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Updated: June 24, 2025
Here is the address in Allahabad, where the lady is to wait for her conductors. She seems not to wish me to come down. I will be at the bungalow, then, on your arrival! I will give you a letter for her," said Hawke. Ram Lal's eyes gleamed in anticipation of the fat pickings of the Mem-Sahib. He pondered a moment over the case.
I should think, however, that he manages to live here; for wherever there are English fools, there are fine pickings for an English rogue." "Ay," said I, "but are there enough fools here, to feed the rogues?"
Vultures are as uncanny-looking as they are painted, and to see them waiting on the trees near the erections where Parsees put out their dead to be devoured, is not a pleasant sight. They also sit and watch near the Hindu burning-grounds, which suggests the uncomfortable idea that pickings are to be had there also.
"He seems to have stuck to Benson pretty closely, no doubt with the object of fleecing him, and you think he's not altogether ruined yet." "If what he told me is correct, there are still some pickings left on him." "I don't suppose the explanation is that Clarke has some conscience and feels he has robbed him enough." Harding laughed.
Besides, you've no idea what pickings there are about a wreck copper, lead, rigging, anchors, chains, even the crockery, Loudon." "You seem to me to forget one trifle," said I. "Before you pick that wreck, you've got to buy her, and how much will she cost?" "One hundred dollars," replied Jim, with the promptitude of an automaton. "How on earth do you guess that?" I cried.
Ellwell had the reputation with the broker and his companions, of being "a good woman" and a "good wife." And Ellwell considered that he had redeemed his note to propriety in marrying and having children, who become hampering things when a man is in a tight place. The servants gossiped, were insolent at times, but in such a household there were many pickings.
Who, when she had sent to an old woman of the village who lived discontentedly on such pickings as she could induce her neighbours to leave her, and who had constantly profited by the liberality of this well-established mistress, a ticket for a large tea, and was informed by some officious person that the husband also had procured a ticket at her expense, said, "He's a poor old crab-stick.
The Mexicans drew back, because other Texan rifles, weapons that they had learned to dread, were raised. A second body of horsemen charged from a different angle, and Ned distinctly saw Urrea at their head. He fired, but the bullet missed the partisan leader and brought down another man behind him. "There are good pickings here," said Davy Crockett, "but they'll soon be too many for us.
As, however, we were looking for the spot where we had left the other, a huge condor rose into the air, followed by two or three others. "Ah! you'll not find much beyond his bones, depend on that," said Tom. "These birds don't leave pickings for anybody else." Such being the case, we agreed that it was not worth while to climb up so far, as we were in a hurry to get back to the rock to breakfast.
"Well, well," said the innkeeper, "have it thine own way. Methinks the ill hath outrun the omen, for there will be naught for man or beast shortly but fine pickings for thy three crows." The little man scowled at him: Dickon came up. "What's to do?" he said curtly.
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