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Updated: June 6, 2025
"And yet I hear you complain that Parliament has legislated more than is good for trade, and speak in a manner of the proceedings at home, that, you will excuse me for saying, would better become a Hollander than a subject of the crown." "Have I not told you, that the horse will run faster without a rider, than with a pack-saddle on his back?
Instead of that, a small, iron fist shot upward and Quade's head went back as if broken from his neck. FitzHugh sprang a step backward, and in the movement his heel caught the edge of a pack-saddle. He stumbled, almost fell, and before he could recover himself Quade was at him again. This time there was something in the red brute's hand.
Before George could begin work on his letter the officer of the day came in. He shook hands with the new-comer, to whom he had been introduced on the occasion of the boy's first visit to the fort, and was told by the colonel to put the deserters into the guard-house, to show George where to stake out his horse and mule, and to see that he had somebody to help him bring in his pack-saddle.
"It might easily be a she-ass's," observed the curate. "It is all the same," said the servant; "that is not the point; but whether it is or is not a pack-saddle, as your worships say."
He balanced tentatively for a moment, then shook his head. A pack-saddle was substituted. "It is hard," he said, "young enough, and yet like a useless bale of goods." Twenty hours he had endured, and yet had twelve to go thirty-two hours for a man without legs. This will show of what some Serbs are made.
The country seems very deficient of permanent water, although I believe plenty could be procured by sinking. Barometer 28.46; thermometer 63 degrees at 5 p.m.; latitude 26 degrees 23 minutes 39 seconds South. Left a pack-saddle frame and two pack-bags hanging on a tree. 20th. Then following up a large brook for about five miles North-East, we camped at a small water-hole in the brook.
Timid citizens in breezy costumes about to blow out the candle made haste to do so, and peered goggle-eyed round the edges of the drawn-down blind. "What's to do? It's the lads of the Free Trade hundreds o' them, all armed, and never a load pony amang them. Every man on his horse and none led! Not a pack-saddle to be seen. Will they never go by? It's no canny, I declare!
The donkey is sandwiched between two long wooden troughs suspended to a rude pack-saddle, and each trough accommodates six jars, each holding about two gallons of water; one can readily imagine the swarms of these novel and primitive conveyances required to supply a population of thirty- five thousand people.
When the lasso had all been thus prepared and eaten, the broad girth which had served so well in holding the pack-saddle on the mule's back, was cleaned, cooked, and eaten. These substitutes for jerk sustained us very well till we again arrived at the fort. Another consultation was now held, and the question was what shall we do now?
No words of his could have expressed it better. The Padre sprang from his saddle with the lightness of a man of half his years, and his eyes rested on the pack-saddle on Buck's second horse. "For the folks?" he inquired. "Guess so. That's the last of the flour." For a moment a shadow passed across the Padre's face. Then it as suddenly brightened.
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