United States or Isle of Man ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
He spoke with feverish rapidity, as though he found speaking a relief. "It was the old chalk-pit. You know the place or p'r'aps you don't. It's a ten-foot drop. The brute went clean over, and he must have rolled on her or kicked her getting up." He drew a sharp breath between his teeth. "When I found her she was lying all crumpled up. I thought her back was broken at first."
The first notable demonstration of his trailing powers was his tracking down of a missing ewe, across several miles of open Down, to the edge of a remote, disused chalk-pit, into which the foolish creature had fallen and broken its neck.
I loitered about in my chalk-pit for a while; noted a new flower that sprinkled the high grassy ledges that I had never seen there before; and then sate down in a little dingle that commanded a wide view of the fen.
Fletcher, and help me to find the way?" "I will, of course, do anything you like; but I warn you, Lady Edith, that riding about these downs in a fog is most dangerous; I as nearly as possible went over a chalk-pit fifty feet deep." "Oh, Mr. Fletcher, I must get home; I cannot stay here all night; it is ridiculous." They talked so for a few minutes.
"Presently I came to a spot where the rough road divided. One well-worn track led down towards the footpath that ultimately enters the London Road; a fainter track led, as I knew, to an old chalk-pit where, in mysterious caverns, the farm carts rested through the winter months. Here I halted for a moment as if in doubt.
"Walter, my boy," exclaimed Mr Huntingdon, stretching out his hand to his younger son, "it was bravely done. If it had not been for you, we might have been hanging over the mouth of the chalk-pit yet or, perhaps, been down at the bottom. You are a lad after your father's own heart, good old-fashioned English pluck and courage; there's nothing I admire so much."
If we chose to roll upon our right sides, the whole weald lay in front of us, with the North Downs curving away in olive-green folds, with here and there the snow-white rift of a chalk-pit; if we turned upon our left, we overlooked the huge blue stretch of the Channel.
On the extreme summit, where the ends of the two converging hedges of which we have spoken were stopped short by meeting the brow of the chalk-pit, he saw the younger dog standing against the sky dark and motionless as Napoleon at St. Helena. A horrible conviction darted through Oak.
Such were, "The way to 'My Heart's Content' is half a league up this road, and then turn to the right, and keep on till you reach it." And another: "The way to 'Love's Hermitage' is up this lane, till you come to the cherry-tree by the side of a chalk-pit, where there is another direction."
He looks like a strong, tough fellow, who can pull hard at all events." Dawson and a few of Blackall's admirers echoed these sentiments, fully believing that he did not boast without reason of what he would do. The carriages were now brought forward from a chalk-pit, where they had been concealed, and formed a line in front of the spectators.
Word Of The Day