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And again, in some trees alongside the road, they came upon a large flock of stocky-built birds, a little smaller than robins, so tame that the boys drove beneath them and could see their thick bills, and the marvellous clarity of the sunset yellow of their heads, shading to twilight down their backs, to black night on their wings, barred by a strip of clear white moonlight.
Through this we came to the big wire corrals in which were kept the dogs. Here I met old Ben. Old Ben was not very old; but he was different from young Ben. He was a pointer of the old-fashioned, stocky-built, enduring type common and serviceable before our bench-show experts began to breed for speed, fineness, small size and lack of stamina. Ben proved in the event to be a good all-round dog.
I'm referrin' to the stocky-built young Romeo that picked you up at the door last night." "Oh, yes," says she placid, "Nelson Lindholm. We had Sanskrit together." "Eh?" says I. "Sans-which? What kind of a disease is that?" "It's a language," explains Ruby. "We were in the same class. I thought it might help me in my foreign mission work. I'm sure I don't know why Nelson took it, though.
A swift boat manned by a crew in uniform came ashore, and a stocky-built man leaped to the sands. The new-comer seemed to turn a disapproving eye upon the rather motley congregation of native Anchurians, and made his way at once toward Goodwin, who was the most conspicuously Anglo-Saxon figure present. Goodwin greeted him with courtesy.
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