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His mother had taught him when very small that he must keep his fur well brushed and his face washed, and he did it just as a Cat would, by wetting his paws and scrubbing his face and the top of his head. He brushed his fur coat with his paws also. While he was here, one of his cousins came from the barn above.
The creek was so low, that when they hurriedly picked their way down the bank to it, Nick could have taken Nellie on his back and carried her across without wetting her feet; but there was nothing to be gained by doing so, as the fire was burning as fiercely on one side as on the other.
Heeding neither, nor the instant wetting of her slippered feet, she struggled on through the waxing drifts to the stable door. With a sigh of relief that the goal was attained, she passed through the partly open doorway and paused at last, breathless from her exertion. On the instant she caught her breath, however, and then demanded, "Who 's there?" A whinny from Joggles was the only response.
On the contrary, with the exception of frost bite, there is a curious absence of such troubles as would ordinarily result from exposure, cold and constant wetting. The open-air life has apparently built up the men. Again and again the extraordinary power of resistance shown has astonished the surgeons.
'Oh whoy ha hem haw he's just an ordinary sort of lookin' man nothin' 'tickler any way, drawled Captain Seedeybuck, now wetting and twirling his moustache. 'Two legs, a head, a back, and so on, I presume, observed the lady. 'Just so, assented Captain Seedeybuck. 'He's a horsey-lookin' sort o' man, I should say, observed Captain Bouncey, 'walks as if he ought to be ridin' wears vinegar tops.
They were seated in the parlour of the inn by themselves, overhauling the ship's papers, which they took out of a tin case, such as is used by mariners to guard against the chances of a wetting. I had come in to join them, for they sometimes used me as a clerk in the business of the ship, and found them too busy to heed my presence. "I tell you, Gurney, I mislike it," Captain Sims was saying.
Their clothing consists of cloth or matting of different kinds, which will be described among their other manufactures. The cloth, which will not bear wetting, they wear in dry weather, and the matting when it rains; they are put on in many different ways, just as their fancy leads them; for in their garments nothing is cut into shape, nor are any two pieces sewed together.
Can't people go along the street without being wet with water from a hose? Pull your hose farther back!" "Sue! Sue! Don't do that! Be careful! You're wetting some one," cried Bunny, as he ran along, not yet seeing the hose. But he could guess what had happened. Sue, coming along and seeing the hose turned on, with the water spurting out, had picked up the nozzle end and was watering the garden.
He let out the impatient mare then, and the mud spattered from his wheels as he flew up the road toward Cheslow. The rain could not last forever; Nature must cease weeping some time. Just as girls, far away from their old homes and their old friends, must cease wetting their pillows with regretful tears after a time, and look forward to the new interests and new friends to which they have come.
The brook continued to be their companion, and they advanced up its mazes, crossing them now and then, on which occasions Evan Dhu uniformly offered the assistance of his attendants to carry over Edward; but our hero, who had been always a tolerable pedestrian, declined the accommodation, and obviously rose in his guide's opinion, by showing that he did not fear wetting his feet.
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