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The girls stared at each other and then burst out into a simultaneous laugh. But it was excitement, not mirth, that occasioned it. Before the wild echoes had rung through the vault, the hysterical girls were tearing at the hard walls, trying in vain to dislodge a nugget. "Oh, why did I leave that ax in the pannier!" wailed Polly.
Next he filled his coffee-pot with water, and set it on the coals. From his pannier he took his dishes and the flour and salt and pepper, arranging them all within reach, and at last laid some slices of bacon in the skillet. At this stage of the work a smothered cry, half yawn, half complaint, came from the tent. "Oh, hum! Is it morning?" inquired Berrie. "Morning!" replied her father.
"Why do the mules persist in walking on the very edge?" "That is a trick they get from carrying panniers. You are supposed to be a pannier, and the careful animal doesn't want to brush you off against the rocks. See this creature of mine; he has that hind hoof slipping over the precipice all the while.
Lifting the cover of the pannier, he exhibited the frightened but unharmed Job to his master. "Him all right," he said soothingly. "Let be. We got mak' new camp to-night. Can't tak' no dogs. Him come wit' women to-morrow." Ambrose did not believe him, of course; but if help were really so near, he felt it would be suicidal to provoke a conflict at this moment.
The packs were slipped from Choko and he, with the other mounts, were hobbled and left to graze on the buffalo grass in the clearing. The girls unpacked a pannier while Polly arranged her tackle and started for the top of the cliff whence fell the water. "Let me go with you, Poll, and watch?" asked Eleanor. "If you won't speak, and mind you don't slip and fall!"
They were clothed with scarlet robes lined with ermine, and ornamented with gold chains, and mounted on the most obstinate and inflexible mules in Tartarus. These were the judges. Each was provided with a pannier of choice cobnuts, which he cracked with great gravity, throwing the shells to the multitude, an infernal ceremony, there held emblematic of their profession.
They unslung the pannier and commenced to unpack the contents; the children gathered round with slowly returning confidence, and by twos and threes the remainder of the hosts returned from the upper-deck. "Why aren't they all wet if they've come from the bottom of the sea?" demanded Freckles the materialist. "Why isn't Father Christmas's brother wet?" They looked round in vain.
'Blanche is helping Mary arrange the Hoxton I mean her own drawing-room. Hector has brought a dog-cart to drive papa about in; Daisy is gone with Harry and Aubrey to the Grange for some camellias. 'And Ethel rushing to Cocksmoor! 'I can't help it, Tom, she said, humbly; 'I wish I could. 'What's this immense pannier you are carrying? 'It is quite light.
Suddenly she was interrupted in her fond thoughts by a female voice. 'Blind flower-girl, whither goest thou? There is no pannier under thine arm; hast thou sold all thy flowers? The person thus accosting Nydia was a lady of a handsome but a bold and unmaidenly countenance: it was Julia, the daughter of Diomed.
Besides that, as a part of the entertainment, there was set by us a large vessel of metheglin, with a pannier, in the one part of which were white olives, in the other black; two broad platters covered the vessel, on the brims of which were engraven Trimalchio's name, and the weight of the silver, with little bridges soldered together, and on them dormice strew'd over with honey and poppy: There were also piping-hot sausages on a silver gridiron, and under that large damsons, with the kernels of pomegranats.
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