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He never paid a bill; it was believed it never occurred to him to pay one; but he folded each account to exactly the same breadth, using the cover of an old glove-box as a gauge, wrote very neatly on the outside the date, the name of the creditor, and the amount of the debt, and with an indiarubber band enrolled it in a company of its fellows.
The substance composing their bodies appeared to be not unlike that of a terrestrial jelly-fish, but much denser. It seemed from their motions to have the tenacity of soft indiarubber save at the headed ends, where it was much harder. The necks were protected for about fifty feet by huge scales of a dull, greenish hue.
"Git out o' dat you scoundril!" exclaimed Moses, but the order was needless, for the monkey bounced out of it like indiarubber and sought to hide its confusion in the thatch, while Moses helped himself to some more of the rice, which, he said; was none the worse for being monkeyfied!
"Why, what " Betty turned pink. "I'm going to nurse on the East Coast. My old school has been turned into a hospital. And the other day Miss Dacre she was the principal, you know, and she is nursing there now wrote to mother and said they would take me." "But," said the Indiarubber Man, "d'you think you could stick it hacking off fellows' legs, and that sort of thing? Blessed if I could do it."
It was wrecked entirely, but Bleriot was fortunate enough to escape with nothing worse than burns about the face and hands, and a general shock. The cause of the accident was that an indiarubber tube, fixed temporarily to carry petrol from the tank to the carburettor, had been eaten through and had permitted petrol to leak out, and to ignite, on the hot exhaust pipes of the motor.
I always have two dogs in the house, one here and one in my bedroom, and there are five or six outside." Mr. Wallace and the Malay Archipelago Animals Birds General characteristics of plants European flora in mountains Darwin's explanation Fruits History of cinchona introduction Mr. Ledger's story Indiarubber. Wallace, the naturalist, in "the study of man and nature" in the Malay Archipelago.
Being possessed of a good share of brute courage, and feeling confident in his great physical strength, Swinton did not await the attack, but ran to meet his foe, swung his ponderous weapon on high, and brought it down with tremendous force on the seal's head, but the hood received it and caused it to rebound as if from indiarubber with such violence that it swung the man to one side.
South lay the moor, inscrutable and mysterious, dotted with the monuments of a people forgotten before walls ringed the seven hills of Rome. The outlines of tors, ever softening in the distance, led the eye from rugged crest to misty beacon till, forty miles away, they dissolved into the same grey haze. The Indiarubber Man pointed a lean, prophetic forefinger to the rolling south.
The Indiarubber Man closed his eyes. "You told me to ring if I wasn't comfortable, and I wasn't a bit. I hate the smell of marigolds too. No please don't move; I'm very comfortable now." Betty looked wildly in the direction of the house for help. "I heard the bell," she said in a queer, breathless little voice, "and I just came out to look . . . and then I ran. I ought to have called someone.
And, just as the canoe drew near to the place at the foot of the fall where they meant to land and make the portage, a little cabri, or prong-horned antelope, leaped out of the woods, intending, doubtless, to drink, caught sight of the intruders, gave one short glance of unutterable amazement, and then rebounded into the bush like an electrified indiarubber ball.
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