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Updated: May 11, 2025
"I shall not betray my people or bur friends, but I shall pass from one force to the other, and whenever I can warn the loyal troops, or apprise their people of danger, I shall do it.
They went back to the horses, where they subjected Dolly to a rigid examination that disclosed nothing. Hoofs, legs, bit, mouth, body everything was as it should be. The saddle and saddle-cloth were innocent of bur or sticker; the back was smooth and unbroken. They searched for sign of snake-bite and sting of fly or insect, but found nothing.
One day, when he was in a particularly happy mood, and the Scotch bur was delightfully apparent, as it was when he was either very angry or very happy, an elderly woman pushed her way through the throng and seizing the hand that ruled the Oliver Plow Works in both of her own, said in ecstatic tones: "Oh! it is such a joy to see you again. Twenty years ago I used to hear you preach every Sunday!"
"Who, in the Wood Witch's name, brought you in our way, for now we shall have no luck. Begone from our sight." But the old woman insisted that she could bring the girl from the forest. And she stuck to the heralds like a bur to a sheep.
Francezka looked at me angrily for a moment, then smiled and took my hand in her two velvet palms. "Babache, you are like a chestnut bur, sometimes but I love you and I shall always heed what you tell me. Can I do more?" She then rose and we walked about the garden, and looked down at the lake, still darkly shaded by the cedars on the brink, although the sun was now blazing in the east.
Two or three minutes passed; Victor's voice became indistinct and finally was heard no longer, Madame surveyed the Chevalier with a lurking scornful smile. This man was going to force her to love him! "Monsieur, you seem determined to annoy me. I shall not ask you to speak again." "Is it possible that I can still annoy you, Madame?" Madame crushed a bur with her foot . . . and gasped.
This description was afterwards given briefly in his "History of the Manners and Customs of the Indian Nations." Jesuit Relations for 1636, pp. 129-139. See translation in Thomas's "Burial Mounds of the Northern Section of the United States," Fifth Annual Rept. Bur. Ethnol., p. 110.
Guests and strangers slept there; not in the portico, as in Homer. "Here were the lock-beds." There were butteries; one of these was reached by a ladder. The dyngja was originally called bur, our "bower"; the ballads say "in bower and hall."
"I will try to remember the last stanza and the envoi as we go along," added Victor. And together they passed down the ravine, two brave hearts assuming a gaiety which deceived only the Chevalier, who still reclined against the boulder and was proceeding silently to inspect the golden plush of an empty bur.
An old Chinaman, whose wrinkled face looked like parchment cried out: "Why do you even ask the cause of our bad luck? Do you not know why it has come upon us? Were not those white-faced women here again yesterday whose God is the enemy of our God? Again they have carried off bur babies to the great white house in Hongkong.
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