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I have but one pony for the two, and they were to ride "turn about"; but Chuar'ruumpeak, the chief, rides, and Shuts, the one-eyed, barelegged, merry-faced pigmy, walks, and points the way with a slender cane; then leaps and bounds by the shortest way, and sits down on a rock and waits demurely until we come, always meeting us with a jest, his face a rich mine of sunny smiles.
"It's about the death of old Stefanopoulos the man they sing that song about, you know." In fact, I had got hold of the poem which One-eyed Alexander composed. Its length was about three hundred lines, exclusive of the refrain which the islanders had chanted, and which was inserted six times, occurring at the end of each fifty lines.
An excellent surgeon was lost in you." O'Hara left the room, and presently the old caretaker, one-eyed, gnomelike, shambling like a bear, sidled in and proceeded to set things to rights. He looked, Ste. Marie said to himself, like something in an old German drawing, or in those imitations of old drawings that one sometimes sees nowadays in Fliegende Blätter.
Among the blind the one-eyed are kings, and the Falling Wall basin lies amid inhospitable deserts, barren hills and landscapes slashed to rags and ribbons by mountain storms regions that have failed to tempt even a white man's cupidity.
The one-eyed cuirassier said judicially: "That cannot be refused." The other veteran remarked: "It's awkward all the same." "Owing to the state of the people's minds in this part of the country there was no one I could trust with the object of your presence here," explained General D'Hubert urbanely. They saluted, looked round, and remarked both together: "Poor ground." "It's unfit."
Now, Darius was minded to make conquest of the Scythians concerning which people, and the lands beyond those which they inhabit, there are many marvels told, as of a bald-headed folk called Argippæi; and the Arimaspians or one-eyed people; and the Hyperborean land where the air is full of feathers. Of these lands are legends only; nothing is known.
As he completed the signal the door was opened guardedly. A man and woman surveyed him in hostile silence as he pushed past them, kicked the door shut, and deposited the blinking child on the kitchen table. Humpy, the one-eyed, jumped to the windows and jammed the green shades close into the frames.
He glanced back once or twice, assuring himself that it was his plain duty to keep her in sight in order to see that nothing happened to her. He found himself wishing that she would drop the letters overboard again that the one-eyed man would reappear that something would occur, however slight, to call him to her side once more.
He is described as a tall man, with red hair and a white complexion, blind of one eye, and with a mole on his hand. The Spanish historians call him Tarik el Tuerto, meaning either "one-eyed" or "squint-eyed." Such was the man whom Musa sent to begin the conquest of Spain. The army of invasion consisted of seven thousand men,—a handful to conquer a kingdom.
"Has he tried to git anybody yet?" "No, but he's liable to. What would happen if he did? Suppose, for instance, he went after you or me?" The one-eyed man snorted derisively. "It ain't wuth considerin'!" "Why not?" insisted Gale, guardedly. "Maybe I've got a record you don't know." "If you have, don't tell me nothin' about it," hastily observed Lee.
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