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And then by the last milestone, which was a good mile from May Lane, they found their father and Margery and Charlie waiting for them. All their tiredness vanished then in a trice, and the last mile was covered and home reached almost before they had begun to tell all they had to say.
There was plenty to eat at taverns and camps, and good hunting in the woods; but who could tell what hungry milestone might stand at the end of this day's journey? Grandma Padgett herself was beginning to feel anxious on this subject.
Their course to civilization lay not only through the woods and down the rivers and over the mountains, but it ran also through the great realm of books, and every log schoolhouse was a station or a junction on it; or rather, as they had things in these days, a milestone or a finger-post. The great glory and strength of the Ohio people, as I have hinted before, came from their varied origin.
With unexpected rapidity the whole blazed up, and soon gave notice to the enemy of what had occurred. They beat a rapid retreat, and, having recrossed the Salghir, ran for their lives, pursued by the Cossacks, who soon opened on them a hot fire. On they ran, fortunately taking the right road, the Cossacks increasing in numbers. Milestone at length gave signs of being exhausted.
Waddling rather than running, and breathing in gasps; but still Crake. He toiled past the crowd at the milestone. "By Jove, he looks bad," said someone. And, indeed, he looked very bad. But he was ahead of Kennedy. That was the great thing. He had passed the stone by thirty yards, when the cheering broke out again. Kennedy this time, in great straits, but in better shape than Crake.
And when they have a lot of children, then they become steady as milestones." "Children!" said Madalina, getting up and walking about the room. "They do have them, you know," said Johnny. "Do you mean to say, sir, that I should be a milestone?" "A finger-post," said Johnny, "to show a fellow the way he ought to go." She walked twice across the room without speaking.
He stoked that rusty firebox until by the time he had cooked and eaten breakfast it was glowing red. When he sat with his feet cocked up on the stove front and gave himself up to the sober business of thought, it seemed to him that he was passing a portentous milestone.
Broken carts, abandoned vehicles of various patterns, lined the way; there were many swollen carcasses underfoot, and not infrequently pedestrians crossed mud-holes by stepping from one to another, holding their breaths and battling through swarms of flies. Much costly impedimenta strewed the roadside each article a milestone of despair, a monument to failure.
The youth excited my curiosity the more, because, as I have already informed ye, he was as silent as a milestone, and not half so satisfactory; for beyond the little word "Yes," which I once got out of him, not another syllable would he breathe but he kept his head half turned away from me.
But what we chiefly refer to now is the profound pensiveness of the following strain, as if written with a presentiment of what was not then very far off: "Another Finis written; another milestone on this journey from birth to the next world. Sure it is a subject for solemn cogitation. Shall we continue this story-telling business, and be voluble to the end of our age?"
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