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To make or "roll up" your swag: lay the fly or strip of calico on the ground, blueys on top of it; across one end, with eighteen inches or so to spare, lay your spare trousers and shirt, folded, light boots tied together by the laces toe to heel, books, bundle of old letters, portraits, or whatever little knick-knacks you have or care to carry, bag of needles, thread, pen and ink, spare patches for your pants, and bootlaces.
You're going in there now with full authority, but don't you fall or stub your toe or get sick or make any mistakes. If you do, God help you! if you do, I'll eat you alive! I'm a good employer, Witla. I'll pay any price for good men, within reason, but if I think I'm being done, or made a fool of, or a man is making a mistake, then there's no mercy in me not a single bit.
This Rest Camp of ours was near the toe and rather to the left of the centre line; in full view of Achi Baba itself, but screened to some extent from its lower slopes by an insignificant intermediate crest-line about 200 yards to our front. The so-called "trenches" as we found them, bore more resemblance to hastily constructed strings of golf bunkers than to anything else on earth.
Professor Huxley has admirably reconstructed for us the pedigree of the horse, beginning with a little creature from the Eocene beds of New Mexico, with five toes to each hind foot, and ending with the modern horse, whose hoof is now practically reduced to a single and solid-nailed toe.
"I suppose an impulse to offer the man a garment of some sort moved me to address him. "'You're nearly naked, I said. "He crossed one leg over the other with the toe of the carpet slipper touching the walk, in the manner of a burlesque actor, took the cigarette out of his mouth with a little flourish, and replied to me: "'Sure, Governor, I ain't dolled up like John Drew.
He got almost to the door so near that his toe struck against a corner of the belabelled bulletin board when a sudden revulsion swept his desires back like a huge wave. He stood a second irresolutely and then turned back. "Aw hell! What's the use?" he muttered. The clock was just on the last stroke of five when he went up to the clerk in his hotel. "Say, when does the next train pull out?
Rothchild's bonnet awry. Still Europena stood there, an evident victim of lockjaw. "'I have a little finger," prompted her mother frantically from the second row front. A single ray of intelligence flickered for a moment over the child's face, and with a supreme effort she said: "I have a little finger, An' I have a little beau; When I get a little bigger I'll have a little toe."
Next I got my old moonshee, or native writer, to write some Persian characters on a piece of paper; I then gave him this paper, muttering a bit of English rhyme at the time, and telling him this was a powerful spell. I told him to take three hairs from his wife's head, and a paring from her thumb and big toe nails, and at the rising of the moon to burn them outside the walls of his hut.
Lieutenant Hanson said that he would remain on the spot, though his rockets would be useless, as not a man could be clinging to the wreck. "Let me have one of your people to assist in carrying this poor fellow to my cottage then," said Lieutenant Pack; "it is more than Tom and I can accomplish, seeing that my timber toe is apt to stick in the soft sand as I trudge along."
Cat; in the second place, that he was a professional lady-killer, and therefore likely at some period to resume his profession; thirdly, and to conclude, that a connection so begun, must, in the nature of things, be likely to end speedily. Catherine the toe of his boot, for the purpose of lifting her on to his horse. "Egad!" said he to the Corporal one day, when confiding his griefs to Mr.
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