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Updated: June 26, 2025
We now saw that their soldier-like appearance was owing to the stiff, erect manner in which they sat on their short legs, "Bolt-up-right," as Peterkin expressed it. They had black heads, long sharp beaks, white breasts, and bluish backs. Their wings were so short that they looked more like the fins of a fish, and, indeed, we soon saw that they used them for the purpose of swimming under water.
His legs, twisted one above the other in a squatting attitude, were lean and hairy, and covered with open sores which were kept open by the swarm of insects that infested him. His loin-cloth was rotting from him. His emaciated body powdered and smeared with ashes and dust and worse was perched bolt-up-right on a flat earth dais that had once on a time been the throne of a crossroads idol.
One looks for people going in who seem to go with chimes of bells. And when one goes in, one finds them again and again, inside, all these bolt-up-right, faintly sing-song congregations. One wonders about the churches. What is there that is being said in them that should make any one feel like singing?
The sweet little Anna Gessner of my youth has got the megrims and is off to Miss Bolt-up-Right to have a good cry together eh, what, are you going to cry, Anna? Hang me if you wouldn't give the crocodiles six pounds and a beating eh, what, six pounds and a beating and odds on any day."
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