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They were about the size of small hogs very much of the same build and covered with a thin sandy bristly hair, just like some hogs are. They were not "pigheaded," however. Their heads were exactly like those of the grey rabbit, and instead of hoofs they were toed and clawed.
Nothing could have been more precise or perfect than the outward man, which his honor exhibited to the gaze of his constituents. Neatly-fitting boots, square toed, and of the most elaborate manufacture, encased his feet.
You've done the biggest thing of all by NEEDIN' him." "Needing him!" "Yes. Keith Burton, look at your father now. An' that he used to run from anything an' everything that was unpropitious an' disagreeable, like he was bein' chased. Well, then you was took blind. An' what happened? "You know what happened. He came right up an' toed the mark like a man an' a gentleman. An' he's toed it ever since.
You may surprise yourself and everybody else, if you keep your head." There was something in Roger's words and manner that proved very steadying to Roy, and he toed the slab with an outward show of confidence, whether or not he was inwardly perturbed.
Mayhall straightened his shoulders seeing the game, as did the crowd at once: Flitter Bill was impressing that messenger in case he had some dangerous card up his sleeve. "Captain Wells," Bill repeated significantly, "I'm sorry to say yo' new uniform has not arrived yet. I am expecting it to-morrow." Mayhall toed the line with soldierly promptness.
But, as we crossed the cool lawn, our spirits, which had drooped all day, like flags at half-mast, rose, and fluttered in the summer breeze, and we could not resist a caper or two as we approached the tea-table. The Bishop did not even see us. His fine grave face was buried in a book he had on his knees, and his gaitered legs were bent so that he toed in.
Naturally he did not dare interfere with us white men, though Stanley and I toed the line more than we liked for the sake of business and keeping clear of his ill will. The only one who wasn't scared of the old Tartar, and stood right up to him, was a hulking big Fijian, named Peter Jones.
"Well," says I, "I allowed he'd find it out after a while. Ain't he?" I was sweating awful now and I felt how red my hair was. I toed in so bad my legs was crossed. "I've found out a lot of things," says Old Man Wright now, right sudden and swift. "I been making some mistakes my own self; but you" and he faces their hired man now "you passed yourself off for a servant."
They toed and heeled, shuffled, double- shuffled, double-double-shuffled, covered the buckle, and beat the time out, rarely, dancing with a great show of teeth, and with a childish good-humoured enjoyment that was very prepossessing. They generally kept together, these poor fellows, said Mr.
And, most important of all, Professor Marsh has discovered a series of mammalian remains, occurring in successive geological epochs, which are held to represent beyond cavil the actual line of descent of the modern horse; tracing the lineage of our one-toed species back through two and three toed forms, to an ancestor in the eocene or early tertiary that had four functional toes and the rudiment of a fifth.
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