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What though she milk no cow with crumpled horn, Yet, aye she haunts the dale where erst she stray'd: And, aye beside her stalks her amorous knight! Still on his thighs his wonted brogues are worn, And through those brogues, still tatter'd and betorn, His hindward charms gleam an unearthly white; As when through broken clouds, at night's high moon.
Smith, endangering the flow of the story by suggesting to the narrator that he must "hark back," which to him was equivalent to the jumping of a chasm hindward. Happily his brain had seized a picture: "Mr. Tinman, he's a-standin' in his best Court suit." Mr. Tinmau's old schoolmate gave a jump; and no wonder.
Smith, endangering the flow of the story by suggesting to the narrator that he must "hark back," which to him was equivalent to the jumping of a chasm hindward. Happily his brain had seized a picture: "Mr. Tinman, he's a-standin' in his best Court suit." Mr. Tinmau's old schoolmate gave a jump; and no wonder.
Not until long after were we to know that it had been the dying hand of Serku, groping out of oblivion, that had cast it after us as a fowler upon an escaping bird. "Snappy work, Rador!" It was Larry speaking. "But they cut the end off your bus all right!" A full quarter of the hindward whorl was gone, sliced off cleanly. Rador noted it with anxious eyes.
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