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May the village be destroyed; and the patil when he dies come back to earth a snake, to crawl upon his belly." "The headman even refused to give the holy one the gift of silver tendering instead threats," Ajeet added. The merchant spat his contempt: "Wretches!" he declared; "debased associates of skinners of dead animals, and scrapers of skulls; Bah!" and he spat again.
I have been thinking during the night that you must be most careful when you go abroad; you know that the son of that monster Caboche, the leader of the skinners, and doubtless many leaders of the butchers, among them Legoix, were killed, and their friends are certain to endeavour to take vengeance on you.
Hiram quickly became a favorite with Jo's skinners, too; for anybody or anything that the girl approved of was sure to make an appeal to the loyal little crew who swore by Jerkline Jo. Besides, Hiram was irresistible in his quaint geniality and his musical drawl.
This episode in the stream Nick had named 'Dead Man's Lake, in consequence of finding on its banks the body of a man who had been murdered and mutilated by his old enemies, the Skinners.
Carnegie, Stewart, Ferguson, Lucan, two Skinners, Scott, Birch, and Woodville, are the only names recorded, but there may have been others also who were dismissed from the army at Perron's disposal. The prospects of those who were absent on duty in the Deccan, and elsewhere, soon became far more serious. Though not at present dismissed, they were mostly reserved for a still harder fate.
He went upstairs to see some rat-holes that Skinner said would justify a trap they certainly were enormous and discovered that the room in which the Food of the Gods was mixed with meal and bran was in a quite disgraceful order. The Skinners were the sort of people who find a use for cracked saucers and old cans and pickle jars and mustard boxes, and the place was littered with these.
But the other teams were far in the lead. Then Hiram's wagon entered upon a system of hairpin curves, and for nearly fifteen minutes none of her skinners was in sight. She continued to wonder at the unwonted speed of the skinners ahead of Hiram. Just as she reached the outmost point of a bow in the second hairpin curve, she heard a dull rumble behind her.
Unarmed, and surprised as he was, Lawton's presence of mind did not desert him; he felt that he was in the hands of those from whom he was to expect no mercy; and, as four of the Skinners fell upon him at once, he used his gigantic strength to the utmost. Three of the band grasped him by the neck and arms, with an intent to clog his efforts, and pinion him with ropes.
The Skinners followed Captain Lawton with alacrity, towards the quarters occupied by the troop of that gentleman.
Four or five mule skinners has their long limber sixteen-foot whips, which is loaded with dust-shot from butt to tip, an' is crackin' of 'em at a mark.
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