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His arms were then secured behind his back with other deer-skin thongs, and another passed round his ankle and given to Alfred. "You were right, Malachi," said Captain Sinclair, "how he contrived to twist himself out of our grasp I can not imagine; but he certainly would have been off, probably have broken our heads before he went."
Within the log-huts sat the squaws of the party, all busily employed sewing beads on moccasins, or ornamenting deer-skin pouches, after the fashion of the dames of old in the absence of their true knights; our guide addressed these ladies roughly enough; but without eliciting any reply more encouraging than a sort of "Ugh! ugh!" unaccompanied by a single look.
This simple structure, the ground plan and elevation of which were taken from the Smithsonian Report, is thus described by Mr. The lodge is nearly elliptical, about twelve or thirteen feet in diameter and six feet high, very similar to a tea-cup turned over. The door is about four feet high, and is simply a deer-skin fastened above and hanging down.
To raw hides succeeded tanned leather, made of goat-skin, deer-skin, &c.; this, after being accurately cut out to the shape of the sole, was fastened on the bare upper surface of the foot by two thongs, of which one was usually carried within the great toe, and the other in many circumvolutions round about the ankles, so that both finally met and tied just above the instep.
"Going to," said Scarlett, laconically, as he swung himself back, and then hand over hand passed along the front of the gallery, reached the turn, grasped the second of the descending balusters, loosed his hold of the last one on the level of the landing, made a dash to catch the first baluster side by side with that he already held, missed it, and swung round, hanging by one hand only, when suddenly there was a loud crick-crack, and, under the impression that the slight wooden pillar had broken, Fred sprang up the stairs to his companion's assistance, but only to trip as he nearly reached the top and fall sprawling upon the landing upon a great deer-skin rug.
"I can still remember very well how at one of the great Dionysiac festivals, fired by the power of the god, you rushed through the streets with a deer-skin over your shoulders." "That was delightful lovely!" cried Doris with sparkling eyes. "But thirty years since it was all different, very different.
She has no occasion to present the Indian in a theatrical garb a mere thing of paint and feathers, less like the original than his own rude delineation on birch-bark or deer-skin.
And the prince said, 'With large, red eyes, attired in deer-skin, and resembling a celestial in beauty, the youth who strung that foremost of bows and brought down to the ground the mark set on high, was soon surrounded by the foremost of Brahmanas who also offered him their homage for the feat he had achieved.
All I know is, he was covered with smoked deer-skin, in some such fashion as the great chief Ponteac, only, instead of having his head bare and shaved, he wore a strange outlandish sort of a hat, covered over with wild birds' feathers in front." "Enough," interrupted the governor, motioning the man to silence; then, in an undertone to himself, "By Heaven, the very same."
She was very white, Tommy, for the matter o' that, she was always one o' these very white women, that never got red in the face, but she never cried a whimper. Most wimin would have cried. It was queer, but she never cried. I thought so at the time. "She was very tall, with a lot o' light hair meandering down the back of her head, as long as a deer-skin whip-lash, and about the color.
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