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During lunch the youngest Voukotitch tempted the major who was in splendid mood suggesting that it was rather tame to go home after having come within mere bowing distance of the Austrians, and that a few stray bullets would not incommode us. The major saw reason fairly quickly, so we bestrode our horses again and continued our switchback course.
"It's been as good as a switchback," said Amanda after reflection. "But weren't you a little careless about me, Cheetah?" "I never thought of you," said Benham, and then as if he felt that inadequate: "You see I was so annoyed. It's odd at times how annoyed one gets. Suddenly when that horse shied I realized what a beastly business life was as those brutes up there live it.
It is an upward moral tendency for the moment, and often the highest inclination of their life's moral switchback, the one that inevitably precedes the longest and severest drop. At no other time would he have needed an excuse to drink. He hurried so as not to lose anything of the evening's entertainment at the saloon, but his way did not take him direct.
He too, had become aware of the pit of his stomach; but this sensation soon passed away in the excitement he felt at getting away from the earth, for they were already at the height of a house, and rising rapidly. "It is not at all like a little bird," he thought, "but rather resembles a slow train on the surface of the sea, or a horse on a switchback merry-go-round.
It ran away over the switchback of the years, uphill to Midsummer, downhill to Christmas, jumping a ditch at Easter, and a hedge at that terrible thing known as ''Clipse of the Moon. The leaves of the elm trees whispered overhead. He was moving through an avenue that led towards big iron gates beside a little porter's lodge. He saw the hollies, and smelt the laurustinus.
'I am afraid I cannot convey the peculiar sensations of time travelling. They are excessively unpleasant. There is a feeling exactly like that one has upon a switchback of a helpless headlong motion! I felt the same horrible anticipation, too, of an imminent smash. As I put on pace, night followed day like the flapping of a black wing.
Another trumpet sounds "Boot and saddle" and the bustle becomes acute as the mules are harnessed and horses saddled. And from some near squadron which is to form the advance guard are heard the few sharp orders that are necessary to transform it from a crowd of men and horses to a military unit. "Fall in. Number!" And the numbers run down a switchback of sound as each man shouts his own.
"Why, I loaned him to one of the rangers last week and he took him down the Hermit Trail and Mescal fell overboard." "Is he subject to vertigo?" I wanted to know. I had heard we should have steep trails to travel on this trip. "No; the ranger loaded him with two water kegs, and when Mescal got excited on a steep switchback the ranger lost his head and drove him over the edge.
The sun had softened the snow so that I fell flat into it. And there was a dreadful moment when I thought I was going to slide. Even when I was safely over, my anxieties were just beginning. For the Head and the Juniors were not yet over. And there was no space to stop and see them come. It was necessary to move on up the switchback, that the next horse behind might scramble up.
Judy gave a sudden leap in her seat, almost upsetting the General, and bringing down upon her head a storm of reproaches from the coachman. "I know!" she said; "and we're almost halfway there now. Oh h h! it will be lovely." Pip urged her to explain herself. "Bondi Aquarium skating, boats, merry-go-round, switchback threepence a go!" she returned succinctly.
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