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But they could take of their play time till they had gained a day or more to give. One marked after another and last of all it was the turn of Afa Bibo. Very near to him stood the kind doctor who had made him free from the pain and able to see the way as he came to the white pole. So he smiled one of his rare smiles as he passed him.
"Hear that?" said the plump lady. "Hear what?" "Listen." Presently the silence was broken by a distant howl. "Oooooo-ver!" "Eh?" she said. He nodded. "That's the ferry. And there isn't a ferryman." "Could I?" "Can you punt?" "Never tried." "Well pull the pole out before you reach the end of the punt, that's all. Try." Mr. Polly went out again into the sunshine.
And while saying this, which seemed to indicate that widowhood would be her state as far as he was concerned, he pressed her hand with extreme sweetness, and his bird's-eyes twinkled obligingly. It is to be feared that Mr. Pole had passed the age of improvement, save in his peculiar art. After a time Nature stops, and says to us 'thou art now what thou wilt be.
Farm labourers out in the country, seated on the pole of their bullock-cart, or men perched on the top of loads of wood in great cities, will enjoy both the dignity and the shade of their outspread umbrella in the hot season.
All was done fairly; but, my lord's father showed, they say, such ferocious joy at seeing the Pole mortally wounded, that his relation, M. de Fermont, was obliged to drag him away; the count wishing to see, as he said, his enemy expire under his eyes." "What a man! what a man!"
Where's the axe?" He took the axe, and his pole, and balanced his way across to the rock, gliding like a shadow, up and down as the piled stems led. "He's pluck enough," said one. "He's mad to try it," murmured some of the others sullenly. The shadow had reached the rock. He laid the pole down at his feet, gave one glance upstream, and stood ready.
Those who had crossed the line entered into the fun of the occasion with much spirit and enthusiasm. On the hottest day of the trip, just as we left Suez, when the mercury was sputtering from the heat, we heard that the north pole had been discovered. It cooled us off considerably for a while.
John's to Pilatka, and the next morning left for the Oclawaha, which runs into the St. John's about twenty-five miles above, on the other side of the river. We found the Corny family at the station, all right, and Corny immediately informed me that she had a fishing-line, but didn't bring a pole, because her father said he could cut her one, if it was needed.
I killed the cur, for, following its master, it would have peace, and peace is more than life. Then, with the pole of the waterpail, I threw the dead dog across the entrance upon the paving stones, for these vermin of plainsmen will not pass where a dead dog lies, as my father knows well.
Might not this happen? Now came the holy Christmas festival. The peasants raised a pole close by the old wall, and bound an unthrashed bundle of oats on it, that the birds of the air might also enjoy the Christmas, and have plenty to eat at that time which was held in commemoration of the redemption brought to mankind.
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