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The wind cut like swords. Then came snow." Tisdale looked off with his far-sighted gaze through the open door. Every face was turned to him, but no one hurried him. It was a time when silence spoke. "I came on Weatherbee's dogs in a small ravine," he said. "They had broken through thin ice in an overflow, and the sled had mired in muck.
Then he extended his hands and almost gave a cry so great was his amazement. He had encountered an unmistakable tree trunk! He was on land not dry land for the boy was mired to the knees in sticky mud, but nevertheless land. Land in midocean. Hardly had he recovered from his first shock of surprise when he heard a voice exclaim: "Can anyone tell me am I awake or dreaming in my bunk?"
The earth was softer there, and she mired in places almost to her knees. At the dam, the water was tearing around each end in a mad race, carrying earth and everything before it. The mill side was lower than the street. The current was so broad and deep she could not see where the sluice was.
He was proud of his faculty of organization what we call bundobust. Twenty-two miles out of Dalhousie it began to rain not a mere hill-shower, but a good, tepid monsoonish downpour. Golightly bustled on, wishing that he had brought an umbrella. The dust on the roads turned into mud, and the pony mired a good deal. So did Golightly's khaki gaiters.
"Boys," said he, throwing one leg over the horn of the saddle; "I didn't get there. I I mired down!" Later, he gave us some interesting details. It transpired that he had met his sweetheart, after Sabbath-school, and had sat beside her during the regular service; after church he had accepted a warm invitation from Mrs. Swiggart to join the family circle at dinner.
We'll travel light just our provisions and a valise containing our wedding garments." "What will you do if you get mired twenty miles from a human being?" "But we won't. I'm a good driver and I haven't nerves but I have nerve. Besides, you forget that we'll have an Indian guide with us."
My mired boots played havoc with the neatly sanded floor; but the old woman dusted a chair for me as carefully as if I had worn robes of state, and set it on the other side of the hearth. Then she put the kettle to boil, and unhitching a cup from the dresser, took a key from it, and opened a small cupboard between the fireplace and the wall.
Day after day the rain clouds sailed in over the northern hills and deluged the flat little town with water, till the frogs sang in every street, till the main street mired down every team that drove into it.
But you will soon come to a swollen stream that flows into the river; and you cannot get across that, for the banks are very high and steep," replied Deck. The captain continued on his way at a slow walk, for the horses mired in the soft soil, keeping his gaze fixed on the opposite shore.
After the battle, or rather the disorderly rout, he was one of those who was mired in the swamps. He left his horse there, and with a few others tried to make his way to Detroit.
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