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At length the hours passed, and the coach drew up. It was an odd-looking vehicle, drawn by four horses. The body was simply hung on by straps, innocent of springs. There were no windows to the carriage, but only leather aprons in their place. This looked rather like rough travelling. Away we went at last, at a good pace, over a tolerably good road.
One, an old man, yelled triumphantly: "Allah be praised! a wisdom a wisdom! The torture; the horse-bucket and the hot ashes! The jamadar will have the truth out of the Afghan. Allah be praised! it is a wisdom!" At the gate straps were loosed and Barlow was jerked to the marble steps as if he had been a blanket stripped from the horse's back.
"Why, Snap is so strong that he'll break that string in no time," said Bert. "Besides " "Flossie's gone in for our booty straps, I tell you!" said Freddie. "Then our harness will be strong enough. I'm only using string for part of it. I wish she'd hurry up and come out!" and Freddie glanced toward the house. But there was no sign of his little sister Flossie.
"He has a good name for the captain of a fighting ship," replied the petty officer, respectfully touching his cap to the shoulder straps of the inquirer. "The commander is Captain Battleton." "Captain Battleton," repeated Christy, to assure himself that he had correctly understood the name. "Captain Battleton," added the quartermaster. "I hope you are feeling better to-day, sir."
They got the long, thin strips of hard wood, steamed the ends and curled them like sled runners, sand-papered and polished them, and put on the straps of leather to hold the toe. They learned how to go through the drifts with these, sliding the shoe along through the loose snow, instead of lifting the foot, as with the Canadian snowshoe.
The basket was thus supported in its place and carried by means of the pressure of these straps upon the shoulders. "Uncle George," said Rollo, "I should like to have such a basket as that and such a pair of straps to carry it by." "What would you do with it," asked Mr. George, "if you had it?" "Why, it would be very convenient," said Rollo, "in America, when I went a-raspberrying.
"There!" he said mockingly, straightening out the hair and holding it up in the light. "That's calculated to set one's thoughts running all over the place, isn't it? That piece of hair was caught in the buckle of one of the straps with which Miss Mackwayte was bound to the bed. Miss Mackwayte, I would point out, has brown hair. Whose hair do you think that is?"
Dropping to his knees, he fell to work with feverish haste unbuckling straps and bands. With the harness loose, he dragged it off and tossed it to one side. Then, still moving feverishly, he led the mate to the mare off the trail, turned to the wagon with bracing shoulder, backed it clear of the prostrate animal, and swung it out of the way of future passing vehicles. It was sweltering work.
His kind ugly face looked none too pleasant as he said it, I remember noticing that. Then he went to his mules to 'buckle' up a strap somewhere. I was surprised to hear him cursing something under his breath. It was not his manner, I thought, to curse straps or mules. We said good-bye a very cordial one and then drove down towards the main road. It winds through a vlei towards the town.
If she can make them understand who she is, there is no doubt they will restore her to her parents." There was but little fighting that day, and when the regiment fell out, fortunately halting again in a wood, Julian waited until the fires were lighted, and then unloosened the straps and shifted the child round in front of him. She opened her eyes as he did so.
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