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The Bushman kept watch also, but towards morning, feeling very tired, he was overcome by sleep, and as he slept, he dreamed, and what do you think that he dreamed? he dreamed that he fell from the tree into the jaws of the lion. Starting up in horror, from the effects of his dream, he lost his hold, and falling from the branch, down he came with all his weight right on the back of the lion.
But he would convey to her in half words, looks, and tones that he had reason to believe Colin unworthy of her that her husband had led the life of an ordinary bushman, and had fully availed himself of such material pleasures as might have come to his hand.
As the lion appeared very angry at this interference with his rights as lord of the manor, and evidently inclined to punish the Bushman as a poacher upon his preserves, the latter, perceiving a tree convenient, climbed up into it as fast as he could. The lion allowed the herd of zebras to go away, and turned his attention to the Bushman.
In vain did Michel Ardan and he rush across the plain still wet with dew, jump the creeks, take the shortest cuts; they could not reach Skersnaw Wood before half-past five. Barbicane must have entered it half-an-hour before. There an old bushman was tying up faggots his axe had cut. Maston ran to him crying "Have you seen a man enter the wood armed with a rifle?
Nearly every bushman has at least one superstition, or notion, that lasts his time as nearly every bushman has at least one dictionary word which lasts him all his life. Brummy had a gloomy notion Lord knows how he got it! that he should 'a' gone on the boards if his people hadn't been so ignorant.
"Da am goin roost for da nacht now we'll get 'em in bag-full," said Swartboy, with a pleased look; for Swartboy was a regular locust-eater, as fond of them as either eagle or kite, aye, as the "springhaan-vogel" itself. It was as Swartboy had stated. The swarm was actually settling down on the plain. "Can't fly without sun," continued the Bushman. "Too cold now. Dey go dead till da mornin."
Barbicane, the president my best friend?" The worthy secretary of the Gun Club thought naïvely that all the world must know his president. But the bushman did not seem to understand. "A sportsman," then said Ardan. "A sportsman? Yes," answered the bushman. "Is it long since?" "About an hour ago." "Too late!" exclaimed Maston. "Have you heard any firing?" asked Michel Ardan. "No." "Not one shot?"
I rode off to find a doctor, but no doctor could I find; but I met a young bushman, who said he'd get some one to look after you till I could return." "And why didn't you return; and how came you to want two horses to fetch the doctor with?" asked Frank impatiently. "Ah! dear sir, don't be severe with me till you know all. I took both the horses for the same reason that I took the money.
"I heard you was goin' to settle at Kiley's Crossin', lending money to the cockatoos." Peggy looked at him with a meaning glance. "Ye should know me better nor that, Paddy," she said. This cleared the way tremendously. The gaunt bushman hitched himself a little nearer, and spoke in an insinuating way. "I'm pretty tired of this case meself, I dunno how you feel about it." "Tired!" said Peggy.
He stopped when Jim advanced, and Carrie said, "This is Mr. Davies; he was at the Woolsworth store with me." Jim said he was glad to see him and studied the fellow when they sat down. Davies was young and rather handsome. He wore overalls, long leggings, and an expensive buckskin jacket, but although his skin was brown, he did not look like a bushman.
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