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But when Flyaway first looked into Ruth's smiling face, with its black eyes and sharp nose, she could not remember that she had ever seen it before. Abner, too, was strange to her. "Come here," said he, "and I can tell in a minute if you are a good little girl." Flyaway cast down her soft eyes, and sidled along to Abner.
They took the whipping-chains and rattled them in their trunks as they sidled up to Moti Guj, meaning to hustle him between them. Moti Guj had never, in all his life of thirty-nine years, been whipped, and he did not intend to open new experiences. So he waited, weaving his head from right to left, and measuring the precise spot in Kala Nag's fat side where a blunt tusk would sink deepest.
He stalked her, he stared at her, he craved her, he sidled slinking and propitiatory and yet relentlessly toward her, until at last she awoke from the suffocating nightmare nearness of his approach, and lay awake in fear and horror listening to the unaccustomed sounds of the hotel. She came very near that night to resolving that she would return to her home next morning.
The belligerent turkey-gobblers sidled about ruffling their feathers. The blackbirds and swallows sang and twittered their happiness to find old nests in the branches and under the eaves. Over all boomed the dull roar of the Colorado in flood. It was the morning of Mescal's wedding-day.
Welden after looking at her for a few seconds was prompted by some sublimely simple intuition, and gently sidled Mrs. Bester and her youngest into the little kitchen, where the copper was. "Her helpin' him like she did, makes it come near," she whispered. "Dessay it seems as if he was a'most like a relation." Old Doby sat and looked at his goddess.
He shook hands with her, and noticed at once that she had obeyed her master's orders and made some effort to clean herself. Her hands were damp and cold. "I'm glad to see you looking well," said Meldon, "Is the tea ready?" "It is," said Sabina. Meldon sat down and poured out two cups. "Come along," he said, "and keep me company." Sabina sidled towards the table.
She gathered up her gown and sidled down affectedly over the remaining steps. "That's it," said Jane, joining her in the hall below. Mrs. Bates opened the front door herself. "You can take the choo-choo cars at Sixteenth, you know, and get off at Van Buren. Oh, dear; excuse my baby-talk; our little Reginald two months old, you know. I'll have Lottie home for that lunch of ours."
Hugh put out his whole strength in the endeavor to raise himself somewhat out of the ice-cold water. But the upturned boat sidled away from him like a skittish horse, and after grappling with it he only slipped back again exhausted, and had to clutch it as best he could. As he clung to the gunwale he heard a faint coughing and gasping close to his ear. Some one was drowning.
Watch came, with his little scut of a tail cocked as sharp as duty, and I set him at the narrow mouth of the great snow antre. All the sheep sidled away, and got closer, that the other sheep might be bitten first, as the foolish things imagine; whereas no good sheep-dog even so much as lips a sheep to turn it.
She drew back still farther and made a rapid gesture of negation with her head, her hand, and even her whole lithe figure. Then she said, with a decided American intonation: "No, sir." "Why not?" said Jarman mechanically. The girl sidled up against the cabin, keeping her eyes fixed on Jarman with a certain youthful shrewdness. "Oh, you know!" she said. "I really do not. Tell me why."
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