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"Kicking, my boy!" groaned the squire. "I wish they had kicked the monster to death who has done this." "Done this! Has anybody done this?" faltered Dick, while Tom turned quite white. "Yes; don't you understand?" "No, father," cried Dick, looking at him vacantly. "The poor beasts have been houghed hamstrung by some cruel wretch. Here, quick!"
Your junk is wrecked; all your oil and blubber from the whale is lost; four of your men have run away, one is killed, another one we caught and let go, another one has been hamstrung; and you yourself are our prisoner, with your teeth filed down to your gums. Now," continued Wilbur, with the profoundest gravity, "I hope this will be a lesson to you. Don't try and get too much the next time.
When the beasts arrived in too great numbers to be dealt with in the buildings, you could see hundreds of cattle being killed in the open all over the grounds in the old barbarous way the gauchos use, every animal being first lassoed, then hamstrung, then its throat cut a hideous and horrible spectacle, with a suitable accompaniment of sounds in the wild shouts of the slaughterers and the awful bellowings of the tortured beasts.
Wilbur had only time to think that he himself would no doubt be killed within the next few moments, when this latter halted abruptly, took a step forward, and, instead of striking downward, as Wilbur had anticipated, dropped upon his knee and struck with all his might at the calf of Wilbur's leg. It was only the thickness of his boots that saved Wilbur from being hamstrung where he stood.
I have a feeling that if one only shook Jerry a little, he would disgorge them all dates of battles, maxims, memorabilia of all sorts, a heterogeneous mess. He's full to the brim, I tell you, and ready to explode. Suppose he did! How would you like to be hit in the midriff by an apothegm of Cicero, or be hamstrung by the subjunctive pluperfect of an irregular French verb?"
Egad, he dashed at the old lord, and there would have been inlake among the perrage, if the Master had not whipt roundly in, and hamstrung him with his cutlass. He was but sixteen then, bless his heart!" "And is he as ready with the gun as with the couteau?" said Sir William.
In a little hollow of the foothills its mother, hamstrung by a pair of wolves and exhausted by her gallant fight against the inevitable, was making a last frantic effort to defend her offspring cowering between her feet. The revolver flashed twice vengefully and then a third time mercifully, for the poor doe's condition was hopeless.
"Beta," cried he, "we're up against it this time for fair and we can't hit back!" "Our bungalow! Our precious home!" "I know." He saw that she was crying: "It's a rotten shame and all that, but it isn't fatal." He brought the Pauillac down-wind again, coasting high over the bungalow, whence smoke now issued ever more and more thickly. "We're simply hamstrung this time, that's all.
Pretty Peg he swore ought to be banished the estate the cow ought to be hamstrung instead of having a spot promised her; "but this is the way, sir, you ruin the country and the people," said he to his father. "Be that as it may, I do not ruin myself as you do, Marcus," replied the cool Sir Ulick. "Never mind the cow nonsense! I am not thinking of a cow." "Nor I neither, sir."
Independent of his depredations on the Coromandel, a Portuguese ship, &c., nine Europeans of the Hecate have been seized and made slaves; two have been since murdered; two have escaped; and five are hamstrung and otherwise maimed. Mrs. Ross and her son are still in slavery there.
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