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In those leaves yonder is a battle a bloody battle, and things are blistered into his boyish heart in that battle that never heal over; that tuft of sod is a girl's face a little girl's face that he loved as a boy; there is his first lawsuit that ragged pile of leaves by the twig at the log's end; and the twig is his first ten thousand dollars.
So, choking and blinded with perspiration, Geoffrey smote on mechanically, until the man from Mattawa said, "She's about busted." Just then there was a clamor from the watchers on the piers. Men shouted, "Come back." "Whole jam's starting!" "King log's yielding now!" "Jump for your lives before the wreckage breaks away with you!"
Such then was the end of youthful ambition: for food a mouthful of ashes instead of the very marrow of joy; for home not the free ocean, but a stagnant pool ringed with weeping willows, a log's fit floating-place.
It was peeping out at him from the little hollow upon the log's uneven surface where he had dropped it, a glint of gold from under the piece of bark which he had put over it and which had not been thrust aside by the winter winds. "I got it for you at the same time, Ygerne," he told her. "It was to be my first little present to you. . . ."
They surprised Log's Town, which the Virginians had built upon the Ohio; made themselves masters of the Block-house and Truck-house, where they found skins and other commodities to the amount of twenty thousand pounds, and destroyed all the British traders, except two who found means to escape.
It might go this way: 'She touched the Christmas tapers with the Yule log's heart of flame. No, it ought to start, "Lighting the candles of Christmas joy, With a spark from the Yule log's fire." But there was no time for making poetry, with so many voices calling "Merry Christmas," and so many outstretched hands grasping hers.
You will find in it a letter which I wrote about three years ago; and if I have ever deserved well of you and yours, I charge you and I implore you to do your very best as regards what I have asked of you in that letter." "The log's burn red; she lifts her head For sledge-bells tinkle and tinkle, O lightly swung.
Then Dad was sorry he hadn't built the trap stronger and used heavier logs. He tried to scare the bears by yelling, but the more he yelled, the harder they dug to get at him, and it wasn't long before he heard a mountain lion answering his shout and coming nearer every minute. The lion came down off the mountain, jumped on top of the trap and began tearing at the log's up there.
Through the winter it must have been the den of a black bear. As soon as he had settled down, with his face some two feet from the sunlit air of the outer world. Jack observed that the industrious spider had begun again to throw his silvery veil over the great hole in the log's end. He watched the process.
It was past five when we got down to the tents and descended from our howdahs, glad to stretch our stiffened limbs in a brisk walk. The dead tigers were hauled into the middle of the camp, and the servants ran together to see the result of the sahib log's day out. We retired to dress and refresh ourselves for dinner.
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