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Updated: May 17, 2025
Martin had been quite certain that necrosis of his shinbone had set in from the roots of the amazing colony he elected to cultivate in that locality. But Charmian had escaped. Out of her long immunity had been bred contempt for the rest of us. Her ego was flattered to such an extent that one day she shyly informed me that it was all a matter of pureness of blood.
The maddened animal had struck him on the shinbone, and wounded him. The servants were thus obliged to carry the moaning greybeard back to his castle as speedily and carefully as possible. The surgeon had a sad time of it during the next week as he attended to the enraged old knight's wounds and bruises.
She played among the lumber where he worked, and he watched her so intently that he scarred his shinbone with an adze he should have been minding. He cut off his forefinger with an ax when she was dancing on a beam near by, and once fell off a roof when craning his neck to see her go round a corner.
Whenever bone is needed for some special operation, there are always men willing to give some, a leg if necessary to save some mangled mate from being crippled for life. More than one man will go through life with another man's blood running through his veins, or a piece of his rib or his shinbone in his own anatomy. Sometimes he never even knows the name of his benefactor.
An uproar had been generated at the Club; chairs were broken, bottles smashed, and sporting prints kicked about all on account of a comical but rather scurrilous speech contrasting Europe with Australasia by a new-comer, a member of the New Zealand House of Representatives, who limped home not long afterwards with a damaged shinbone and black eye.
Any baseball player knows how it hurts to be hit on the shinbone. McCall waved his bat madly. "Rube! Rube! Rube!" he yelled. Then and there Hurtle got the name that was to cling to him all his baseball days. McCall went back to the plate, red in the face, mad as a hornet, and he sidestepped every time Rube pitched a ball. He never even ticked one and retired in disgust, limping and swearing.
Especially was this true of the ligaments at the groin used in lifting high the knee, and the long muscles along the front of the shinbone, by which the toe of the snow-shoe was elevated. He found himself very glad to drop behind into the beaten trail. The sun by now had climbed well above the horizon, but did little to mitigate the cold.
The sketch is likely to become classical in American history of the appearance which he presented with his scant pair of trousers, "hitched" by a single suspender over his shirt, and so short as to expose, at the lower end, half a dozen inches of "shinbone, sharp, blue, and narrow."
He wore low shoes, buckskin breeches, linsey woolsey shirt, and a cap made of the skin of an opossum or a coon. The breeches clung close to his thighs and legs, but parted by a large space to meet the tops of his shoes. Twelve inches remained uncovered, and exposed that much of shinbone, sharp, blue and narrow."
Even this restriction worked badly. Coaches and fours were driven through the proclamation; the well-to-do got good weight, and the toiler shinbone! The system of meat distribution was a source of trouble to the end. Friday morning was one to live in our memories, it brought the execrable hooters again.
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