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Trees stood farther apart on the flats and brushwood gave place to a forest of ferns, that concealed us in their deep foliage; but the thick growth also hid the enemy, and we knew not at what moment we might emerge in full view of the camp. So we stretched out flat, spying through the fern stalks before we parted the stems to draw ourselves on a single pace.
The game, the food of the coming larva, is first caught and paralysed; the home is excavated afterwards. As the heavy prey would be a grave encumbrance to the Wasp in search of a convenient site, the Spider is placed high up, on a tuft of grass or brushwood, out of the reach of marauders, especially Ants, who might damage the precious morsel in the lawful owner's absence.
'What do I care? Now, jump! 'As if you could catch me! Again she uttered her nervous laugh. 'I am heavy. 'Obey! Jump! he cried impatiently, his eyes afire. She knelt, seated herself, dropped forward. Tarrant caught her in his arms. 'You heavy! a feather weight! Why, I can carry you; I could run with you. And he did carry her through the brushwood, away into the shadow of the trees.
The cowboys would ride like the wind and leap off and on their steeds, turn from frontwards to backwards, slide from the saddle under their horses' necks and up into the saddle again, and lean low to catch up handkerchiefs and hats left on the grass for that purpose. Then they did some fancy vaulting, over bars and brushwood, and while riding two and even four horses. "Good! good!" shouted Dave.
The language of Pius II, especially in describing Tivoli, has a thoroughly sentimental ring, and soon afterwards appeared the first pictures of ruins, with a commentary by Polifilo. Ruins of mighty arches and colonnades, half hid in plane-trees, laurels, cypresses and brushwood, figure in his pages.
Fortunately, Indiana gave the two boys a signal to conceal themselves, where, effectually hidden among the thick, gray, mossy trunks of the cedars at the lake shore, they remained secure from molestation; while the Indian girl dropped noiselessly down among the tangled thicket of wild vines and brushwood, which she drew cautiously over her, and closed her eyes, lest, as she naively remarked, their glitter should be seen and betray her to her enemies.
At that moment Whopper fired, hitting the buck in the right foreleg. Down went the animal, but struggled up a moment later and tried to leap into the brushwood where Shep was concealed. As he came down over the doctor's son, the boy was badly frightened and gave the buck a shove with his hand. Weak from loss of blood the beast fell over.
They then cleared all the ground near the tents of brushwood and high grass, and levelled it nicely with their shovels inside. "Now, William, we have another job, which is to prepare a fireplace for Juno: we must go down to the beach for stones." In another hour the fireplace was completed, and Ready and William looked at their work.
Such a novel as "The Scarlet Letter," such a short-story as "The Brushwood Boy," belong in this third and more extraordinary class. What Hawthorne has to say is searching and profound, and he says it with an equal mastery of structure and of style.
Roldan and Adan recognised that familiar music, and set their teeth. "And I prayed that I might never see another redwood," muttered Adan, crossing himself. The tunnel stopped abruptly. They stood before a mass of brushwood, piled thickly to keep out wild beasts and delude the searching eye of hostile Indians. Beyond, seen in patches, was a dazzle of white.
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