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"You would have to let them shoulders down and pad a hump in your back," replied the little man. "Appearances can be radically changed but size is a handicap. There is a woman in Denver by the name of Wallace that can make you up to look like either an angel or a tramp.
"How it was exactly," continued the one-armed commander, "I do not know; but in biting the line, it got foul of his teeth, caught there somehow; but we didn't know it then; so that when we afterwards pulled on the line, bounce we came plump on to his hump! instead of the other whale's; that went off to windward, all fluking.
A Sokotran camel-man is a most dexterous packer. He must first obliterate his camel's hump by placing against it three or four thick felt mats or nummuds, and on this raised surface he builds all his luggage, carefully secured in his baskets, with the result that we never, during any of our expeditions with camels, had so little damage done to our property, even though the roads were so mountainous and the box-bushes were constantly rubbing against the loads.
"Thet feller I reecognized ... hit war old Hump Doane's own boy ... Pete Doane." Parish Thornton straightened up as though an electric current had been switched through his body. His face stiffened in amazement and the pain of sore perplexity. "Air ye plum onmistakably shore, Jerry?" he demanded and the little man nodded his head with energetic positiveness.
In its ranks was the coster with his cockney speech and cockney wit, his fear of great silences and his sense of loneliness and desolation away from the flare of gas-lights and the raucous shouts of the crowds in Petticoat Lane so that when I met him in a field of Flanders with the mist and the long, flat marshlands about him he confessed to the almighty Hump.
The addition of a single flower may be permitted, though this is like the admission of the camel's nose into the tent, it may lead to the entrance of the hump the monstrosity of the modern woman's bonnet, which of late years has by terms imitated a flower garden, a vegetable garden, an orchard, and, finally, with the Chanticler fad, a poultry-yard.
"You can't see it," explained Perry, peering anxiously out through the eyeholes, "but honestly, ole man, you look sim'ly great! Honestly!" A grunt from the hump acknowledged this somewhat dubious compliment. "Honestly, you look great!" repeated Perry enthusiastically. "Move round a little."
"You look as tired as before we went away," Luke complained that same night when Mary sat at her desk adding up expenses and making out checks. "Oh, no. This shade makes everyone look ghastly," she said. "I'll have to get a hump on and make my pile," he consoled. "I don't want my sister being all tired out before she's too old to have a good time." "A good time?" Mary repeated.
"I believe it was in an English novel that I read that any woman without a hump can get any man she sets out for. It is a matter of determination and concentration and a wise choice of vulnerable objects." "Marta, Marta!" gasped Mrs. Galland. In her tone was a volume of lamentation. "Now that I'm twenty-seven mother is ready to take any risk on my behalf, if it is masculine.
Then, looking with the Great Spy-Glass, I saw that there moved across the Land, from the direction of the Plain of Blue Fire, a mighty Hump, seeming of Black Mist, and came with prodigious swiftness.
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