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Updated: April 30, 2025
"Under protest," said I, "if ye ken what that means, which I misdoubt." At that word, they came all in upon me like a flight of birds upon a carrion, seized me, took my sword, and all the money from my pockets, bound me hand and foot with some strong line, and cast me on a tussock of bent.
The Blenheim coach was descending into the valley of the Avetere River pronounced Aveterry from the saddle of Taylor's Pass. Across the river to the right, the grey slopes and flats stretched away to the distant sea from a range of tussock hills.
During the rest of that day Martin sulked by himself behind a great tussock of grass, refusing to eat with the others, and when one of the women went to him and offered him a piece of meat he struck it vindictively out of her hand. She only laughed a little and left him.
The boys wished to explore the Whitewater Bay country, and spent several days following to their sources streams that led in that direction, until satisfied that no stream connected the two regions. Returning to Tussock Bay, they crossed it and entered a branch of Shark River, which led to Little Whitewater Bay. As they neared the bay a loggerhead turtle rose near them and Dick wanted to hunt it.
It is, perhaps, largely as a reaction against the Jacksonian theory of universal competence that the avowed ideal of American education to-day is to cultivate the student's power of concentration to give him a survey, elementary but sound, of as wide a field as possible, but above all to teach him so to use his mind that to whatever corner of that field he may turn for his walk in life, he will be able to focus all his intellect upon it to concentrate and bring to bear all his energies on whatever tussock or mole-hill it may be out of which he has to dig his fortune.
"None, Loskiel, save for the maze of game trails where long leaps are made from tussock to swale, from root to rotting log across black pools of mud, and quivering quicksands whose depths are white as snow under the skin of mud, set with tarnished rainbow bubbles." "But those who come after us, Mayaro! The army the wagons, horses, artillery, cattle nay, the men themselves! How are they to pass?"
"What do you seek, captains?" he asked courteously. "A gold armlet that one of us has lost," they answered. Aziel let his eyes wander on the ground, and not far away perceived the armlet half-hidden in a tussock of dry grass, where, indeed, it had been placed. "Is this the ring?" he asked, lifting it and holding it towards them.
But alas! that swift Camilla, after scouring the plain some two hundred feet with her demitrain, came to grief on an unbending tussock and sat down, panting but savage. As they plodded wearily toward her, she bit her red lips, smacked them on her cruel little white teeth like a festive and sprightly ghoul, and lisped: "You DO look so like guys!
Beneath each tussock had lain concealed a small heap of broken china, which must have been placed there in the dead of the night.
And this is what he sang the song that made his little mate's black beady eyes twinkle and shine as she sat in the tussock; for she felt so proud to think how her mate could warble: "Low down, low down, sitting in the tussock brown, Little mate, the sky is beaming; little mate, earth wears no frown.
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