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Updated: May 16, 2025
There was an old man living in this house when I bought it who moved back into the city and took with him, among other things, a big grindstone and two long-handled hayforks for crutches, did he think? and to keep a cutting edge on the scythe of his spirit as he mowed the cobblestones?
And stopping on his crutches, a grim small crooked figure in all this rushing turmoil, John set his jaws, and with his shrewd and twinkling eyes fixed on the top of the tower, he said, "I meant to tell you, Mr. Gale. You was asking me once what I wanted to be. And I want to be an architect." "Do, eh," grunted Roger.
See that bed with the dark-haired little girl in it, the third from the end? That was my cot." "Was your leg broken?" asked David, in a most interested tone. Doctor says now that he really did n't think I'd ever walk again I mean, without crutches." "And you're not lame a bit?" David returned incredulously. "Not a mite, not the least mite!" Polly assured him.
The moment the whisky began to affect me, I forgot that I had crutches, and set my lame leg down with my whole weight upon it. The sudden and agonizing pain caused me to give a scream, and yet I repeated the step a number of times. But the insufferable pain caused me to return home. It was now winter.
Three times a day, Quonab rubbed that blackened ankle. The grease saved the skin from injury, and in a week Rolf had thrown his crutches away. The month of May was nearly gone; June was at hand; that is, the spring was over. In all ages, man has had the impulse, if not the habit, of spring migration. Yielding to it he either migrated or made some radical change in his life.
Spring comes up earlier in the region of Scutari than it does in London, and there were many scores of ragged silken-bearded fellows rambling up and down the streets of the place on crutches before the first leaf had declared itself in any park in London, and almost before the first wayside flower had bloomed in any English country hedgerow.
The other was a cripple who moved slowly, and apparently with difficulty, on crutches. There was nothing remarkable or picturesque enough about them to attract attention. They sat in the corner of the carriage and neither talked much nor seemed to be particularly interested in the journey or each other.
Siward, absorbed in his own thoughts, rose and walked slowly out of the booth, utterly unconscious that he had left his crutches leaning upright in the corner. It was only the surprise dawning into tremulous delight on Sylvia's face that at last arrested him. "See what you have done!" he said, laughing through his own surprise. "I've a mind to leave them there now, and trust to your new cure."
Once again I entered a hospital-train, but this time I would have no mussing round me as if I were a helpless child, but went upright, as a man should, though on crutches. When we journeyed to the port there was one of our good old Australian coasters waiting to bear us back again Home.
There are two openings of this cave; the one, the larger, is like a cage of railings, with the gleam of an altar in the gloom beyond, a hundred burning candles, and sheaves and stacks of crutches clinging to the broken roofs of rock; the other, and smaller, and that farther from us, is an opening in the cliff, shaped somewhat like a vesica.
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