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One soon felt one's attention becoming concentrated, however, upon a great arched window cut in the form of a horseshoe, through which one could look down what was very much like the nave of a church running straight back into the depths of the hill.
That Pteraspis and shark were his cousins, great-uncles, or grandfathers, in no way troubled him, but that either or both of them should be older than evolution itself seemed to him perplexing; nor could he at all simplify the problem by taking the sudden back-somersault into Quincy Bay in search of the fascinating creature he had called a horseshoe, whose huge dome of shell and sharp spur of tail had so alarmed him as a child.
In their journeys after beaver the Ashley party had been able to go into this gorge and the two following ones, Horseshoe and Kingfisher, and had doubtless trapped in them. Here were many beaver, and Ashley drew the inference that as many existed below in the deeper canyon.
The lucky horseshoe, nailed to the threshold, glittered in the light of the hearth, which threw blood-red streaks between the legs of the table, across the door and beyond it on to the snow. 'I wonder whether they will ever return to their families? he thought, and: 'How queer it is that one should meet people like that. He was sorry for them. The captain touched his arm and asked the way.
'The Bight of Leogane is a horseshoe Cape St Nicholas is the caulker on the northern heel Cape Tiberoon, the ditto on the south Port au Prince is the tip at the toe towards the east Conaives, Leogane, Petit Trouve, &c. &c. &c. are the nails, and the Island of Gonave is the frog. Now every human being who knows that a horse has four legs and a tail of course this includes all the human race, excepting tailors and sailors must understand this at once; it is palpable and plain, although no man could have put it so perspicuously, excepting my friend William Cobbettt or myself.
"I'll ask her," said Alice Weston. "But, Alice " And Mrs. Weston smiled. Alice had already gone to look for Mrs. Adams. Lorry, who had heard, scowled at a veranda post. He had thought of that trip to the Horseshoe Range long before it had been mentioned by his father. Wimmin made him tired, he told the unoffending post. Shortly afterward Alice appeared. She had cajoled Mrs.
"Shorty, why are our two claims here like the Panama Canal?" "What's the answer?" "Well, the eastern entrance of the Panama Canal is west of the western entrance, that's all." "Go on," Shorty said. "I ain't seen the joke yet." "In short, Shorty, you staked our two claims on a big horseshoe bend." Shorty set the gold pan down in the snow and stood up. "Go on," he repeated.
"'Let me hold your hand and see if you have a fever. "'No, no, no! and she sought to hide her hands under the cover; but my uncle was a resolute man, and he seized her hand and drew it from beneath the cover, and behold, a horseshoe was nailed unto it. On each hand and each foot there was nailed a shoe which the smith at the trial swore he had put on the gray mare the night before."
Now they got into their boat with the horseshoe, and when the dawn was come they were aware of the smoke of the Earl's town and the bells of the Kirk that beat.
At the word "go!" they scuttled away, and hunted eagerly, now and then stooping to pick up a pin from the floor, or reaching up to get a horseshoe from the mantelpiece. The rooms had been literally sown with the small objects; the clovers and horseshoes being cut from pasteboard and painted, and the black cats being tiny china, wooden, or bronze affairs.
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