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In silence we followed Auguste through the depths of the woods, turning here and there to avoid a fallen tree or a sink-hole where the water still remained. At length we came out in the glare of the sun and crossed the dusty road to the levee bank. Some forty yards below us was the canoe, and we walked to it, still in silence. Auguste flung in his bundle, and turned to us.
Presently Hyde joined us, then came Granville, and we filed back to camp, where "Doc" told his story: "Boys, them dogs' eyes shined like new money. Coaly fit agin, all right, and got his tail bit. The bear div down into a sink-hole with the dogs a-top o' him. Soon's I could shoot without hittin' a dog, I let him have it. Thought I'd shot him through the head, but he fit on.
Say, John" to Richmond "why don't you buy something?" "What? Oh, you gulp, you succession of swallows, you human sink-hole! Flummers, I have bought you whisky enough to overflow the Mississippi." "Oh, ho, ho, but not to-day, John. Past whisky is a scandal; in present whisky there lies a virtue.
"Not yet, my lady." "And what on earth is a sink-hole?" asked Elizabeth. Elizabeth had ample time during the ensuing sixteen hours for inquiry as to the nature of sink-holes. When she emerged, dressed, into the saloon she found Yerkes looking out of the window in a brown study. He was armed with a dusting brush and a white apron, but it did not seem to her that he had been making much use of them.
On the bluff, at a distance of one hundred and fifty yards back, there is a sink-hole which communicates with the cave. Within the cave is a cool, clear spring of water, and Mr. F. said he could keep meat fresh there for six weeks during midsummer." "The Third Magnesian Limestone which occupies such a large portion of Southwest Missouri, often contains very large caves.
We had not been here long, when a party of mounted men rushed at full speed upon us. I took deliberate aim and shot the leader of the party. He fell lifeless from his horse. All my people fired, but without effect. The enemy rushed upon us without giving us time to reload. They surrounded us and forced us into a deep sink-hole, at the bottom of which there were some bushes.
High wages were necessary to induce a mason to disappear in that fetid mine; the ladder of the cess-pool cleaner hesitated to plunge into it; it was said, in proverbial form: "to descend into the sewer is to enter the grave;" and all sorts of hideous legends, as we have said, covered this colossal sink with terror; a dread sink-hole which bears the traces of the revolutions of the globe as of the revolutions of man, and where are to be found vestiges of all cataclysms from the shells of the Deluge to the rag of Marat.
The only phenomenon worthy the attention of any inquiring mind, in this whole record, I will now describe. As we drove along the side of a hill, and at least two hundred feet above the water, the road suddenly diverged and took a circuit higher up. The driver said that was to avoid a sink-hole in the old road, a great curiosity, which it was worth while to examine.
Birth of Black Hawk Early adventures Battles with the Osages and Cherokees Death of his father Interview with Lieutenant Pike Attack upon Fort Madison Joins the British in the late war Marches to lake Erie Returns home after the attack upon Fort Stephenson Murder of his adopted son Battle of the Sink-hole near Cap au Gris Treaty of peace at Portage des Sioux in 1816.
They soon tore the poor infant from the mother's arms and killed and scalped it, that she might travel faster. While they were scalping this child, Peggy McClure, a girl twelve years old, perceived a sink-hole immediately at her feet and dropped silently into it. It communicated with a ravine, down which she ran and brought the news to the settlement.
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