the hair joins the hoof, technically known as the "coronet" was a deep, jagged wound, such as is caused usually by a horse slipping and jabbing itself with sharp-pointed shoe-calks. The hoof itself was stained a dull red where the blood had run down. Slavin picked up a fore-foot and exhibited to them the round-pointed, screwed-in calks, commonly known as "neverslips."
There were a great many questions they wished to ask, as to what became of Howkawanda after that, and whether the People of the Dry Washes ever found their way into the Buffalo Country, but before they could begin on them, the Bull Buffalo stamped twice with his fore-foot for a sign of danger. Far down at the other end of the gallery they could hear the watchman coming.
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