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You must get him to tell you how he swam across a pond at the tail of a bull-moose, holding with his fingers and teeth to the creature's long hair, then got astraddle of its back, and severed its jugular vein with his hunting-knife. How's that! It was the liveliest swim I ever heard of. But I mustn't spoil his yarns. He must tell them himself.
Back of solid "country kip"; fronts of substantial French calf; heel one inch high, with steel nails; countered outside; straps narrow, of fine French calf put on "astraddle," and set down to the top of the back. The out-sole stout, Spanish oak and pegged rather than sewed, although either is good.
After thus assigning to everyone his place, the guide sat astraddle on the thick end of the trunk, and the three men jogged the dangerous vehicle along like a six-footed dragon till it toppled over the edge of the slope. "Forward, dragon! in Heaven's name, forward!" The pine trunk, once set in motion, glided down the smooth, mirror-like incline like a dart.
"'It will take a hundred and fifty of any man's money to buy him, I says. 'Friend nor foe don't get him for a cent less. "Well, we went out to the hoss, and Wilks got astraddle of him, and, sir, he took him round the square in the purtiest rack you ever saw shuffle under a saddle. I saw Wilks thought I was his game, for his eyes was dancing as he lit and hitched.
The other leaned more against the rock, half sitting and half astraddle, and wearing leathern overalls, as if newly come from riding. I could see his face quite clearly by the light of the open lanthorn, and a handsomer or a bolder face I had seldom, if ever, set eyes upon; insomuch that it made me very unhappy to think of his being so near my Lorna. "How long am I to stand crouching here?"
And he got up, standing astraddle to brace himself against the swinging of the train, while he stretched, settling himself in his clothes pulled down the fronts of his waistcoat, buttoned the jacket of his light check suit; and, taking off his wide-awake, smoothed his soft, slightly curly russet-coloured hair with his hand.
He made a few turns around the room, astraddle of his chair, and ended by a grand somersault, as if his steed had dismounted him.
On the road Tom he told me all about how it was reckoned I was murdered, and how pap disappeared pretty soon, and didn't come back no more, and what a stir there was when Jim run away; and I told Tom all about our Royal Nonesuch rapscallions, and as much of the raft voyage as I had time to; and as we struck into the town and up through the here comes a raging rush of people with torches, and an awful whooping and yelling, and banging tin pans and blowing horns; and we jumped to one side to let them go by; and as they went by I see they had the king and the duke astraddle of a rail that is, I knowed it WAS the king and the duke, though they was all over tar and feathers, and didn't look like nothing in the world that was human just looked like a couple of monstrous big soldier-plumes.
He turned slowly, with horrible slowness, Cogan thought, when he recalled how fast he could move when he wanted to. "He turned too slowly. The bull caught him sideways, and when he came down, it was astraddle of the bull's back, from which he fell to the sand beside the bull, who had wheeled and was waiting.
Nowell was riding on a wild buffalo; Alfred had mounted on the shoulders of a bear; and Solon, with the greatest gravity, was astraddle on, the back of a monster crocodile, to which Saint George's green dragon was a mere pigmy, when the crocodile took it into his head to plunge into the sea, at which Solon remonstrated and barked vehemently.
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