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Updated: May 13, 2025
I found that, having no mattress on my cot, the cold was much more annoying below than above me, and that if one can't keep the under side warm, it doesn't matter how many blankets he may have atop. I procured later an army cot with low legs, the whole of which could be taken apart and packed in a very small parcel, and with this I carried a small quilted mattress of cotton batting.
In the Calle de Alcala, flowing to the Prado out of the Puerta del Sol, there passed a current of farm-carts and farm-wagons more conspicuous than any urban vehicles, as they jingled by, with men and women on their sleigh-belled donkeys, astride or atop the heavily laden panniers.
The losses were, however, sufficient to put a complete atop to the enterprise out of which the unfortunate Spinola had conceived such extravagant hopes of fame and fortune. The herring-smacks and other coasters, besides the transports passing to and from Ostend, sailed thenceforth unmolested by any galleys from Sluys.
Such things as perching dizzily atop a horse's back, even cantering in graceful insouciance, seemed far, far away.
He could not, of course, eat with the mess, but he came in at dessert, all six feet of him, with the blue and silver turban atop, and the big black boots below. The mess rose joyously as he thrust forward the hilt of his sabre in token of fealty for the colonel of the White Hussars to touch, and dropped into a vacant chair amid shouts of: "Rung ho, Hira Singh!"
They could both swim, yet their floats looked very perilous, three pieces of old plank or slabs, with two cross-pieces and a fragment of a board for a rider, and made without nails or withes. "In some places," said Johnny, "one plank was here and another off there, but we managed, somehow, to keep atop of them."
"I said I'd tell yer, and I will." "Quick then. How?" "There's a kind o' door up atop as opens right over and lies on its back. It's got a bolt to it, but you can shove yer hand under when yer gets up inside them little palings and push it back. Then yer can open the door and get in." "How do you know?" said Sam sharply. "How do I know? 'Cause I've done it." "But up there? How did you get up?"
Kitty-cat almost plumb atop me. Mebby I wasn't scared! I was wonderin' why you set off in sech a hurry. You sure burned the ground down the mountain." "Just stayin' with my saddle," laughed Bailey. "Old Frisco here ain't lost any lions recent." "Will he pack?" "I dunno. Wish it was daylight." "Wish we had another rope," said Pete. "My rope is on my hoss and yours is cinchin' the deer on him.
Wade shuttered her window against the night, although the barred opening in the wall, designed to give light to the window, was well protected by its bristling spikes atop. The gate was padlocked. They remained shaking it long enough to make them fearful that they would have to turn back before Mrs. Wade came flying down the avenue to open to them.
Shot through the lung he were, and a-trying to tell me to put him down and go, the fire being uncommonly 'ot there, you'll understand, sir, and as I say, he were trying to tell me to drop him and run for it, and blowing blood-bubbles wi' every word, when all at once I feels a sort of a shock, and there I was on my back and him atop o' me; and when I went to get up damme! there was my leg gone below the knee, and no pleasant sight, neither."
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