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Three days later Miss Derrick arrived, bringing with her something like half-a-ton of luggage. She bounded up the doorsteps, and, meeting Mrs. Mumford in the hall, kissed her fervently. 'I've got such heaps to tell you Mr. Higgins has given me twenty pounds to go on with for myself; I mean; of course he'll pay everything else. How delighted I am to be here!
As for the lady whom the little rogue had styled "half-a-ton" she walked alone muttering execrations against this "little wretch," and telling herself that there were no Christians, that these women laughed at her, because she chose to remain what Providence had directed she should be, and that Mr.
The mare was not "skittish" by no means according to Tom's idea, but it would have been more than an ordinary mare to have stood the sudden descent of half-a-ton of snow without some symptoms of consciousness.
One Friday, to his great joy, he came across, in the wall of the tell, a large inscribed mass of brickwork, weighing, perhaps, half-a-ton, which, from the cursory inspection he was able to make of it in the semi-darkness, he believed might prove sufficiently valuable to compensate all the disappointments of the weary months.
I permit myself to doubt whether even the Master of Trinity's well-tried courage physical, intellectual, and moral would have been equal to this feat. No doubt the sudden concurrence of half-a-ton of inorganic molecules into a live rhinoceros is conceivable, and therefore may be possible.
He planted himself before Miss Le Grove, to make sure she would see him, made a frightful grimace and shouted: "You're an old half-a-ton." Then he decamped. The other ladies giggled. The company dispersed. A group of youths who were standing near shouted "Well said, gamin." Going home, the topic of the conversation was Miss Le Grove, garnished with a sprinkling of Mr. Rougeant.
Dr Hayward, however, used his spear at this moment with such effect that the seal fell, and another blow from the Herculean club finished its career. As this animal was about half-a-ton in weight, they left it on the beach with the intention of cutting off some steaks on their return, and sending the boat round afterwards to fetch the remainder of the carcass.
Wherever, in his capital, there was space for a statue he has stuck up one in memory of a member of his own dynasty, beginning with a statue apiece for such earlier rulers as Otho the Oboe-Player, and Joachim, surnamed the Half-a-Ton let some one correct me if I have the names wrong and finishing up with forty or fifty for himself. That is, there were forty or fifty of him when I was there.
Wood, observing my interest in this relic of the ice-age, gave it to me on the spot. "No granite in situ hereabouts, the living rock is mountain limestone, but no end of granite boulders, which are blasted to the tune of half-a-ton of tonite per week."
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