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"Here!" he panted, when they had thus put something more than a half-mile behind them. "There isn't anybody has to have a doctor, I guess! What's the use our walkin' so fast?" In truth, Penrod was not walking, for his shorter legs permitted no actual walking at such a speed; his gait was a half-trot. "Oh, WE'RE out for a WALK!" Mr.
I have seen them so distended with food as to be literally incapable of moving. Only yesterday, there swept past these doors a bright procession, going half-trot to a lively chant of music: the funeral of a woman. I enquired of a passer-by the cause of her death. "She ate too much, and burst."
Billy ceased speaking, but still pointed an excited forefinger along the half-obliterated buffalo trail that swung up the prairie, out of the southern horizon. The two boys craned their necks, watching the coming figure, that advanced at a half-trot, half-stride. Billy was right. The man seemed to be moving on cushioned feet. Nothing could give that slow, springing swing except a moccasin.
No one else got in, and when they had passed the only two landmarks she knew the leprous Chinaman's hut and the market garden of Ah Chow, who twice a week jaunted at a half-trot to the township with his hanging baskets, to supply people with vegetables when they had passed these, Laura fell asleep.
From behind them there came a sudden chorus of the wolves, louder and clearer than before. "They've hit the open and we'll have them on the lake inside of two minutes," he cried. "Give me your arms, Rod! There! Can you hold the gun?" He straightened himself, staggering under the other's weight, and set off on a half-trot for the distant tamaracks.
It was followed by a second and a third, and after that came a shout. It was not a loud shout. There was something strained and ghastly about it, and yet it came distinctly to them. "The wounded man," said Alan, in a voice of dismay. "He is calling the others. I should have killed him!" He traveled at a half-trot, and the girl ran lightly at his side. All her courage and endurance had returned.
He had only gasps to feed his straining lungs, and his half-trot, which had long since become a trot, was changed for a lope when Mr. Blakely reached his own best burst of speed. And now people stared at the flying three. The gait of Margaret and Mr. Blakely could be called a walk only by courtesy, while Penrod's was becoming a kind of blind scamper.
Mr Dombey made a very gracious reply; and Major Bagstock, having patted Paul on the head, and said of Florence that her eyes would play the Devil with the youngsters before long 'and the oldsters too, Sir, if you come to that, added the Major, chuckling very much stirred up Master Bitherstone with his walking-stick, and departed with that young gentleman, at a kind of half-trot; rolling his head and coughing with great dignity, as he staggered away, with his legs very wide asunder.
But I am in a hurry, and I am sorry to see you riding that mule." "General," I returned, "that is one of the best horses at the fort." "It isn't a horse at all," he said, "but if it's the best you've got we shall have to start." We rode side by side as we left the fort. My mule had a fast walk, which kept the general's horse most of the time in a half-trot.
"He's got papa's CANE!" Then, resuming her little chant, she began to sing: "It's goin' to rain Willie's got papa's cane it's goin' to rain Willie's got papa's cane!" She put all of her voice into a final effort. The attention of several chance pedestrians had been attracted, and the burning William, breaking into an agonized half-trot, disappeared round the corner.
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