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Updated: May 24, 2025
A tall, gaunt, loosely made man, without an ounce of superfluous flesh on his body, his face burned a dark brick color by constant exposure to the weather, red hair and beard turning grey, honest blue eyes that look you ever in the face, huge hands with wrist bones like the shank of a ham, and a voice that hurled his salutations across two fields, he suggested the moor rather than the drawing-room.
However, I do know that it was on this very beach where we now stand that a friend led me for the first time to think seriously of this matter more than a year ago." "Indeed who was it?" asked May eagerly. "My chum and old school-fellow, poor Charlie Brooke," returned Shank, in a strangely altered voice.
Fishhooks here, of native workmanship, were observed to have barbs like the European hooks: elsewhere the point of the hook is merely bent in towards the shank, to have the same effect in keeping on the fish as the barb. We slept near a village a short distance above the ford.
It's only the shank of the evening." "I have a little work to do. Some day I hope I may be able to set as good a dinner before you." "Better have a cigar." "No, thank you." And Fitzgerald liked him none the less for his firmness. So he went as far as the entrance with him. "Don't bother about calling a cab," said Breitmann. "It has stopped raining, and the walk will tone me up.
There seems no great modesty in the estimate which Mr. Moxon thus exhibits of his own superior powers, but we fear there is, at least, as much modesty as truth for really, so far from being "bound" within the narrow limit of the sonnet, it seems to us to be a world too wide For his shrunk shank. Ordinary sonneteers, as we have said, will spin a single thought through the fourteen lines.
"Anyway, we moons round in a kind of an unostentatious way, with the Kid still acting peevish and low in his mind, and me saying little things every now and then to chirk him up, until the shank of the evening arrives 'long about two A.M. Then we slips over into the yards below Riverside Drive, taking due care not to wake up no sleeping policeman on the way.
"Mag Robertson has flung hersel' doon the shank!" and immediately all was consternation. The engine keeper had just been in the act of signaling down to Walker, who was ready to ascend when he saw the flying figure dart forward and fling herself into the yawning abyss.
The vaquero was aware of all this, and therefore did not leave his hiding-place until he had firmly knotted one end of the long cord around the shank of the bird then slipping out at one side, he ran off to some distance before stopping. The condor, apparently relieved of his disagreeable company, made a sudden effort, and rose into the air, carrying the hide after him.
Well, now, I'm keen to save you an' Buck Tom if I can, and what I want you to understand is, that if you expect me to help you at a time when you stand considerable in need o' help, you'll have to do what I tell 'ee." "And what would you have me do?" asked Shank, with a troubled look. "Remain here till I come for 'ee, and when you meet me in company say nothin' about havin' met me before."
Charlie had hoped that Hunky Ben would have been able to stay with Shank till he should return from the old country, but found, to his regret, that that worthy was engaged to conduct still further into the great western wilderness a party of emigrants who wished to escape the evils of civilisation, and to set up a community of their own which should be founded on righteousness, justice, and temperance.
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