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Updated: June 9, 2025
The strange "vandyked" crozier-like stone objects of schist or shale from Portugal were possibly armes d'apparat, or heads of staves of dignity. There is a sample in the American room at the British Museum, uninscribed.
"One of those shots you fired at the lamp went wild, or glanced off something, an' " Rathburn lifted his brows significantly. "Killed somebody!" cried the other. He staggered back just as a rattle of falling stones signified that horsemen were in the shale on the slope to eastward. For the space of several seconds Rathburn and his captive looked into each other's eyes.
The engineer explained the cause of the accident; the blue shale, he said, through which the excavation passed at that point, was considered so hard and firm, as to render it unnecessary to build the invert very strong there. But shale is always a deceptive material. Subjected to the influence of the atmosphere, it gives but a treacherous support.
"About eight days," he said soberly. The next morning we descended from Madulce abruptly by a dirt trail, almost perpendicular until we slid into a cañon of sage-brush and quail, of mescale cactus and the fierce dry heat of sun-baked shale. "Is it any hotter than this on the desert?" we inquired. Wes looked on us with pity. "This is plumb arctic," said he.
There were six or seven other buildings near the large stone building where we took our meals, so arranged that they made a short street, the upper row being built against a cliff of rock and shale, the other row being placed halfway between this row and the river. These buildings were all of rock, of which there was no lack, plastered with adobe, or mud.
We may sometimes follow a bed of limestone, shale, or sandstone, for a distance of many hundred yards continuously; but we generally find at length that each individual stratum thins out, and allows the beds which were previously above and below it to meet.
"Like enough each to t' other," old Oth used to mutter; "on'y dem birds done forgot to eat, an' Mars' Gurney neber will, gorry knows dat!" "If you could, Captain McKinstry," it was the old man who spoke now, with a sort of whiffle through his teeth, "if you could? A chip of shale next to this you brought this evening would satisfy me.
Little Shale was also well represented, but he always felt that he was in closer touch with the miners on these occasions, when he met them on their own ground.
And it did not take long for the experienced eyes of the cow punchers to discover where earth and shale from above had been recently dislodged and allowed to slide down to cover what must have been the same sort of natural opening into the side of the wall as that at the far end, closed by a fence of trees. This was to keep the cattle in without men being needed to ride herd.
"I always leave that sort of thing to the busybodies who enjoy it." "What a good idea!" said Green. "Do you know I never thought of that?" "Tell me about the cricket match!" Juliet said, intervening. "Who is playing?" He gave her a glance of quizzical understanding. "Oh, that's a village affair too Little Shale versus Fairharbour, most of them fisher-lads, all of them sports.
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