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Yet there is enjoyment in it when the khan is tolerably free from fleas and "such small deer," and one is accustomed "to roughing it," and blessed with a good appetite and digestion. Yet, truth to tell, it is more picturesque than pleasant at the best more gratifying to the eye than to the other senses, especially to those of smell and hearing.
These armies carried out the ideas the fat man got for them from the lean and hungry thinkers. They gloried in hardship. They rather enjoyed roughing it, and took delight in privation.
Besides, you must have had about enough of roughing it, and will be anxious to turn your faces towards civilisation. So after you have rested another couple of days I think that we had better start for Quilimane, which, barring accidents, is about three months' march from here." Shortly afterwards they started accordingly, but with the details of their march we need not concern ourselves.
From this you can obtain finer lessons and higher morals than from any story you will read all your life long of course excepting these hundred glorious Droll Tales namely, that never could adventure of this sort have happened to the impaired and ruined constitutions of court rascals, rich people and others who dig their graves with their teeth by over-eating and drinking many wines that impair the implements of happiness; which said over-fed people were lolling luxuriously in costly draperies and on feather beds, while the Sieur de Bonne-Chose was roughing it.
The first two nights he secured lodgings at a farm-house; on the third night he was regarded as a suspicious character, and obtained reluctant permission to stow himself in a hay-loft, where he was so happy at roughing it and being uncomfortable that he could scarcely close an eye.
It was exactly the surveillance of one of his said burghers I wished to avoid; but there seemed no possibility of getting rid of Dietrich, who evidently preferred his comfortable quarters at the hotel to roughing it in the laager. I was exceedingly disappointed, and also somewhat indignant with Mr.
The teacher had marked on the dark face of the rock with a species of chalk, all the letters large and small of the alphabet. They were well drawn, for the parson, like others in the settlement, was a man of education, though his many years of roughing it had greatly rusted his book knowledge.
A little while before she had seemed almost on the verge of a collapse, and Bessie had been afraid that her chum, unused to hardships of any sort, and to roughing it, as country girls almost all learn to do from the time they are very small, was going to break down.
The months of June, July, and August are generally considered the best months for crossing. The scenery in and around these passes is of the most sublime description. By the route I took, seventeen marches brought me to the snow. Here our "roughing" commenced, the Peharrees, or hill men, of our side of the snow, having a most religious horror of the great snowy range.
You ought to know better, the umpire said, 'keep out. 'Baker, that man Larson must go off. 'Rubbish, said the umpire, 'they were both roughing it. 'Look here, Baker, that's rot and you know it. It was a deliberate and beastly trick. Put him off! 'He stays on! said the umpire, and he stuck to it, I'll give him credit for that. It was old Maitland that saved the day. He came up smiling.
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