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A shot which I took at some 250 yards was more to relieve ourselves by making a noise than with any hopes of bringing down one of the light-heeled little creatures, for their bounding powers put all correctness of aim at that range out of the question.
"All hands make sail." The boatswain piped, the light-heeled topsmen sped up the rathines and lay out the yards, while all on deck looked up as usual to see them work. Out bellied sail after sail aloft; the ship came curtseying round to the southward, spread her snowy pinions high and wide, and went like a bird over the wrinkled sea homeward bound.
"She must be a fast craft to come up with him. They say nothing can catch him." "What, then, you learnt who your friend was?" said the stranger. "Oh, yes! we heard a good deal about him in Zante. He is the very terror of all honest, quiet-going traders in those parts." "And who is this formidable, light-heeled gentleman, may I ask?" said the stranger.
She was certainly a beautiful model of a ship far and away the prettiest that I had ever seen when I first stepped on board her while her speed, especially in light winds and tolerably smooth water, was such as to fill us all, fore and aft, with the most extravagant hopes of success against the light-heeled slave clippers whose business it was ours to suppress.
"What?" "Come on, or we won't get home until morning." And on the crest of her insouciance she thrust out her arm, giving the shining white perambulator a running push from the rear, so that it went rolling lightly from her and with a perfect gear action down the slight incline of sidewalk. They were after it at a bound, light-heeled and full of laughter. "Whoops, my dear!" "Whoa!"
The Nymphs next produced a pair of shoes, or slippers, or sandals, with a nice little pair of wings at the heel of each. "Put them on, Perseus," said Quicksilver. "You will find yourself as light-heeled as you can desire for the remainder of our journey." So Perseus proceeded to put one of the slippers on, while he laid the other on the ground by his side.
"It can't be it mustn't be," exclaimed his father angrily; "it's perfectly preposterous. We shall be the talk and the jest of the whole county. It will do harm, too, to the working-classes. Why, you'll have all the idle vagabonds there. Some light-fingered and light-heeled poacher will win your sovereign you'll be the laughing-stock of all the country round, and so shall I too.
Don't go near her or play any tricks to hurt her. Lay off for good. If you don't well, you'll pay heavy. I'll be on the job personal to collect." Clay swung away and strode down the street, light-heeled and lithe, the sap of vital youth in every rippling muscle. "Slim" Jim watched him, snarling hatred.
The Nymphs next produced a pair of shoes or slippers or sandals, with a nice little pair of wings at the heel of each. "Put them on, Perseus," said Quicksilver. "You will find yourself as light-heeled as you can desire for the remainder of our journey." So Perseus proceeded to put one of the slippers on, while he laid the other on the ground by his side.
However, there was no indication that any such light-heeled gentry were abroad that night, and the travellers reached the little hostelry whither they were bound without any adventure. Here they were evidently expected. The host came out with an air of great respect, and took their horses.
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