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I re-read the correspondence, notably the letter which recommended him almost tenderly, I fancied to build a fourteen-foot brick wall at the end of his garden, and half-way through it a thought struck me which filled me with pure joy. The footman ushered in two men, frock-coated, grey-trousered, smooth-shaven, heavy of speech and gait.
There is a big rock under the water, just over there where you see that dark spot. He will be likely to rest there. It is a beautiful clean run fish. Now take my rod and cast well up stream and draw your fly back so that it will pass over that spot." "Oh, no, you try," she said, eagerly. "Isn't he a beauty!" But I insisted and she took the rod, a fourteen-foot split bamboo.
When the ten by fourteen-foot hole was made, boards to line and floor it were needed. Lumber was very cheap inferior, second-hand stuff was to be had for the asking and Yan found and carried boards enough to make the workroom. Rad was an able carpenter and now took charge of the construction.
His bestial face was drawn, and his eyes were red-rimmed for lack of sleep. The long whip, with the fourteen-foot stock and the lash of twenty-three feet, had not smacked for a long time; the sjambok had not been used upon the long-suffering wheelers. Huddled up in his ill-fitting clothes of tan cord, he sat on the waggon-box and slept, his head nodding, his elbows on his knees.
The centre of the camp is divided into small blocks, each with its fourteen-foot fence of poisoned wire; there are six huts in each block and about fifty prisoners quartered in each hut. When I was there the camp contained about three thousand prisoners French, Russian, English, and a few Canadians. But, to go back to my arrival. As we were marched into the camp we were a pretty sorry-looking lot.
"Hrrrrrr!" and they were ten or twelve feet. At thirty yards the Hounds were slipped an even slip; some thought it could have been done at twenty yards. "Hrrrrrr! Hrrrrrrr!" and the Warhorse was doing fourteen-foot leaps, not a spy-hop among them. "Hrrrrr!" wonderful Dogs! how they sailed; but drifting ahead of them, like a white sea-bird or flying scud, was the Warhorse.
And I'll send the Native Son in with Applehead's team and wagon, so you can haul out a thousand feet of lumber for a stage. Get it surfaced one side, fourteen-foot boards, sabe? And about twenty-five pounds of eight-penny nails. We've got the tools in our outfit. I wonder which pasture Applehead's team is running in. I'll have one of the boys get them up, unless "
There was a fourteen-foot drop to the street, and the man with the golden stubble on his chin and cheeks swung for a moment to gauge his landing. Quasimodo came after with the agility of an ape. The race down the street began with about a hundred yards in between. Down the hill they went, like phantoms. The distance did not widen. Bears will run amazingly fast and for a long while.
"Things began to look bad. We put the long-boat into the water. The second boat was ready to swing out. We had also another, a fourteen-foot thing, on davits aft, where it was quite safe. "Then behold, the smoke suddenly decreased. We re-doubled our efforts to flood the bottom of the ship. In two days there was no smoke at all. Everybody was on the broad grin. This was on a Friday.
The lower end of the butt, below the reel, fits into the socket of a huge extra butt of bamboo, which R. carries unconcernedly. To reach a distant hole, or to fish the lower end of a ripple, R. simply locks his reel, slips on the extra butt, and there is a fourteen-foot rod ready for action.
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