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It was only in the morning that, creeping on their hands and knees through the stubble, they came upon the torn and mangled carcass of a sheep. The two men looked at each other without speaking they knew what this act of rapine meant to themselves. It meant a fresh hue and cry after them it meant that their starving companion had helped to draw the net closer round them.
"Then the lady Mameena must have had a strange taste in men, for this one is an ugly little fellow with hair like the grey ash of stubble and a wrinkled face of the colour of a flayed skin that has lain unstretched in the sun. However, I have been told that witches always love those who look unnatural."
"Seems to me," she said, "seems to me you are dreadfully quiet this afternoon." "I am thinking about my wretched field of stubble," he answered, still frowning. Her parasol swung about until the girl was looking up at his inscrutable profile. "Is it, then, so important that you haven't time to talk to me?" she asked with an air of what might have been timidity.
Its ill effects are, that it produces chaps in the lips, and afflicts many of the natives with sore eyes. Whenever the grass is sufficiently dry the negroes set it on fire; but in Ludamar and other Moorish countries this practice is not allowed, for it is upon the withered stubble that the Moors feed their cattle until the return of the rains.
Mercy upon us! there was a huge snake, or rather a dreadful viper, for it was all yellow and gold, moving towards me, bearing its head about a foot and a half above the ground, the dry stubble crackling beneath its outrageous belly. It might be about five yards off when I first saw it, making straight towards me, child, as if it would devour me.
Is it right to complain ourselves, or should we wonder, at the spectacle of miserable matches in others, if the temple of marriage rest thus on wood, hay and stubble, instead of having gold, silver, and precious stones at its base? "Marrying to increase love," says a writer, "is like gaming to get rich. You are liable, in the hazard, to lose all you carry to the game."
You should have seen us! we set each other like two pointers backing in a stubble, with a covey between them, while the femme Dixon kept fussing with an introduction 'Sir Hicks, Sir James, Sir James, Sir Hicks! At last the light broke in, and I explained, and we laughed about it for a whole hour.
Hal was glad to make an exchange with father, and get a few acres near home, while he would still have nice woodland left. Acres of land then did not seem to be worth so much to us, and it was a poor farmer in our section, who had not forty or more acres, for our town was not all level plains, and every land-owner must perforce have more or less of hill and stubble.
"It means, Flopper, in this particular instance," he said gravely, "that there shouldn't be any interrogation point after the heading." Again the Flopper blinked helplessly and his fingers picked uncertainly at the stubble on his chin. The other two gazed disconsolately and Helena a little pityingly as well at Doc Madison. Doc Madison flung out his arms suddenly.
In these four examples good composition has been effected in proportion as such balance is indicated; in the first by dog and palm, in the second by flower-pot, in the third by the light on the stubble and cloud in left hand corner, and in the last by the rocks and open sea.
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