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He would stand there turning the hated shoes over between his hands. Then he would criticize them. "We must take more pains next winter." "Father forgets it's all up with us now," said the young master wearily. Then the old man would be silent and hobble out. But after a time he would be back again, fingering the boots and shoes, in order to discover defects in them.
It was only when approaching horsemen dipped for a little out of sight and the depressions swallowed them up that we realized the unevenness of the land. Camp was hardly made before our Mongol neighbors began to pay their formal calls. A picturesque fellow, blazing with color, would dash up to our tent at a full gallop, slide off and hobble his pony almost in a single motion.
Oh!" he howled, beginning to hop and hobble about the cage. "Next batter!" called out Arthurs. And so it went on until the most promising player in the cage came to bat. This was Graves, a light-haired fellow, tall, built like a wedge. He had more confidence than any player in the squad and showed up well in all departments of the game.
They were just beginning breakfast when the sound of hoofs was heard and Billy rode into the clearing on his own pony, with evident signs of perturbation on his ebony face. "What's up, Billy?" Mr. Linton asked sharply. "That feller pack-mare," Billy said briefly. "Broken hobbles clear out. Plenty!" He produced a hobble as he spoke, the broken leather telling its own tale. Mr.
"Oh no, sir not of outdoor things; especially just now when the apple-blooth is falling, and everything is so green." "But you have your indoor fears eh?" "Well yes, sir." "What of?" "I couldn't quite say." "The milk turning sour?" "No." "Life in general?" "Yes, sir." "Ah so have I, very often. This hobble of being alive is rather serious, don't you think so?" "It is now you put it that way."
This Umballa was supernaturally keen. What to do now? "Quick!" cried Ahmed. "Get the howdahs off the elephants." It was done. "Hobble them." It was immediately accomplished. "Into the bungalow, all of you. Mem-sahib, follow me!" "What are you going to do?" asked Bruce. "Hide her where none will dare to look," answered Ahmed. He seized Kathlyn by the hand and urged her to run.
An attempt was made to protect some of them by making awnings and thatched roofs of bushes and poles; but about seven o'clock ambulances and wagons loaded with wounded began again to arrive from the battle-line, and the whole hospital force turned its attention to them, leaving the suffering men in the grass to the care of the camp cooks and a few slightly wounded soldiers, who, although in pain themselves, could still hobble about carrying hard bread and water to their completely disabled and gasping comrades.
Would not one swear that this youngster had espoused some antiquated muse, who had sued out a divorce on account of impotence, from some superannuated sinner; and, having been p d by her former spouse, has got the gout in her decrepit age, which makes her hobble so damnably?" This was the man who would reform a nation sinking into barbarity.
Ishizaka relates how an underling official required a Korean of education to rewrite a notice of change of residence six times because he omitted a dot in one of those atrocious Chinese characters, which are a hobble on the development of Japan. This last opinion is mine, not the doctor's.
"So if we sit tight if we can sit tight " McNeil lay down again "they will take us out. Meanwhile we have nine days." They spent three more days in the cave. McNeil was on his feet and impatient to leave before Ashe was able to hobble well enough to travel. Though Ross and McNeil took turns at hunting and guard duty, they saw no signs that the tribesmen were tracking them.
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