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He took his watch, and a few other articles. There was a pocket-book, but he had neither time nor inclination to look into it. Indeed, in all probability, whatever writing there was had been obliterated by salt water. Among other things was a small pocket spyglass, which was likely to prove useful.
'What a beautiful tree! exclaimed Sir Henry. 'Yes, you are right; it is a beautiful tree. There is not another like it in all the country round, that I know of, answered Mr Mackenzie. 'I call it my watch tower. As you see, I have a rope ladder fixed to the lowest bough; and if I want to see anything that is going on within fifteen miles or so, all I have to do is to run up it with a spyglass.
We commenced by unearthing various meteorological and astronomical instruments the thermometers of Baudin, Salleron, Fastre, an aneroid, a Fortin barometer, chronometers, a sextant, an astronomical spyglass, a compass glass.... In short, what Duveyrier calls the material that is simplest and easiest to transport on a camel.
Judith and Hetty stood on the platform before the door, Hurry's dooryard awaiting his approach with manifest anxiety; the former, from time to time, taking a survey of his person and of the canoes through the old ship's spyglass that has been already mentioned.
An' I'd like to see them two chiefs, Yellow Panther an' Red Eagle so mad that they're pullin' away at their scalp locks, fit to pull them clean out o' their heads." "Since we ain't got any spyglass," said Long Jim, with a sigh, "we've got to imagine a lot uv it, but I've got a fine an' pow'ful imagination, an' so hev you, Sol Hyde." "Yes, I'm seein' the things I want to see.
Standing on the roof, Jack adjusted the spyglass and gave a long look in the direction from whence the sounds were proceeding. "What do you see, Jack?" "I can see nothing but smoke," he answered. "Some is over at Bannock's woods and the other near Townley church." "Don't you see any of our soldiers?" "No. The trees are in the way, and all I can see is a stretch of the bay road.
The question is sometimes asked, "How can one eat his cake and keep it too?" but this does not refer to plum-cake. A few years of plum-cake, cold mince-pie and continual wet feet will put the petard under even the stoutest constitution. During his shanty-life Thoreau was imperfectly nourished, and for the victim of malassimilation, tuberculosis hunts and needs no spyglass.
Anxiously they lingered, the echoes of the blast still in their ears, and a peculiar smell in their nostrils. "But there's no smoke," said Mr. Damon. "Bless my spyglass! I always thought there was smoke at an explosion." "This is a sort of smokeless powder," explained Tom. "It throws off a slight vapor when it is ignited, but not much. I guess it's safe to go out now. Come on!"
The houses are compact, and most of them built of wood, with little regard to beauty; though some few residences there are, of modern style, which do credit to their designers; but the greater number speak only of antiquity, with their shingled sides; and you will rarely see a house that has not a "walk" upon its roof, with which they could by no means dispense, as in case of ship-wreck near the island, the roofs of the whole town will be alive with men, women, and children, spyglass in hand.
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