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They roam the fields and thickets and do not seem especially afraid of man, scuttling into the underbrush perhaps with their whistling squeal, but just as likely to sit back on their haunches and offer to fight. The mortality among them at this time must be great. Foxes pick them up and feed them to their own young. Hawks and owls do the same and dogs find them an easy prey.
I saw first one leg come out of his bed-place, then another, as he stretched them forth; then up went his arms, and I heard a loud yawn. It was rather more like a grunt. Then he began to growl, and to make all sorts of other strange noises, and finally he lifted up his head and gradually sat upright on his haunches.
What did the great writer say? 'Vermin creatures no more worthy of pity than the tiger or the rat. How true! And yet Blink!" For his dog, seated on her haunches, was looking at him with that peculiarly steady gaze which betokened in her the desire for food. "Yes," mused Mr. Lavender, "pity is the mark of the weak man.
"She shineth forth, a moon, and bends, a willow wand, * And breathes out ambergris, and gazes, a gazelle. Thereupon she came forward, swinging her haunches and gracefully swaying a shape the handiwork of Him whose boons are hidden; and each of them stole one glance of the eyes that cost them a thousand sighs.
"Miracour" leading, "Bluebell" falling behind, and the "King" creeping up easily to the second place. The first fence placed nearly half the horses out of the running; the next threw out two more, though the "King" cleared it in his stride, so close in the wake of his rival that a speck of white foam flecked the haunches of the leader. Adrien nodded approvingly.
Quick as a flash Tharon Last lifted the rifle that lay ready on her pommel and sent a shot whining toward him. "Just to show we mean business," she muttered to herself. The cowboy caught the warning and drew his running horse up to slide ten feet on its haunches. He had meant to warn his boss, but a chance was one thing, certainty another.
He would persist in sitting down on his haunches, despite frequent invitations to use a chair how is it all Orientals can do this, and not one European out of fifty? Lao Chang afterwards informed me that this man's wife had just presented him with a second son, and great jubilation was taking place.
The armour, which covers the whole body, consists of a triangular plate on the top of the head, a large buckler over the shoulders, and a similar one covering the haunches; while between the solid portions a series of transverse bands intervene in such a manner as to allow the creature to move its body in a variety of postures. The tail is likewise covered with a series of calcareous rings.
This time it was a three-legged lynx, which sullenly squatted on its haunches and allowed itself to be dragged through the dust by a rope tied into its collar. "You needn't be the least mite afeard of that bobcat," protested Mr. Crowther, cheerily; "he's a perfick pet, and wouldn't hurt the infant in its cradle." The cat rolled back its lips and snarled. Mr.
That same evening as soon as she had exhibited her treasures to Powhatan and to his envious squaws and had related her impressions of the town and wigwams of the palefaces, she busied herself in getting together baskets of corn, haunches of dried venison and bear-meat and sent them by swift runners to "her brother" at Jamestown.
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