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The sort of rifle practice called "driving the nail," by which this match was to be decided, was, and we believe still is, common among the hunters of the far west. It consisted in this: an ordinary large-headed nail was driven a short way into a plank or a tree, and the hunters, standing at a distance of fifty yards or so, fired at it until they succeeded in driving it home.
"`Go an' study Greek, said the newly-elected Professor of Fun; a suggestion which was received with a shout of derisive laughter. "`I should like to have some of old Maggie's apples for supper, said I. "`But who's to crib them? asked a large-headed boy, whose appearance reminded one of a tadpole. "`Little Spinks, of course, said I. `Come, be off and be sure that you take good ones.
Mr Tapley retired for that purpose, and immediately returned with their large-headed host in safe convoy. 'Pray, landlord! said Martin, 'who is that gentleman who passed just now, and whom you were looking after?
On which the two ladies looked very kindly at each other and went to that apartment hand in hand. Becky admired little Matilda, who was not quite four years old, as the most charming little love in the world; and the boy, a little fellow of two years pale, heavy-eyed, and large-headed she pronounced to be a perfect prodigy in point of size, intelligence, and beauty.
Claypole administered a kick to Oliver, and entered the shop with a dignified air, which did him great credit. It is difficult for a large-headed, small-eyed youth, of lumbering make and heavy countenance, to look dignified under any circumstances; but it is more especially so, when superadded to these personal attractions are a red nose and yellow smalls.
If we capture one of them with our butterfly-net he will be found to bear a general resemblance to the portrait here indicated a slender-legged, proportionably large-headed beetle, with formidable jaws capable of wide extension, and re-enforced by an insatiate carnivorous hunger inherited from his former estate.
Blocking the end of the street, in stern contrast, was the huge Clarendon Mill with its sinister brick pillars running up the six stories between the glass. Here likewise the sidewalks overflowed with children, large-headed, with great, lustrous eyes, mute, appealing, the eyes of cattle. Unlike American children, they never seemed to be playing.
Now, down to a moment ago, we had never been able to understand for what possible purpose a great number of odd, lazy, large-headed men, whom one is in the habit of meeting here, and there, and everywhere, could ever have been created. We see it all, now.
The man, big in build, large-headed, wore an old-fashioned blue swallow-tailed coat with brass buttons, a stock, and coonskin hat, though it was summer, and the thumping of William Wetherell's heart told him that this was Jethro Bass. He nodded briefly at Moses Hatch, who greeted him with genial obsequiousness. "Legislatur' through?" shouted Moses. The great man shook his head and drove on.
In fact, she was a large-headed, large-eyed, long-eyelashed, slender-necked, slightly developed young woman; looking almost like a child at an age when many of the girls had reached their full stature and proportions. In her studies she was so far in advance of her different classes that there was always a wide gap between her and the second scholar.
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