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Updated: June 4, 2025
The brilliant yellow lamas faced by the Mongols in their blazing robes and pointed yellow hats, the women, flashing with "jewels" and silver, the half-wild chant, and the rush of horses, gave a barbaric touch which thrilled and fascinated us. We could picture this same scene seven hundred years ago, for it is an ancient custom which has come down from the days of Kublai Khan.
Here is a sketch of him from Max Schlesinger's new book on the Hungarian war: "The Kanasz is a swineherd, whose occupation, everywhere unpoetical and dirty, is doubly troublesome and dirty in Hungary. Large droves of pigs migrate annually into the latter country from Serbia, where they still live in a half-wild state.
"If those cowardly neighbors, who tried to set out against these Union men, want their property destroyed, let them do the dirty work themselves. I don't believe in making war on people who don't think as I do." "I don't reckon there are any half-wild Unionists in your settlement," said the captain, with a smile. "I know it.
A handsome, graceful figure, agreeable, rather unformed features, kindly bluish eyes, golden hair, a clear white and red skin, and, above all, that peculiar, naively-cheerful, confiding, open, at the first glance, somewhat foolish expression, by which in former days one could recognise directly the children of steady-going, noble families, 'sons of their fathers, fine young landowners, born and reared in our open, half-wild country parts, a hesitating gait, a voice with a lisp, a smile like a child's the minute you looked at him ... lastly, freshness, health, softness, softness, softness, there you have the whole of Sanin.
It took weeks for the girl from Tillbury to regain the half-wild girl's confidence again. Nan was just as busy and happy as she could be, considering the uncertain news from Scotland and Uncle Henry's unfortunate affair with Gedney Raffer. She helped Aunt Kate with the housework early every morning so that they might both hurry into the woods to pick berries.
She would be eyes and ears for him; she would tell him things he did not in the least suspect about the sex. But as to marrying! She rose from her seat, stretching her arms toward the sky and the blossoming trees, in that half-wild gesture which so truly expressed her.
Even tourists, coming down from these mountains to the valley below, struggle with a sense of suffocation and oppression; how must it have been then with this half-wild creature, born and bred on those breezy heights! The stout mules did their duty well, and it was not long before they were in sight of the cross-roads store that had been robbed.
"He has an odd, strange, half-wild beauty," she mused aloud. "A beauty that is quite unusual, I should say, in children of his his station. His hair is silken and, oh so thick! And his eyes and square chin with that little cleft. And his nose his nose, I should say, might be said to denote estheticism and a a ah "
Shortly after our arrival at Don Juan's, one of the largest herds of cattle was driven in towards the house, and three beasts were picked out to be slaughtered for the supply of the establishment. These half-wild cattle are very active; and knowing full well the fatal lazo, they led the horses a long and laborious chase.
Suddenly she stopped, threw up her head, flung her shawl off, and with a movement quick as lightning, put out her hand and caught something. She was holding a girl's slender and round arm. She drew her forward, pushed back her somewhat tawdry hat, and looked into her face. "What are you doing here? What is your name? Speak at once. Tell me the truth." The girl had queer, half-wild eyes.
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