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After a long trudge from home, commenced before dawn, and a weary haggling over the most worthless of "coppers" during the heat of the day, the poor folk are quite ready for a quiet resting-time, with something to distract their minds and fill them with thoughts for the homeward way.
"May there be joy in the rooms, and under the green boughs," said the old ruler of the year. In a few weeks he had become a very old man, with hair as white as snow. "My resting-time draws near; the young pair of the year will soon claim my crown and sceptre." "But the night is still thine," said the angel of Christmas, "for power, but not for rest. Let the snow lie warmly upon the tender seed.
I pitied the poor animals, which would be compelled to recross the bridge, so heartily, that, after they are gone, I devoted a part of my resting-time to collecting stones and filling up the holes, a business which scarcely occupied me a quarter of an hour. It is interesting to notice how the horses know by instinct the dangerous spots in the stony wastes, and in the moors and swamps.
There was activity and movement everywhere, but he could co-ordinate nothing, he was simply bewildered. Towards evening there was another resting-time, and each man gladly threw himself full length on the grass. For a moment there was a silence, then Tom heard a sound which gave him a sickening sensation; he felt a sinking, too, at the pit of his stomach: it was the boom, boom, boom of guns.
"We're just in port." Accordingly, in another quarter of an hour, a calm fell upon us all; and about midnight the voyage ended. I was sorry: yes, I was sorry. My resting-time was past; my difficulties my stringent difficulties recommenced.
But his active brain soon put to flight this hobgoblin; he thought of the bit of a blue newspaper the Otsego Herald printed in Cooperstown by the father of his comrade. So they planned to use the resting-time of the press for the printing of this new book, of which, however, only a few chapters were put in type.
She sees somehow how do women divine these things? that there is a little shadow of unrest over me, and she tells me all the comforting things that I dare not say to myself that it is only that the book took more out of me than I knew, and that the resting-time is not over yet; but that I shall soon settle down again.
These necklaces are never taken off, so at night, or resting-time, the wearer on lying down places a block of wood or stone beneath his head, to prevent the wire from galling. This concession of the chief was given under the proviso that Kannina would not object, which, strange to say, he promised not to do; and hopes were entertained of an early departure.
The effect of the rain, however, was not so agreeable, for, being perfectly destitute of shelter, we were speedily wet to the skin; and the remainder of our resting-time was rendered thereby the reverse of comfortable.
We had now proceeded a distance of thirty-five miles, and began to consider ourselves beyond the danger of pursuit. The remainder of the retreat was accordingly conducted with more leisure; our next march carrying us no farther than to Nottingham, where we remained during an entire day, for the purpose of resting the troops. It cannot, however, be said that this resting-time was spent in idleness.
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