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Updated: June 14, 2025
He stood silently apart, and looked at Nehushta who leaned back against the tent-pole in violent agitation; her hands wringing each other beneath her long sleeves, and her eyes turning from the king to Zoroaster, and back again to the king, in evident distress and fear.
Then, at a concerted signal, the ropes supporting the tent were cut. At the same time the captain's bed, which made a convenient protuberance in the side of the tent, was seized and tipped over, while tent-pole, canvas, and all, came down upon him in a mass. "Help! guard! help!" he shrieked, struggling under the heap.
Burke called in, and Betty gave her a highly amusing and somewhat colored version of the interview. "You know, I think that our theological seminaries don't teach budding parsons all they ought to, by any means," she concluded. "I quite agree with you, Betty dear; and I thank my stars for college athletics," laughed Maxwell, squaring up to the tent-pole.
Why did the Boy Chief turn pale, and clutch at the tent-pole for support? Why, indeed! "Eliza J. Sniffen," gasped Jenkins, "aged fourteen, red-haired, with a slight tendency to strabismus?" "The same." "Heaven help me! She died by my mandate!" "Traitor!" shrieked Chitterlings, rushing at Jenkins with a drawn poniard. But a figure interposed.
My hands smart a good deal; but how is that man I ran back to get out?" "You ran back to get him out, my lad?" said the colonel. "Yes; I kicked against him. He was pinned down by some trestles and a tent-pole," said Dick, speaking in a feverish, excited way. "Do tell me how he is." "Rather bad yet, so one of my colleagues says," replied the doctor.
In this involuntary flight the little creature unfortunately struck the tent-pole with considerable force, and half of his tail was broken off a matter of no very great importance to a lizard, perhaps, but still a discouraging reward for a well-meant warning.
The buck-Brahmin evaporates without explanations, an' the bhoy sets cross-legged on the Chaplain's bed prophesyin' bloody war to the men at large. Injia's a wild land for a God-fearin' man. I'll just tie his leg to the tent-pole in case he'll go through the roof. What did ye say about the war? 'Eight thousand men, besides guns, said Kim. 'Very soon you will see. 'You're a consolin' little imp.
There it is, at the foot of the tent-pole. Wonder if it is loaded? "Waugh-ho! Waugh-ho-o-o-o!" The boy springs from his blankets like a cat, and peeps out between the tent-flaps. There sits Enos, in the shelter of a leaning tree by the fire, with his head thrown back and a bottle poised at his mouth. His lonely eye is cocked up at a great horned owl on the branch above him.
The two other tents are of the same pattern and the same gaudy colours within: each of them contains two little iron bedsteads, two Turkish rugs, two washstands, one dressing-table, and such baggage as we had imagined necessary for our comfort, piled around the tent-pole, this by way of precaution, lest some misguided hand should be tempted to slip under the canvas at night and abstract an unconsidered trifle lying near the edge of the tent.
On an occasion when he was thus enjoying himself, it happened that one of those violent hurricanes, to which Persia is subject, arose, and, falling in full force on the royal encampment, blew down the tent wherein he was sitting. It happened unfortunately that the main tent-pole struck him, as it fell, in a vital part, and Sapor died from the blow.
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