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He was to show us the way to the spot where he had found Eppelem, and was now squatted on a very big black horse, from which his little legs, with their strange gear of catskins, stuck out after a fashion wondrous to behold.
Their dress was a girdle of strips of catskins, and they each carried two javelins and a knobbed stick for throwing. They were heartily welcomed by our travelers, who placed before them a large quantity of eland-steaks, and filled their boxes with snuff.
These places of deposit are strongly built, and well supplied with iron thumb-screws and gags, and ornamented with catskins and other whips often times bloody."
Their dress was a girdle of strips of catskins, and they each carried two javelins and a knobbed stick for throwing. They were heartily welcomed by our travellers, who placed before them a large quantity of eland-steaks, and filled their boxes with snuff.
He was to show us the way to the spot where he had found Eppelem, and was now squatted on a very big black horse, from which his little legs, with their strange gear of catskins, stuck out after a fashion wondrous to behold.
So I will go forth, and away, through frost and snow, to find my brethren; and if his pains keep Kubbeling at home in spite of his catskins, and if Master Ulsenius should forbid Eppelein to ride so far, yet will we find some other to be our faithful squire."
So I will go forth, and away, through frost and snow, to find my brethren; and if his pains keep Kubbeling at home in spite of his catskins, and if Master Ulsenius should forbid Eppelein to ride so far, yet will we find some other to be our faithful squire."
"Never mind, Trudchen," answered the brother kindly; "meantime I have kept all the wild catskins for thee, and may be this this SHE could sew them up into a mantle for thee." "O let me see," cried the young lady eagerly; and Sir Eberhard, walking off, presently returned with an armful of the beautiful brindled furs of the mountain cat, reminding Christina of her aunt's gentle domestic favourite.
He instantly darted, hands and head foremost, into the mass of cinders and rubbish, and brought up a black mass of half-burnt parchment, entwined with vegetable refuse, from which he speedily disengaged an oval frame of gold, containing a miniature, still protected by its glass, but half covered with mildew from the damp. He was in ecstacies at the prize. Even the white catskins paled before it.
Indeed, one tall, thin fellow sported only a battered helmet of rusty steel that had drifted here from some European army, a moocha or waistbelt of catskins, and a pair of decayed tennis-shoes through which his toes appeared.
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