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Updated: May 28, 2025
A little fortress of carriages stood in Farmer Landfried's courtyard, and in the house the entire large family was assembled. There they sat together in high water-boots, or in clouted laced-boots, and with three-cornered hats, some worn with the corner, others with the broadside forward.
There may be those who go a-fishing and enjoy it. The arranging and selecting of flies, the jointing of rods, the prospective comfort in high water-boots, the creel with the leather strap, every crease in it a reminder of some day without care or fret all this may bring the flush to the cheek and the eager kindling of the eye, and a certain sort of rest and happiness may come with it; but they have never gone a-sketching!
Selecting a new pair of water-boots, he stuffed dry grass inside them, oiled up his six-shooter, then slipped out the back way, and in five minutes was hidden in the thickets. Half an hour later, having completed a detour of the town, he struck the trail to the interior, where he found Poleon Doret, equipped in a similar manner, resting beside a stream, singing the songs of his people.
Only think of my writing again from Marseilles! I was breakfasting yesterday, when there was a cry of 'A man overboard! We went on deck. After a while, the man who had enormous water-boots on, but who was fortunately a good swimmer appeared on the surface, caught hold of a life-preserver which had been thrown out to him, was picked up by a boat, and hoisted on board.
She walked in native water-boots, but her snow-shoes stuck out above the small pack neatly lashed on her straight little shoulders. They waited for her. She came up very brisk and businesslike. To their good-mornings she only nodded in a funny, preoccupied way, never opening her lips. "Charlie gone on?" inquired the Colonel presently. She shook her head. "Knocked out." "Been fightin'?"
They could hear that he was peevish and cross because he had to put on his sea-jacket and cramped water-boots, and go out again into the foul weather. He tore open the kitchen door, and asked them furiously how much longer they were going to keep him waiting. But now his mouth grew as wide open as the door-way he stood in, and his face quite lit up with satisfaction.
Great was the disappointment of the younger hands at this failure. "He ain't hungry," explained one. "Ain't he?" contemptuously retorted another. "Just you drop overboard and try him, bo'; why he'd take you sou'wester, water-boots, and all down that main-hatchway of his'n without winking, and then come back and axe for more.
"My dear Miss Clara, ye see, there'll be nobody to see that his lordship pits on dry stockings; and he's always getting over the tops of his water-boots, being young and daft, as we've all been, and no offence to you; and to tell you truth, I can stand all temptations in moderation, that is, save an' except the chance o' cleiking a fish."
He wore long water-boots reaching above his knees, and, instead of making a circuit to find a bridge by which he might cross the Froom the river aforesaid he made straight for the point whence proceeded the low roar that was at this hour the only evidence of the stream's existence.
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