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Updated: June 7, 2025
Now he gave a start, and there was a look of astonishment all round the family as there was the sound of heavy cart-wheels grinding along over the sand under the parsonage windows. In another moment there was a steady tramping on the side steps, then through the passage to the dining-room, where the family were assembled.
"Even every needle is precious!" "I'll bring a dead one, then!" There was no combatting him, she knew, when he was headstrong; and when he was particularly headstrong he would laugh in his soft way. He was laughing now as he took off his spurs and tossed them aside. "No climbing in these cart-wheels, and I shall have to roll up my chaps!"
As I felt the sun coming down warm, I said to myself, 'Those shoes will seem as big as cart-wheels to him.... You were up by Belton's? There's big timber in there still, back on the mountain, where they found it too hard to get out.
I have already mentioned the creaking of the cart-wheels which no Burman would oil, for they believe that the horrible groanings they produce, together with their own loud voices, serve to ward off the evil spirits of the woods; for the Burman is superstitious, and at frequent intervals may be seen tiny wicker-work representations of pagodas and "zeyats" erected to propitiate the forest "nats," and passers-by will deposit in these diminutive shrines some offering of food or ornament, and in the Shan States I remember seeing one whose enclosing fence was hung with spears and "dahs," and other weapons of considerable interest and some value.
There are streams of scarlet and yellow omnibuses racing in the more open parts, and locking each other's wheels in the narrower there are helpless females deposited in the middle of a sea of slippery mud, condemned to run a gauntlet between cart-wheels and horses' hoofs there are loaded stages hastening to and from the huge hotels carts and waggons laden with merchandise and "Young Americans" driving fast-trotting horses, edging in and out among the crowd wheels are locked, horses tumble down, and persons pressed for time are distracted.
In the water are fish and water-snakes, which alert herons constantly harass, and, strange as it may seem, in the river-bed itself are the marks of cart-wheels, for the Burmans often make a highway of these forest streams, which in the dry season are generally easier to travel than the roads. The forest itself is never monotonous, its growths varying according to the levels of the hills.
He followed my advice, and when with some difficulty we had checked the descending motion of the cart-wheels, we took a fair start, and the summit of the hill was finally gained. "Its often," said Terry, "that I've seen a horse draw a cart, but I niver before saw a cart drawing a horse."
At evening bonfires are kindled on the heights, and the boys caper round them, brandishing lighted torches drenched in pitch. Whoever jumps thrice across the fire will not suffer from fever within the year. Cart-wheels are often smeared with pitch, ignited, and sent rolling and blazing down the hillsides. All over Bohemia bonfires still burn on Midsummer Eve.
"Are ye no gaein to get a minister o' yer ain, Thamas?" resumed George, after a pause, still wishing to turn the cart-wheels of the conversation out of the deep ruts in which the stiff-necked Thomas seemed determined to keep them moving. "Na; we'll bide a bit, and try the speerits. We'll ken whaur the water comes frae. We'll taste them a', and cheese accordin'."
Every leaf on the sycamore is spotted as if with some foul black acid. Here, too, however, as soon as the leaves have fallen, the world is restored to cheerfulness. The withering tree seems a sufferer. The fallen leaf is an imp, an adventurer. As the wind sweeps round a bend in the road, leaf after leaf is up and performing cart-wheels down the road as if Christmas Day had come.
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