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Updated: May 16, 2025
The horses and camels and donkeys, terrorized by the trumpeting of the pachyderm, kicked and pulled at their tethers. A dozen or more broke loose, and it was the galloping of these past him that brought a sudden idea into Baynes' head. He turned to search for Meriem only to find her at his elbow. "The horses!" he cried. "If we can get a couple of them!"
We had fire but we were starving for food. Our horses were like wild beasts in their ravenous hunger, tearing the clothing from the men who came too carelessly near to their rope tethers.
The songstress paused, and was answered by one or two deep and hollow groans, that seemed to proceed from the very agony of the mortal strife. 'It will not be, she muttered to herself; 'he cannot pass away with that on his mind, it tethers him here Heaven cannot abide it, Earth refuses to hide it. Open lock, end strife, Come death, and pass life.
The flickering logs on the great pile of embers crackling and sinking as they consume; now falling suddenly and throwing up a shower of sparks, then resting again in a dull red heat, casting a silvery moonlike glare upon the foliage of the spreading trees above. A little farther on, and the horses standing sleepily at their tethers, their heads drooping in a doze.
With one accord we decided to spend the night there, before undertaking the mountain. There was a spring, in a dark basin, from which fell a little cascade; there were a few shrubs, a few plants. Already the camels were browsing at the length of their tethers. Bou-Djema arranged our camp dinner service of tin cups and plates on a great flat stone.
Her own mare now shared the restlessness of the tall bay, and the two were footing it nervously here and there, tugging at the tethers, and tossing up their heads, with many a start, as if they feared and sought to flee from some approaching catastrophe some vast and preternatural change some forest fire which came galloping faster than even their fleet limbs could carry them.
"What's that racket over there in the bushes?" demanded Ned, wheeling sharply. "It's the ponies," answered Tad, darting away. At last the little animals had discovered the presence of the bear in camp and were making frantic efforts to break their tethers. "Come over here, some of you. The bronchos are having a fit. I can't manage all of them at once," called Tad in an excited tone.
The songstress paused, and was answered by one or two deep and hollow groans, that seemed to proceed from the very agony of the mortal strife. 'It will not be, she muttered to herself; 'he cannot pass away with that on his mind, it tethers him here Open lock, end strife, Come death, and pass life. Brown, who had by this time moved from his post, stood before her as she opened the door.
A colonial legislature, tethered as it is, and ever will be, until the Governor is elected by the people, to English administrative incapacity might, with no lack of prudence, have been permitted rope enough to wander round the tethering post, so that it would only have been at considerable intervals that the effect of the tethers would have been in any degree galling or even felt.
But suddenly there was peace, just as Jill opening her eyes murmured, "What a dreadful noise the sea is making," and closed them again, for the maker of sweet music, and head-tender of camels, had grasped the danger to his beloved master, also the disaster impending among the seething herd, who were all upon their feet and straining at their tethers.
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