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Here we halted, and the savages went to some great piles of stones, and brought out from under them a number of seal-skins, which were spread over some narwhal horns that were just like 'Old Crumply, and in a few hours they had pitched two tents, under which we all slept soundly, being very tired.
It dinged his mood, of course, so that the red under his eyes and the folds of his crumply cheeks which seemed to speak of a touch of bloodhound introduced a long way back into his breeding drew deeper and more manifest. If he could have spoken at such times, he would have said: "I have been a long time alone, and I cannot always be asleep; but you know best, and I must not criticise."
To this horn we had already become much attached, and, as if to express our gratitude, we had bestowed upon it several names, as, for instance, 'Life-preserver, 'Crumply Crowbar, 'The Castaway's Friend, and the like of that; but the title which finally stuck to it was 'Old Crumply, not that it was exactly a crumply horn, like the one that grew on the head of the cow that tossed the dog, that worried the cat, that killed the rat, that ate the malt, that lay in the house that Jack built, for it was not crumply at all in that sense, but, on the contrary, was as straight as an arrow, and was no further crumply than crumply means wrinkled and twisted; and, indeed, the old horn looked as if it might have been once red-hot, and had been twisted several times around before it had cooled off.
He flapped his ears lazily, he turned around without spilling them out, and marched up the line as if it was just nothing at all. Daisy was thrilling with enjoyment. Her eyes shone and her cheeks were like roses. She even put her hand on the elephant's crumply back, as they came down the steps, and smiled in Doctor Joe's face, as he held her by the arm. "You were so good to let me go.
"I wish I could give it all to you it was great to hear him. He said no matter how fine we were as individuals, or how well we did our work, unless we had it in our hearts to work with others, and for others it was no good. If we lacked social consciousness, our work would not amount to much. I thought of our old crumply horn cow.
"Tripe de roche!" answered he. "Tripe de roche?" "Yes," replied Norman, "look there!" and he pointed to one of the rocks directly ahead of them, at the same time moving forward to it. The others hastened up after. It was a black, hard, crumply substance, that nearly covered the surface of the rock, and was evidently of a vegetable nature.
If you want to know, it reminded me of those things in bottles in those herbalistic shops at Plymouth preserved in spirits of wine. White an' crumply things previous to birth as you might say." "You 'ave a beastial mind, Pye," said the Sergeant, relighting his pipe. "Perhaps. We were in the front row, an' 'Home an' Friends' came on early. Vickery touched me on the knee when the number went up.
Through her thin linen sleeve she could feel the crumply warmth of his familiar brown jersey coat. She observed that there were purple and red gold threads interwoven with the brown. She remembered the first time she had seen it. Their talk was nothing but improvisations on the theme: "I never did like this Haydock. He just considers his own convenience."
"We kept our promise to give Eatum all our property; but the captain of the Rob Roy wanted 'Old Crumply' and 'The Dean's Delight, and our pot and lamp, and some other things; so he gave Eatum other valuables in place of them.
"Hurrying on, we picked up 'Old Crumply' and 'Dean's Delight, and then hastened back to the hut, which we reached without any further adventure; but on the day following, upon going out to visit our fox-traps, we came across the bear's tracks, from which it was evident to us that the wild beast was prowling round the island, where he had already obtained one good meal, and was in hopes, no doubt, of getting another; and, as we did not know how soon he might feel disposed to begin upon us, we ran back to the hut with all speed, imagining, as we went along, that every rock and snow-drift that we passed was a bear.
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