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In returning to the ship, the bearers amused themselves by racing with each other, a proceeding far from agreeable to us who were carried, particularly when we came to the flight of steps, which they descended at full speed, shaking the chairs to such a degree that we had some trouble in keeping our seats. On arriving at the bottom we were most hospitably received by one of the nutmeg planters.
Old Jimmie withdrew into a corner, turned to the racing part of the Evening Telegram, which, with the corresponding section of the Morning Telegraph, was his sole reading, and left Maggie to the society of Miss Grierson.
After we had been at Bowman Lake a day or two, while at breakfast one morning, we saw two of the guides racing their horses in a mad rush toward the camp. Just outside, one of the ponies struck a log, turned a somersault, and threw his rider, who, nothing daunted, came hurrying up on foot. They had seen a bull moose not far away. Instantly all was confusion. The horses were not saddled.
Other rays passed by so quickly I couldn't tell if they deserved that name "eagle ray" coined by the ancient Greeks, or those designations of "rat ray," "bat ray," and "toad ray" that modern fishermen have inflicted on them. Dogfish known as topes, twelve feet long and especially feared by divers, were racing with each other.
Over sand and stones, past tall, prickly cactus-plants, in hot pursuit all flew at racing speed. It was a long chase; for the old grey boar was speedy, cunning, and a master of wiles.
Now, Garrick, I give you my word of honor that I did not know until to-day that the property in that neighborhood was owned by our estate. I have been in that joint on Forty-eighth Street I'll admit that. But, you know, I'm no gambler. I've gone simply to see the life, and well, it has no attraction for me. Racing cars and motorboats don't go with poker chips and the red and black not with me.
Fragments of wreck still came racing by, borne swiftly by the waters and adding greatly to the horrors of the dread story they told. "There must have been immense loss among the shipping," said McKay. "It is a mercy and a marvel how we escaped." "The poor things! To be lost cast away on this cruel, inhospitable land. How very, very sad!" "It is safer, you see, to leave this dangerous anchorage.
"I must give up my regiment," he went on drearily, "my comrades, my racing stable in France all I care for and that makes life pleasant to me. For what?
The Indians were not long in seeing that the canoe was outstripping them, and in each of the boats one of the redskins laid aside his paddle, and began to fire. The balls struck the water near the canoe, but no one was hit. "Let them fire," Jonathan said. "It ain't every man as can shoot straight from a canoe going at racing pace. The more they fires the better.
"But they can't do that in this case, because I didn't foul him." Stella became indignant at the very thought. "Sure you didn't, but that won't keep those wolves from claiming some sort of a foul." "You're not going to stand for it, are you?" "Not in a blue moon. I've got the boys posted. Here comes Norris and his jockey back." The old racing sharp walked up to Bud, leading Magpie.
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