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And I had ordered a hammock to be fixed by silken ropes from the four corners at the top, to break the jolts when a servant carried me before him on horseback, as I sometimes desired; and would often sleep in my hammock, while we were upon the road.
Sometimes they went perfectly smoothly along without jolts or jerks, and sometimes on the contrary, the plateau would reel and roll like a ship in a storm, coasting past abysses in which fragments of the mountain were falling, tearing up trees by the roots, and leveling, as if with the keen edge of an immense scythe, every projection of the declivity.
The calesero picks his way carefully; the carriage tips, jolts, and tumbles; the centre of gravity appears to be nowhere. The breeze dies away; the vertical sun seems to pin us through the head; we get drowsy, and dream of an uneasy sea of stones, whose harsh waves induce headache, if not seasickness.
There is no lack of midges and tiny dung-beetles Aphodiinæ which might take possession of it. It is only prudent to be distrustful. So the ball is introduced into the pit, half in and half out of the mouth of the burrow. The mother, below, clasps and pulls; the father, above, moderates the jolts and prevents it from rolling. All goes well.
"It regularly jolts me, Professor," he said, "t' see th' genuine stuff, that's good t' make gold dollars out of, slung around this way. A front door of solid gold is a huckleberry above Jay Gould's biggest persimmon; an' as t' Solomon, these fellows just lay Solomon out cold regularly down th' old man an' sit on him.
Spirit is what counts, and the Yankees haven't got it, I was made to-day a Captain of Cavalry under Colonel Rives. I ride a great, raw-boned horse like an elephant. He jolts me until I am sore, not quite as easy as my thoroughbred, Jefferson. Tell Jinny to care for him, and have him ready when we march into St. Louis." "COWSKIN PRAIRIE, 9th July.
And the rusk did a somersault. . . ." "But he didn't haunt the door," gurgled Joan. "He got roped in. He fell an easy victim to the snag parade and women fainted and men wept when the man of great possessions and the pointed woman took the floor. . . ." "Pointed?" murmured Vane. "All jolts and bumps," explained the girl. "Her knees were like steel castings.
From this time their course was a continual ascent, as was soon evident in the strain it made on the bullocks to drag along the cumbrous wagon. Their yoke creaked, they breathed heavily, and the muscles of their houghs were stretched as if they would burst. The planks of the vehicle groaned at the unexpected jolts, which Ayrton with all his skill could not prevent.
He's down at the depot now, straightening out our baggage. Now I want to say this before he gets here. He's been out with me just four days. Those four days have been a revelation, an eye-opener, and a series of rude jolts.
"You'll git used to it," consoled Uncle Bill, "you'll learn to like it when you're down there makin' that there 'juice. I mind the time I went to North Dakoty on a visit I longed for one of these hills to climb to rest myself. The first day they set me out on the level, I ran away it took four men to head me off." "We found where we kin develop 250,000 jolts," Porcupine Jim announced.
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