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It dawned upon us that this was only another trick of the zaptiehs to get a rest. We pushed on the next 500 feet of the ascent without much trouble or controversy, the silence broken only by the muleteer, who took the raki bottle off the donkey’s pack, and asked if he could take a drink. As we had only a limited supply, to be used to dilute the snow-water, we were obliged to refuse him.
"'Nay, Brother, said Howkawanda, 'but I also have been counted dead, and it is in my heart that this one shall serve us better living than dead. He nursed the great white bird in his bosom and fed it with the last of their food and a little snow-water melted in his palm.
He wished for a well every time that he panted in from a trip to the creek, and meant to have one as soon as he could afford it. While the snow-water was melting Wallie considered the manner in which he should prepare the prairie-dogs.
It was the Asper river, at this season of the year swollen high and swift with snow-water a rare feat indeed if a man could swim his horse across such a stream. There were only two places in which it could be forded.
When at length the flames gained the ascendancy, the officers and soldiers around them prepared their wretched repast; it consisted of lean and bloody pieces of flesh torn from the horses that were knocked up, and at most a few spoonfuls of rye-flour mixed with snow-water.
As the floods went down, and the snow-water disappeared, the fishing began, first with the big, silly suckers, then with wiser and more valued fish.
Then the roof of the Hall let in the melted snow-water this winter; and, on examination, it turned out that a new roof was absolutely required. The men who had come about the advances made to Osborne by the London money-lender, had spoken disparagingly of the timber on the estate 'Very fine trees sound, perhaps, too, fifty years ago, but gone to rot now; had wanted lopping and clearing.
If he that has a right to be master and ruler here is forced to squinch his thirst, when a-dry, with snow-Water, it ill becomes them that have lived by his bounty to be making merry, as if there was nothing in the world but sunshine and summer. When he had spoken, Leather-Stocking again dropped his head on his knees, and concealed his hard and wrinkled features with his hands.
The wattle-trees were out in golden bloom, and the snow-water from the mountains set the river running white with foam, fighting its way over bars of granite into big pools where the platypus dived, and the wild ducks busy with the cares of nesting just settled occasionally to snatch a hasty meal and then hurried off, with a whistle of strong wings, back to their little ones.
The smells, too, were the sweet, stinging ones of spring, warm and pleasant the odor of the clean, fresh earth cutting its way through that thick, strong fragrance of pine, the smell of logs rotting in the sun, and of fresh new grass and flowers along a brook of snow-water. "I smell smoke," said Dale, suddenly, as he reined in, and turned for corroboration from his companion.
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