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The poor animals, which had been unyoked, snuffed and smelt at the wet, damp earth, and licked it with their tongues, but could obtain no relief. The water which they had had in the casks for their own drinking was now all gone; and there were no hopes of obtaining any till they arrived at the Vet River, at least twenty five to thirty miles distant.
He then raised himself from the earth with a light and elastic vet firm movement, and resumed the place he had previously occupied, where, to his surprise, he beheld a second victim bound, and, apparently, devoted to the same death.
He'll have to lay off a long time if he's to get it in shape. An' Bridget ain't ever goin' to do a tap of work again. I can see that stickin' out. I've doctored her an' doctored her. She's fooled the vet, too. An' some of the other horses has gotta take a rest. That span of grays is showin' the hard work. An' the big roan's goin' loco. Everybody thought it was his teeth, but it ain't.
Half an hour later they passed a small river steamer and hailed the craft. "What's wanted?" shouted somebody through a megaphone. "Seen anything of a houseboat around here?" "No," was the prompt answer. "All right; thanks!" And then they allowed the river steamer to pass them. "Dis night vos so vet like neffer vos!" remarked Hans. "Well, we have got to make the best of it," answered Dick.
Vet. Islandic. ap. Langebeck, II. 31. Forster, Hist. of Voy. and Disc. in the North, p. 50. Voyages of Ohthere to the White Sea and the Baltic, in the Ninth Century.
Lord Morris knew something of medicine, as he did of most things, and asked if the dose given would not have killed the devil himself. The vet. drew himself up pompously, and said: 'I never had the honour of attending that gentleman. 'That's a pity, doctor, replied Morris, 'for he's alive still.
Nothing could match the wonderful picturesqueness of his camp spread out over the side of a hill with the bearded fine featured old Van Dyck and Hugonot heads under great sombreros. De Vet made us a long speech saying it was only to be expected that the Great Republic would send men to help the little Republics, but he had not hoped that the women would show their sympathy by coming too.
For day after day they swung over the long seas which always sweep across the Australian Bight, but the troops ran about the ships as if they had never been anywhere else, and the horses stamped and whinnied unanimously when the boys stood ready to feed, and looked eagerly for more than the martinet of a Vet would allow.
If I wet my pats, Nolan gave me a hot bath and chained me to the stove; if I couldn't eat my food, being stuffed full by the cook for I am a house-dog now, and let in to lunch, whether there is visitors or not, Nolan would run to bring the vet. It was all tommy rot, as Jimmy says, but meant most kind.
"The calcium is commonly reported in terms of lime, or, as you would say, quick lime; and vet the soil may be an acid soil, like yours, and contain no lime whatever, neither as quick lime nor limestone.
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