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We had just started to move on again, and I felt so secure, after all he had told me about the orderly way things were kept, that I let go my guide's anorak, which I had been holding. But that was foolish of me. Smack! I went down at full length. I had trodden on something round something that brought me down. As I fell, I caught hold of something also round and I lay convulsively clutching it.
The Superintendent was spending the precious hours of one of his rare visits at home in painful plodding through his correspondence. For it was part of the sacrifice his work demanded, and which he cheerfully made, that he should forsake home and wife and children for his work's sake. The Assembly's Convener found him in the midst of an orderly confusion of papers of different sorts.
He was answered a moment later, for an orderly arrived with instructions to the air service boys to report at their hangars at once. There they were told something of the impending attack the first public mention of it, though more than one had guessed something unusual was in the air from the tenseness of the last few days.
Then he read aloud to Hal and Chester: "General Emil Tromp was struck down by a German shell at the front this afternoon. He died almost instantly." "I am sure I may depend upon you to say nothing of what you have heard to-day," he said quietly. "You may, sir," said Hal and Chester in one breath. General Joffre tapped the bell on his desk. An orderly entered and came to a salute.
I had passed this necessary apprenticeship, and now had actually got my leave. The morning after getting my instructions I rose early, and packed the few things I was going to take with me. Very few things they were, too. Only a pack and a haversack, and both contained nothing but souvenirs. I decided to go to the station via the orderly room, so that I could do both in one journey.
Pryor in bringing in the meat of four Elk which he had dryed. at 1 P. M the party returned with the meat. it had been so illy dryed that we feared it would not keep. we therefore directed it to be cut thinner and redryed over a fire this evening, as we purpose setting out early in the morning. the deerskins which we have had cased for the purpose of containing our dryed meat are not themselves sufficiently dryed for that purpose, we directed them to be dryed by the fire also. the weather has been so damp that there was no possibility of pounding the meat as I wished. we were visited today by several parties of the natives as usual; they behaved themselves in a very orderly manner.
The rush of the women on to the rolls; the interest taken by them in the elections; the peaceable and orderly character of the contests; and the Liberal majority returned at two successive General Elections are all matters of New Zealand history. Most of the women voters show as yet no disposition to follow the clergy in assailing the national system of free, secular, and compulsory education.
There did seem to be a good deal of confusion in the orderly household, and the very air of the hall seemed to be pervaded with a singular subdued excitement; voices of suppressed loudness issued from the front parlor and as Ester knocked she heard a half scream from Mrs. Ried, mingled with cries of "Don't let her in."
Another point in his wood-cutting that I always admired was that, when the more amusing part of the operation which is cutting the tree down was over, he invariably took personally his full share of the comparatively uninteresting work of sawing up the trunk, and disposing in an orderly manner of the branches.
His face assumed, in spite of himself, an expression of almost stupid joy, and he waited with impatience until the fragment of the mare given to his orderly was cooked. The smell of the roasting flesh increased his hunger, and his hunger silenced his heart, his courage, and his love. He looked, without anger, at the results of the pillage of his carriage.
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