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"What were you doing in his room at Fornside?" "Tush, maybe I was only seeking that fine father of thine. Let go your hod, do you hear? Let go, or I'll I'll " Rotha had dropped the woman's dress and grasped her shoulders. In another instant the slight pale-faced girl had pulled this brawny woman to her knees. They were close to the parapet of the bridge, and it was but a few inches high.
The man carrying the hod to the top of the walls that rankly grow and grow as from his life's blood, will only lay down his load when he feels the mortal glare of the sun blaze in upon heart and brain; the plethoric millionaire for whom he toils will plot and plan in his office till he swoons at the desk; the trembling beast must stagger forward while the flame-faced tormentor on the box has strength to lash him on; in all those vast palaces of commerce there are ceaseless sale and purchase, packing and unpacking, lifting up and laying down, arriving and departing loads; in thousands of shops is the unspared and unsparing weariness of selling; in the street, filled by the hurry and suffering of tens of thousands, is the weariness of buying.
This apparent coincidence, the author adds, 'may be but imagination; but it looks like a reality. It must be admitted, that if the Robyn Hod, or Robert Hood, of the Exchequer records be not Robin Hood the outlaw, then all these singular agreements of names, of dates, and of circumstances, will make together a far greater marvel than any that is to be found in the ballad-story itself, which some sceptics would require us to disbelieve.
"Wake up, wake up, m'shoor!" he whispered, excitedly. "The wolves are coming. I can hear them on the snow." The white man was up in a twinkling, but by that time the porcupine hod settled himself in a crotch, out of reach of the smoke, and the woods were silent again. The two listened with all their ears, but there was not a sound to be heard. "You must have been dreaming, Louis."
She wore a plaid domestic gingham gown; she had several stuff ones, but she declared she never put one of them on for any thing less than "meetin." She had a black satin Methodist bonnet, very much the shape of a coal hod, and the color of her own complexion, only there was a slight shade of blue in it.
On their backs, then? No. In their claws? Oh, no, their feet were far too feeble for bearing loads. Do you remember what Corbie used for a berry-pail when he went out to pick fruit? Why, of course! the hod of the swallow mason is none other than his mouth, and it holds as much as half a thimbleful.
I didn't dare open my mouth. I didn't dare speak even one night when she said, "He's all we have, Billy just one." I gripped her hand and sat staring into the little coal hod fireplace which we didn't light more than once a month now. Even as I watched the flames I saw them licking up pennies. Just one! And I too wanted a houseful like Dick.
My weakness consists in not having a discriminating eye for the incidental for the externals no eye for the hod of the rag-picker or the fine linen of the next man. Next man that's it. I have met so many men, he pursued, with momentary sadness 'met them too with a certain certain impact, let us say; like this fellow, for instance and in each case all I could see was merely the human being.
"Av ye don't fergit ut, ye moight fetch back a gallon jug av Hod Burrage's embalmin' flooid, f'r me inwards is that petrified be th' grub we've been havin' av late, they moight mishtake ut f'r rale liquor. Good-by, an' good luck 'tis toime to roll in." The sledding was good on the tote-road.
"Mother, we've not lived over well, you and I; but maybe God would forgive us, after all." "Hod thy tongue, my lad; do, now, do." Mrs. Garth fumbled with the bedclothes, and tucked them about the sufferer. Her son turned his face full upon hers, and their eyes met. "Dunnet look at me like that," she said, trying to escape his gaze.
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