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He had settled that overnight, that was why he had this cloak in his rucksack, but he had settled none of the details. Now he must find some place where he could lie down. Here, perhaps, in this strange forgotten wilderness of rhododendra. He turned off from the track and wandered among the bushes. One might lie down anywhere here. But not yet; it was as yet barely twilight.
And it is certain that to be off upon a journey with a rucksack strapped upon you at an hour when the butcher boy takes down his shutters is a high pleasure. Off you go through the village with swinging arms. Off you go across the country. A farmer is up before you and you hear his reaper across the field, and the neighing of his horses at the turn.
This poor little creature having dodged two boulders by a hairbreadth, got out by the westward corner and fled athwart the hill, with flapping rucksack and twinkling knicker-bockered legs, leaving a trail of Cretaceous echinoderms behind him; while young Caddies, satisfied with the destruction he had achieved, came striding out to fulfil his purpose in the world.
Then I saw another figure striding along, a youth with knee-breeches and Alpine hat and braces over his shirt, walking manfully, his coat slung in his rucksack behind. I laughed, and waited. He came my way. 'Are you going over the Gothard? I said. 'Yes, he replied. 'Are you also? 'Yes' I said. 'We will go together. So we set off, climbing a track up the heathy rocks.
When not in use, they can be kept rolled up in a bag and should be carried in the Rucksack rather than hanging on outside. Frozen skins are very difficult to attach. A scraper should invariably be carried when Ski-ing, even on the Nursery slopes.
Everything was, as they say in England, "full up." It was coming on to rain and the night fell chill and black. Would I have to use my rucksack for a pillow and sleep in the fields? At length I found a man it was at quaint Godalming, I think, where the famous Charterhouse School is who could not give me a room, but offered me a bed and breakfast at half a crown.
"What a burden to carry on a donkey's back!" I laughed. "You are a regular Beau Brummel." "Why not?" pleaded the boy. "I like pretty things, and this is very convenient. It is no trouble for Souris. When the bag is in the rücksack, no one would suspect that it is valuable. I have carried all this luggage so, ever since Lucerne, and never had any bother before."
He and Von Glahn laughed; and the latter said, still frankly amused: "Soyez tranquille, Messieurs; Count von Plessis permits my friends in my company to shoot the Queen’s alm." With a lithe movement, wholly graceful, he slipped the rücksack from his shoulders, let it fall among the alpenrosen beside his sporting rifle.
Far down a light or two glimmered in the chalets of La Brenva. Garratt Skinner emptied the Rücksack on his knees. "Let us see what food we have," he said. "We made a mistake in not bringing more. But Pierre was so certain that we should reach Chamonix to-night." "We shall die to-night," said Pierre. "Nonsense," said Garratt Skinner. "We are not the first party which has been caught by the night."
The man in brown dropped the rücksack, and ran as I have never seen man run before ran as if he wore seven-leagued boots.
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