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Updated: April 30, 2025
Here were evidences of cultivation a rare sight in this country an acre or two of rich soil studded with last season's dead corn-stalks of the thickness of your thumb and very wide apart. But in such a land it was a thrilling spectacle. Close to it was a stream, and on its banks a great herd of curious-looking Syrian goats and sheep were gratefully eating gravel.
The native cemetery is a curious-looking place, for on each grave is placed the clothes of the dead one and any other belongings he has. No one knows the origin or object of this custom. They are not for the journey to the happy hunting ground apparently, for missionaries say they have never heard the natives speak of any kind of a future state.
It might have been a moment, it might have been an hour, later, when there came a sudden, urgent knocking at his door. He sat up in bed. "Come in," he called out, now wide awake. The door opened slowly and there came through it a curious-looking figure. It was James Tapster, arrayed in a wonderful dressing-gown made of Persian shawls, and edged with fur.
There was also a picture from the aquarium, in which she was swimming about in a great glass tank amid some curious-looking plants, with nothing on her body but golden scales and diamond ornaments.
"There's a curious-looking gull I should like to shoot," exclaimed Fred, pointing to a bird that hovered over his head, and throwing forward the muzzle of his gun. "Fire away, then," said his friend, stepping back a pace. Fred, being unaccustomed to the use of firearms, took a wavering aim and fired. "What a bother! I've missed it!"
Scattered about the floor, and on rudely-constructed work-benches, as though the persons using them had hastily abandoned their employment, were many curious-looking tools and machines, together with heaps of metal of different sizes, and in different stages of manufacture, from the merely moulded shape to the finished shilling or guinea.
Pourquoi moques-tu ton esclave Qui sert un destin immortel!" Here a sudden rustle in the leaves on the other side of the hedge startled her, and a curious-looking human head adorned profusely with somewhat disordered locks of red hair perked up enquiringly. Cicely jumped back with an exclamation. "Saint Moses! What is it?" "It is me! Merely me!" and Sir Morton Pippitt's quondam guest, Mr.
They swam towards it as quickly as they could, and had just reached the chair, as a curious-looking fish with a very long nose, and wearing shoes on the end of his long tail, and a tall hat swam past. He looked at them inquisitively, and then stood a little way at the back of them, waiting till they should be disengaged.
"Yes, sir, I remember it well," responded Robin, "the room into which the conducting-wires from the ends of the cable are led to the testing-tables, on which are the curious-looking galvanometers and other testing machines." "Just so," returned Smith, pleased with his pupil's aptitude. "Well, on that table stands Professor Thomson's delicate and wonderful galvanometer.
It is true the boots perplexed them a little, and the less ingenious among the men made very rare and curious-looking foot-gear for themselves, but they succeeded after a fashion, and at last the whole crew appeared on deck in their new habiliments, as we have already mentioned, capering among the snow like bears, to their own entire satisfaction and to the intense delight of Meetuck, who now came to regard the white men as brothers so true is it that "the tailor makes the man!"
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