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Garth sat on a box; and their host squatted on the floor between. "By the way," said this youth; "I'm Charley Landrum." Garth introduced himself and Natalie. "Hope you'll stay a couple of days," said Charley anxiously "or longer. There's great duck-shooting on the sloughs; and we might get a goose or a wavy around the lake shore. It would be a pleasant change of meat for the lady."
It is sometimes found necessary to employ moist or oily substances, such as boracic poultices, eucalyptus ointment, or balsam of Peru, to facilitate the separation of sloughs, or to promote the growth of granulations. In patients who are not extremely debilitated the slough may be excised, the raw surface scraped, and then painted with iodine.
I can free myself," replied she, brandishing the stiletto. The rapscallion began to laugh. "Never mind," said he. "I have a means of plunging you into the sloughs of three brazen hussies, as you call them." "Never, while I live." "Head and heels you shall go in with your two feet, two hands, two ivory breasts, and two other things, white as snow your teeth, your hair, and everything.
And obeying their secret instructions, the escort led them round and round through the most miry and forlorn parts of the town, so that, sinking knee-deep at every step into sloughs and quicksands, and plunging about through the mist and sleet of a dreary December's night, they at last reached the precincts of the Spanish half-moon on the Gullet, be-draggled from head to foot and in a most dismal and exhausted condition.
"But since the old bear has lost his cub, his thirst for vengeance incites him to stake all upon one grand attempt to penetrate our fastnesses, and the dryness of the season seems to him to make it possible." "Our pools and sloughs are never quite dry they are bottomless," said Beorn, "and you might stow away the castle of Aescendune in some of them, and 'twould sink out of sight."
There was an abundance of water-fowl in the sloughs and ponds up and down the river, and Bucks, the morning after Stanley's departure, leaving the troopers lounging in camp, started out with a shot-gun to look for ducks.
For my part, I desire to sweep off my old friends with the old year and begin the new with a clean record. It is a measure absolutely necessary. The snake does not put on his new skin over the old one. He sloughs off the first, before he dons the second. He would be a very clumsy serpent, if he did not.
There is no instance of a girl of the tribe having ever married any man who was not a paludier. The horrible aspects of these marshes, these sloughs, the mud of which was systematically raked, the dull gray earth that the Breton flora held in horror, were in keeping with the gloom that filled our souls.
"I never heard of Captain Kidd sailing over into the sloughs of Pennsylvania. Did you?" "That tells the story!" Will whispered. "The fellow is here on some mission of his own. That story of his about being in quest of the boys is all a bluff! I reckon he had heard somewhere that two boys were missing and came here with the fairy tale!"
His voice was strangely listless; in his eyes was the same abstraction which had troubled Appleton during the afternoon. He left the camp and disappeared up the bank of the stream. "Nice place to take a walk!" the engineer observed. "He'll bog down in half a mile or get lost among the sloughs." "Not him!" said Slater.
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