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"If they were to set-to to shout as soon as we had landed, our chance of getting back again would be at an end." They tore off two strips from the cloths, rolled them up, and put them in the prisoners' mouths, putting some lashings across so that they could not get them out; then they put the men so far apart in the boat that they could not touch each other, and lashed them in these positions.
"I remember my gran'-father used to tell a tale of how they served a highwayman that way once." "That would be best, I think," said the woman pondering. "He'd be more comfortable in a chair, though I'm sure he don't deserve it." They raised the exhausted cook, and placing him in a stout oak chair, lashed him to it until he could scarcely breathe.
The rams of the flock were well nurtured and thick of fleece, great and goodly, with wool dark as the violet. Quietly I lashed them together with twisted withies, whereon the Cyclops slept, that lawless monster. Three together I took: now the middle one of the three would bear each a man, but the other twain went on either side, saving my fellows. Thus every three sheep bare their man.
From the beginning of the covered way they had been guided by the tones of penetrant contempt, with which she lashed the circle of house servants who had gathered to her assistance. "You des lemme alont now," was the advice she royally offered. "Ef you gwine ax me w'at you'd better do, I des tell you right now, you'd better lemme alont.
Frantically the driver lashed and lashed, and cracked his whip, the reports resounding like a sharp fire of musketry amid the hills. It was of no avail, and had not two of the men rushed up with two huge masses of rock, which they placed behind the wheels, the waggon would have gone backwards, and dragged the animals after it to the bottom of the hill.
He lashed the horse, and the animal went galloping up the road that wound over the hill. Suddenly, at a turn of the road, two fiery eyes burst into view, and through the night came the wild shriek of an automobile horn. With an oath, the man sought to rein to one side of the narrow road. The fiery eyes were right upon them. There was a crash. The wagon was struck and smashed.
The hunter came trotting back to the party, disgusted with buffalo running, and he was received with overwhelming congratulations. "Too good a chance to lose," said Shaw, pointing to another band of bulls on the left. We lashed our horses and galloped upon them. Shaw killed one with each barrel of his gun. I separated another from the herd and shot him.
Slade was lying as the Apaches had left him, beside the charcoal brazier, his left arm still lashed behind to his right foot. He had died from his wounds. As they passed by, Lennon shielded Elsie from the unpleasant sight. But Carmena looked full at the big twisted body of the man who had ruined and murdered her father. "He deserved it all and more far more," she murmured.
Will ye take a drop o' rye? I'm boss here. That's only my chore-boy you're slobberin' over, Mister Devil. Eh, but it's hunky down to Coney Island, ain't it?" These remarks came in a jerky sort of torrent from the second man, one of whose peculiarities was that his arms above the elbow were lashed with leather thongs to his body.
As this last part of the work was being done, and the spring being lashed round the palm-tree, one of the seamen, named Martin, grasped Roger by the arm. "Do you see that, Master Trevose?" said he, pointing. "What do you mean, Martin?" answered Roger.
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