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'Ware!" said her short bark, with unmistakable vehemence. As Finn drew back, wonderingly, a short black snake rose between him and the log, hissed angrily at the hounds once, and then darted away round the log's butt end. Jess made some gruff remarks in her throat which could not well be translated into our tongue; but they sufficed to teach Finn a good deal.
"Between us and the river now." Rynch saw that glittering swoop through the air, marked the landing of a ball near the water's edge. "Might be trying to box us in. But that's not going to work. See ahead there where that log's caught between two rocks? Run out on that when we reach there and take to the water.
Let him climb aboard or wade ashore!" Another cry came down the wind: "Breakers ahead!" "Where away?" "Not a log's length off her port fore-foot!" We had groped our slippery way forward, and were now bailing with the frenzy of despair, when we heard the mate's terrified cry, from far aft: "Stop that dashed bailing, or we shall be aground!"
How doth one win such honours and acclaim and reach the high estate that thou dost laud? "The minstrel gazed a little space into the Yule log's flame, and stroked his long hoar beard. Then made he answer: "'Some win their spurs and earn the royal accolade because the blood of dragons stains their hands. From mighty combat with these terrors they come victorious to their king's reward.
As he lowered one arm and shoulder into the water, it seemed to Ida that the log rolled a little, and when he raised himself again, with the water dripping from him, she called out to warn him. "The log's not safe," she said. It was not evident that Weston heard her through the roar of the short rapid above the fall, for he lowered himself once more.
"Mit apple tart and cream: the Messman can't be well. Pills says its squando-mania. No, I don't think I want to know any more. I suppose the log's written up?" "It is. Now for the boiled beef, and this afternoon Little Bright-eyes is going to get his head down and have a nice sleep." The speaker prepared to depart. "Hold on," said the Navigator. "I'm coming with you.
Let him climb aboard or wade ashore!" Another cry came down the wind: "Breakers ahead!" "Where away?" "Not a log's length off her port fore-foot!" We had groped our slippery way forward, and were now bailing with the frenzy of despair, when we heard the mate's terrified cry, from far aft: "Stop that dashed bailing, or we shall be aground!"
One of their villages was seventeen miles below Pittsburg: it was called Log's Town, and was visited by Croghan, in 1765. Another, named Lowertown, also visited by the same traveler, stood just below the mouth of the Scioto. It was subsequently carried away by a great flood in that river, which overflowed the site of the town, and compelled the Indians to escape in their canoes.
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