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While I slept a spark from the fire fell on the hair and burned it through. I fell to earth with such force that I sank into the ground up to my chest. I couldn't budge, so I was forced to go home and get a spade and dig myself out. On the way home I crossed a field where the reapers were cutting corn. The heat was so great that they had to stop work.
He lost no time in sailing, and scarcely had he arrived in Sydney ere he set out on horseback to cross the Blue Mountains. On the 11th of February, 1851, he spent the night at a little inn a few miles from the object of his journey, and shortly after dawn he sallied forth on his ride through the forest, carrying with him a spade and a trowel and a little tin dish.
"'You have killed my Esme, I exclaimed bitterly. "'I'm so awfully sorry, said the young man; I keep dogs myself, so I know what you must feel about it. I'll do anything I can in reparation. "'Please bury him at once, I said; 'that much I think I may ask of you. "'Bring the spade, William, he called to the chauffeur.
It is too much to say, that we will use the face of the country as the painter does his canvas; Take thy plastic spade, It is thy pencil; take thy seeds, thy plants, They are thy colours. The analogy can scarcely hold farther than in a parterre; and even there very imperfectly.
"Where is she now?" asked Mary, much interested. "Heaven," he answered, and drove his spade deep into the soil, "'cording to what parson says." "What happened to the roses?" Mary asked again, more interested than ever. "They was left to themselves." Mary was becoming quite excited. "Did they quite die? Do roses quite die when they are left to themselves?" she ventured.
A gardener's house, made of blocks, ornaments one corner, and near it are his tools, watering-pot, hoe, rake, spade, etc., all made in cardboard modeling. We now pass up-stairs.
As a spade could not be employed a large shell left by the natives was used for scooping up the dirt, which made the operation both slow and tiresome. Our horses were dreadfully fagged and very thirsty after the severe toil they had endured in dragging the drays through so heavy a scrub, but with all our exertions we could only obtain from the spring about two buckets of water apiece for them.
The Russian and Siberian Cossack lunged their fallen ones in heavily and unfeelingly. The Bengalese and Sikhs thrust their own out of sight as they were planting for an uncertain harvest. Each soldier from France who lost his life on that battlefield fell on his own grave and there his countrymen covered him over, an unmarked spot in a foreign land. Thaine straightened a minute above his spade.
Their senses had become marvellously acute; they could hear and judge the slightest gesture of a man a dozen paces away could hear the very beating of his heart. Intonation had long replaced expression with them, and touches gesture, and their work with hoe and spade and fork was as free and confident as garden work can be.
Michael, though he had no great reverence for Mr. Wood's ministrations, had constituted himself sexton, an office which had devolved on him in consequence of his skill with the spade.
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