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"It is as plain as daylight, and if I could only get some water now and then, I could follow it at a gallop. What is it, Carey?" "A smoke away off to the south-east," replied the soldier, who was lying flat on the top of the nearest sandhill. Bob at once dismounted and made his way up the hill, followed by George and the courier.
On the 30th we followed down the creek until it bore too much to the West, and so far as we could see shortly ran out into the sand. From a high sandhill the next morning we got an extensive view. To the East, the main body of a long salt-lake extending as far as the eye can see to the S.S.E. Bounding the lake on the East is a high sandstone tableland, with abrupt cliffs facing the lake.
Presently the track on which they were advancing I don't know whether it was originally a road or a trench, but it is a sort of chalky sandhill now brought them for a moment rather to our side of the hill into partial shelter. Each section that reached the place crouched down there for a moment. Spurts of shrapnel lashed past them whirling the white dust.
Holding her hand seemed to comfort him immensely. He explained that when we left the College and drove home he lived in Hampstead village it appeared to him as if we drove right through a sandhill it was perfectly black until he emerged again and through rocks and trees and solid obstacles, and when he was taken to his own room it made him giddy and almost frantic with the fear of falling, because going upstairs seemed to lift him thirty or forty feet above the rocks of his imaginary island.
The custom of kindling bonfires on Midsummer Eve prevailed all over Cumberland down to the second half of the eighteenth century. In Northumberland the custom seems to have lasted into the first quarter of the nineteenth century; the fires were lit in the villages and on the tops of high hills, and the people sported and danced round them. At Sandhill bonfires were kindled on the Eve of St.
In a battle of this kind the first-line trench is the operating theatre, hidden away from the people who have no business in it. From this isolated sandhill, one sees the whole plain of Flanders laid out like a green map at one's feet.
The point on which The Sandhill is situated I called after Lieutenant Gore, and the inlet, which we entered just before dark, Disaster Inlet, from a circumstance of what may be called a tragical nature which happened in it. Like all the other inlets, as we afterwards found, it had a bar scarcely passable at low-water for boats; but within there was a depth of two and three fathoms.
On the contrary, he snatched it away from me with avidity, and I retired with some credit, an excellent advertisement, and a guinea. These are one or two of the points of interest which show above the dead monotony of my life small enough, as you see, but even a sandhill looms large in Holland.
It was an incongruous assortment; some of the knights of Sir Malory; the River above the booms, with the brown logs; a plume of white steam against the dazzling blue sky; the mellow six-o'clock church bell to which he arose every morning; the snake-fence by the sandhill as it was in winter, with the wreaths of snow; and all through everything the feel of the woods he had seen at the picnic, their canopy of green so far above, their splashes of sunlight through the rifts, the friendly summer warmth of their air, their hot, spicy wood-smells wandering to and fro; their tall trunks, their undergrowth, with the green tunnels far through them, the flashes of their birds' wings, their green transparent shadows.
By the everlastin'! there ain't any air or sand like 'em anywheres else. I feel as if I never wanted to see a palm tree again as long as I live. I'd swap the whole of the South Pacific for one Trumet sandhill with a huckleberry bush on it. Well, as I started to say, I was settin' there lookin' out of the window when somebody tapped me on the shoulder. I looked up and 'twas her.
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