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The dreadful cannon rushes about, advances, recedes, strikes to right and to left, flies here and there, baffles their attempts at capture, sweeps away obstacles, crushing men like flies. The extreme danger of the situation comes from the unsteadiness of the deck. How is one to cope with the caprices of an inclined plane?
"You'd better not go round there, Tom," said Dick as they approached a patch of rushes. "It's very soft." "I don't care if I go in; do you?" was the reply. "No, I don't mind," said Dick sadly. "I don't seem to mind anything now." "Come along then," cried Tom; "and as we get round let's both look back and then try to keep out of sight pretend, you know."
One, and another, and yet another of the "young entry" soon gave tongue; then, after a minute's deliberation, an old, experienced hound raised his head from the rushes, uttered a single deep, clear note, climbed the garden hedge, and galloped across the meadow towards the river. The rest of the hounds speedily found the line of the "drag," but all came to a check at the water's edge.
Miss Gale riddles the tedious affectations of the Deacon household almost without a word of comment; none the less she exhibits them under a withering light. The daughter, she says, "was as primitive as pollen" and biology rushes in to explain Di's blind philanderings.
Krishna then, enraged, took up a handful of rushes to destroy them, and the rushes became a club of iron and with this he slew many of the murderous Yadavas; whilst others, fighting fiercely, put an end to one another. In a short time, there was not a single Yadava left alive, except the mighty Krishna and Daruka, his charioteer.
As we sailed along we caught glimpses to port of the warm, red walls of a stately building that we knew to be Westover. We found Herring Creek a good, lazy houseboating waterway; a brown ribbon of marsh stream wandering aimlessly among the rushes. Turn after turn, and the marshes still kept us company the quiet, lone marshes that had come to have such a charm for us.
Whereupon the Eremite himself, fetching a load of fresh rushes, arranged them in one of the cells, and invited the fair Iduna to repose.
More to the west, the Cano Pirara, a tributary stream of the Mahu, issues from a lake covered with rushes. The lake Amucu is several leagues broad, and contains two small islands, which Santos heard called Islas Ipomucena. The portage between the Rupunuwini and the Mahu is farther north, where the mountain of Ucucuamo* rises, the natives still call the mountain of gold.
While Timid Hare was peeping out of the corners of her eyes at this beautiful sight. Sweet Grass was in her turn examining the little captive. "You are changed," she said slowly. "What has The Stone been doing? Ugh! I see. She has tried to make a Dahcota out of you. Well, it may be well, and yet, I think I liked you better as you were before." "Lay the rushes here, beside me," she continued.
So saying he directed the boat toward the rushes nearest to the bank and pushed the boat through them. "Oh, here you are, Jethro!" Chebron said, seeing the Rebu and the men he had accompanied standing on the bank. "What has happened, Chebron have you killed one of them? We heard a sort of roar and a great splashing." "We have not killed him, but there are two spear-heads sticking into him."
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