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Now Tommy, who had been born on the ninth planet of the star Capella, was taking the Lhari starship to his faraway home, and Bart's father was coming back to Earth, on the same starship, to meet his son. Five years, Bart thought. That's a long time. I wonder if Dad will know me? "Let me give you a hand with that stuff, Tommy." "I can manage," Tommy chuckled, hefting the plastic cases.
He did not waste much time in reflection. Springing to his feet he vanished down one of the dark recesses of the mountain-side and was gone about an hour. When he returned he picked up an armful of the ivory a load that would have staggered three ordinary men and, hefting it easily in his arms, vanished with it into the dark shadows.
Much larger trout have been taken in these waters and in others, but this fish would have swallowed any three we had ever before caught. "What does he weigh?" was the natural inquiry of each; and we took turns "hefting" him. But gravity was less potent to us just then than usual, and the fish seemed astonishingly light. "Four pounds," we said; but Joe said more.
For a few minutes he sat gloating over the gift, admiring the bone handle, hefting the weight of the long blade, while the subchiefs gazed in envy. When he looked up his face was beaming. But then the sour-faced subchief at his left hand muttered something, and Suba's visage darkened.
"Here are bread and cheese; it will be a regular feast!" He could not help laughing, however, when he looked down and saw the goose lying at his feet. He raised it, examining and hefting it with the judgment of an expert. "Ah! upon my word, a fine bird! it must weigh twenty pounds."
There was much "hefting" and sometimes weighing of birds on the barn scales. We carefully inspected their skins under their feathers, for we sent the judge a "yellow skin," and never a "blue skin," however heavy. That autumn there was considerable difference of opinion among us which young gobbler, out of twenty or more, was the best and promised to "dress off" finest by Thanksgiving.
Then he spent some time in selecting a pair of cornel-wood fencing-swords of equal length and weight and of similar balance, repeatedly hefting the sword he had chosen and repeatedly asking Murmex whether he was satisfied with his sword, whether it suited him; and similarly of the choice of shields.
It took us two days to get there though, with the oxen; and the teams were loaded down well, with so many axes and the pork-barrels; I don't know anything like pork for hefting down more than you expect it to, reasonable. It was one of your ugly gray days, growing dark at four o'clock, with snow in the air, when we hauled up in the lonely place.
Is it ambition, business, or some freckle-faced Phoebe at home that you are heroing for? "'Well, Ben, says Sam, kind of hefting his sword out from between his knees, 'as your superior officer I could court-martial you for attempted cowardice and desertion. But I won't. And I'll tell you why I'm trying for promotion and the usual honors of war and conquest.
"We can take turns carrying the hind quarter," remarked Steve, hefting it; "after all, it doesn't seem so very heavy." "I'm going to wrap it in the skin, which I removed the first thing," Max continued. "But it's too bad to leave all the rest of our fine buck," sighed Steve. "Oh, don't think I mean to let the foxes and other animals make way with the rest of the venison!
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