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"Bateson and Jukes pulled off the kids' hundred yards; and jolly cocky they were, I can tell you. Bateson's the sneak I told you of. "Tilbury won the Shell quarter-mile. Dig and I were in for it, but we wanted to save ourselves for the long jump and hurdles, so we ran easy, and Tilbury did it hands down. "Ah, Da, really you should have been there to see the high jump!
All the way from Modder to Bloemfontein was strewn with the bodies of horses; if all other marks had been gone, these melancholy quarter-mile posts would have guided you unerringly. It was night as a rule before the column reached its camp, and there were some gorgeous pictures in the great outspanning commotion seen through dust clouds and the red sunset, and by light of many camp fires.
These grewsome memories sent a quake through Mud Sam's heart, but when the bushes cracked under the strangers' tread, he knew that they were of flesh and bone, and, following them for a quarter-mile into the wood, he saw them dig a hole, plant a strong-box there, and cover it.
Bell photographed them painstakingly. "Somehow," said Cochrane, "I think they'd be wholesome food. If we can, we'll empty a freezing-locker and take a carcass for tests." Holden fingered his rifle unhappily. Alicia said nothing. Babs stayed close beside her. They went on. They came to another dead animal a quarter-mile away. The ground was full of the scent and the hoofmarks of the departed herd.
It is situated on a ledge in the escarpment, is perhaps a quarter-mile wide, and includes nothing more elaborate than the station, a row of Indian dukkas, and two houses of South Africans set back towards the rise in the cliffs. A mile or so away, and on a little higher level, stand the extensive buildings of an American mission.
"This sunken road is always hairy," remarked the signal officer known to his intimates as Sigs giving the General a hand-up from his particular lair. "It were unwise to linger, sir." "Another quarter-mile and we hit Essex Trench," remarked the Brigade-Major. "Sally's head-quarters are there."
"Well, for some reason or other, I feel fine this morning let's take a constitutional around the dock." The young men walked off, side by side, and began the circuit of the dock's quarter-mile outline. The breeze was such a rarity in the becalmed region that the two paused now and then to take long grateful breaths, and to watch the little wind waves ripple the glassy Sargasso lanes.
Ardea wrapped the child hastily and gave him to Pete to carry, following as quickly as she could down the path made possible by the coachman's choppings. Happily, the doctor's horse was freshly shod, and the quarter-mile to the manor-house was measured in safety. Ardea left little Tom with Mammy Juliet at her cabin in the old quarters, and went up to the great house to wait anxiously for news.
Without further speech, we turned back to where Dick was guarding the packs. That youth we found profoundly indifferent. "Kawagama," we cried, "a quarter-mile ahead." He turned on us a lack-lustre eye. "You going to camp here?" he inquired dully. "Course not! We'll go on and camp at the lake." "All right," he replied.
It's less than a quarter-mile southwest of the buoy, and we're drifting straight down upon it! If we go over it, we'll be swamped, sure as fate, drug or no drug! We'll simply be buried under tons and tons of water!" Percy fought off his panic. "What shall we do?" he stammered. "Make the whistler if we can. It's buoy or breaker, and mighty quick, too!"
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