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The only animals were fowls and pigs; small strong cages acting as hogstyes showed that leopards were dangerous; in 1816 Lieutenant Hawkey found signs of these animals, together with elephant, wild boar, and antelope. Now there is no sport below the cataracts, and possibly very little, except in the water, above them.
They learned then that the stagecoach is but a poor, plodding, vulgar thing in the solitudes of the highway; and that the pirate is only a seedy, unfantastic "rough," when he is out of the pictures. Toward evening, the stage-coach came thundering into Hawkeye with a perfectly triumphant ostentation which was natural and proper, for Hawkey a was a pretty large town for interior Missouri.
He never went there again, but when the younger Fawkes brought the Rhine drawings up to London for him to see again, he passed his hand over the "Lorelei Twilight," saying, with tears in his eyes, "But Hawkey! but Hawkey!" When Mr. Wells, an artist of Addiscomb, died he mourned his loss bitterly, and exclaimed to his daughter: "Oh, Clara, Clara, these are iron tears!
And then there's Bet Hawkey as murdered her own infant only the poor little babby hadn't learned to walk, and so can't appear ag'in her." THOMAS HOOD, <i>The Grimsby Ghost</i>.
Fawkes, the artist took too much wine, and reeled about, exclaiming, "Hawkey, I am the real lion I am the great lion of the day, Hawkey." When Mr. Fawkes died, ended Turner's visits to Farnley.
They learned then that the stagecoach is but a poor, plodding, vulgar thing in the solitudes of the highway; and that the pirate is only a seedy, unfantastic "rough," when he is out of the pictures. Toward evening, the stage-coach came thundering into Hawkeye with a perfectly triumphant ostentation which was natural and proper, for Hawkey a was a pretty large town for interior Missouri.
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