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The black, single-reined curb bridle, fastened as to the throat latch by a light buckle, was slipped on over the headstall of the so-called watering bridle, whose toggled and detachable snaffle bit was generally "toted" from start to finish of a field scout in the saddle bags, a twist of the flexible lariat, Indian fashion, between the complaisant jaws of his pet, being the troop's ready substitute.
"Why didn't you say what I told you?" "I don't want to be bound in any such way as that," replied the terrified student. "Don't you see it is only a form?" "No, I don't; or if it is, I don't want anything to do with such forms. You won't get any fellows to be toggled in that way." "Yes, I shall? I shall get plenty of them. They are not babies, like you." "I'm not a baby."
Some of them were "toggled up" with twine, and one or two had handles rudely carved out of wood. Two of them were genuine revolvers which he had managed to earn by working in the harvest field on the Burns' farm. From his fifteenth year he was never without a shotgun and revolver. The shotgun was allowed, but the revolver was still contraband and kept carefully concealed.
The mode adopted for this purpose by the Chinese is to bury the timber for a considerable time in marshy ground; thus treated, they say teak becomes hard as iron. The mast did not go within four feet of the bottom the ship having no kelson but, to use the technical term, was "toggled" to two large pieces of wood which answered as partners.
Our average hillsman now goes about in a dirty blue shirt, wapsy and ragged trousers toggled up with a nail or two, thick socks sagging untidily over rusty brogans, and a huge, black, floppy hat that desecrates the landscape. Presently his hatband disappears, to be replaced with a groundhog thong, woven in and out of knife slits, like a shoestring.
The object of the League was duly explained; and before the second part of the port watch came on deck, three new members had been "toggled."
He has been 'toggled, and must obey his superiors of course he has been toggled; he couldn't have voted if he hadn't been." Shuffles was terribly exercised by the repeated flings of his disconcerted rival.
"I promise, without any reservation, to acknowledge Shuffles as captain, if he is chosen, and faithfully to obey his orders, on penalty of falling overboard accidentally." Pelham repeated these words, and then "toggled" his rival in the same manner.
"It will be called simply 'The Chain. I am the first member, and you are the second; or you will be when you have been toggled." "Toggled again!" laughed Wilton. "What do you mean?" "Initiated." "Go ahead, then." "Repeat after me." "Go on," replied Wilton, deeply interested in the proceeding, even while he was amused at its formality. "I am a link of the chain."
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