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They scaled the wall; Vidal remained astride of it, leaning forward and watching for signs of any one. Manuel and El Bizco, making their way astraddle along the wall, approached the house and, entrusting their feet to the roof of a shed, jumped down to a terrace with a bower slightly higher than the orchard.
Then it will be heated red-hot and he will prance around hell astraddle of it. But in the meantime he is hot after the honors of this world. Give him his crown, say we. He has prepared a nice, new hair mattress on his brow where the diadem will rest easy. Under his coat of arms to wit, a yellow he-goat rampant in a field of purple thistles let him write the word 'Victory."
But pretty soon he struggled up astraddle and grabbed the bridle, a-reeling this way and that; and the next minute he sprung up and dropped the bridle and stood! and the horse a-going like a house afire too. He just stood up there, a-sailing around as easy and comfortable as if he warn't ever drunk in his life and then he begun to pull off his clothes and sling them.
"Helen Alison says the Doctor saw her out in the country riding astraddle. Her mother ought to spank her." Mother looked at Missy sharply. "Don't let me ever hear of YOU doing anything like that!" Missy hung her head, but luckily mother took it for just a general attitude of dejection. "I can't tolerate tomboys." she went on. "I can't imagine what's come over you lately."
At last the bride, robed in an izar and veiled, mounted a horse astraddle, and went round to pay her last visit to her neighbours as a maiden. Coming back, the bride and the bridegroom met in the street, and then we all adjourned to her father's house, where there were more ceremonies and festivities.
Behind him, still holding to the cord that bound his wrists, his two stolid guards stared uncomprehendingly; the old sergeant, his face one wrinkled mass of bland knowingness, stood with his thumbs in his belt and his short, fat legs astraddle. She leaned forward she seemed to sway like a wind-blown stalk and stared at the prisoner's quiet face. Jovannic saw her lips part in a movement of pain.
We were but a few paces behind, following close upon him, and soon had captured their line of works. We were firing at the flying foe astraddle of their lines of battle. This would naturally throw us in front, and Cleburne's corps supporting us. The Yankee lines seemed routed.
Boys, it strikes me that it must be an animal of some sort!" came from the experienced Frank. "Goodness gracious! I hope it hasn't devoured poor old Toby," gasped Will. "Well, make your mind up on that score, for it hasn't yet! Just look aloft a bit right above where the thing is jumping about as if worrying something. What do you see astraddle that limb, eh?" asked Frank, triumphantly.
The adjutant tries to be smart and polite, smiles a smole both child-like and bland, rolls up his shirt-sleeves, and winks one eye at you, gets astraddle of a camp-stool, whistles a little stanza of schottische, and with a big flourish of his pen, writes the major- general's name in small letters, and his own the adjutant's in very large letters, bringing the pen under it with tremendous flourishes, and writes approved and forwarded.
Being thus under the other bank, I would hold the canoe while Billy, astraddle the other end for the purpose of depressing the water to within reach of his hand, would bail away the consequences of our crossing. Then we would make up the quarter of a mile we had lost. We quit at the Organ Pool about three o'clock of the afternoon. Not much was said that evening.
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