bylegharies

Updated: July 7, 2025

You'll fix bayonets and charge magazines now. I expect a pretty big convoy and before very long. Probably a mob all round a couple of bylegharies and a crowd following everybody distrusting every one, as it is treasure, looted from all round.

Percival Christopher Wren - Driftwood Spars: The Stories of a Man, a Boy, a Woman, and Certain Other People Who: Strangely Met Upon the Sea of Life

For a week he travelled only by night, and thereafter boldly by day, getting lifts in bylegharies, doing odd jobs, living as the crows and jackals live when jobs were unavailable, receiving many a kindness from other wayfarers, especially those of the poorer sort, but always faring onward to the West, ever onward to the setting sun, always to the sea and Africa, until the wonderful and blessed day when he believed for a moment that he was mad and that his eyes and brain were playing him tricks.... After months and months of weary travel, always toward the setting sun, he had arrived one terrible evening of June at a wide river and a marvellous bridge a great bridge hung by mighty chains upon mightier posts which stood up on either distant bank.

Percival Christopher Wren - Driftwood Spars: The Stories of a Man, a Boy, a Woman, and Certain Other People Who: Strangely Met Upon the Sea of Life