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At eight o'clock, eight bells are struck, the log is hove, the watch set, the wheel relieved, the galley shut up, and the other watch goes below. The morning commences with the watch on deck's "turning-to" at day-break and washing down, scrubbing, and swabbing the decks. At eight, the day's work begins, and lasts until sun-down, with the exception of an hour for dinner.
"I ate mine in the kitchen before sun-down." "Think it'll be a big snow, George?" asked the ranchman. George had turned to reenter the cook room. He moved slowly around and, looking at his face, it seemed to me that he was turning over the wisdom and knowledge of centuries in his head. "It might," was his delayed reply. At the door of the kitchen he stopped and looked back at us.
"A fresh flask of wine, turning out to be not up to the mark, brought the current of conversation against itself; not much to the dissatisfaction of Lottchen, who had already resolved to be in the churchyard of St. Stephen's at sun-down the following day, in the hope that he too might be favoured with a vision of Lilith. "This resolution he carried out.
Though Providence has lent to those who inhabit the woods eyes that would be needless to men in the settlements, where there are inventions to assist the sight, yet no human organs can see all the dangers which at this moment circumvent us. These varlets pretend to be bent chiefly on their sun-down meal, but the moment it is dark they will be on our trail, as true as hounds on the scent.
Pyncheon, that Micah would tell you to be, if he could speak. By sun-down I'll have somebody you can talk to an' who'll cheer you up better than I can. To-morrow to-morrow we'll bury the poor man!" When he said this it set me to cryin'. Then it was so still that I looked up an' found myself alone.
The difference of a day in the journey from London to York was a small matter, and Thoresby was even accustomed to leave the coach and go in search of fossil shells in the fields on either side the road while making the journey between the two places. The long coach "put up" at sun-down, and "slept on the road."
"Yes, the little Nabathaean is come," replied her nurse with some hesitation, "and he indeed but for God's sake, child, form no vain hopes! Hiram came to me soon after sun-down. . ." "Betta!" screamed the girl, clinging to her nurse's arm. "What has he heard, what news does he bring?" "Nothing, nothing! How you rush at conclusions! What he found out is next to nothing.
As soon as lessons were over, we were free to go where we would and do what we would, under certain general restrictions, which had more to do with social proprieties than with school regulations. We roamed the country from tea-time till sun-down; sometimes in the Summer long after that.
You ought to have had half an acre of land, at least, ploughed to-day." "Verra true, mistress. It was nae fau't o' mine. I had mista'en the hour. The funeral didna' come in afore sun-down, and I cam' awa' directly it was ower." "Was it any relation of yours?" "Na, na, jist a freend, an auld acquaintance, but nane o' mine ain kin. I never felt sare sad in a' my life, as I ha' dune this day.
The fat of these animals, I have forgotten to say, is asserted to be an infallible remedy for the rheumatism. In the evening, we again started, and encamped, an hour after sun-down, upon the banks of a clear running stream.
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