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Carnaby The First.
residence ; and , in the mean time , he has demonstrated that he can feed the people upon the saw-dust , at a reduction of five and twenty per cent , of the cost of the original timber ; thus maintaining them upon the proceeds during the construction of a glory to their country , and giving them it besides ! Luke is employed in the perusal of a folio tome of Parisian mathematics
, and has beside him a measuring-glass , Avith Avhich he ascertains the progress of the information . Three of our circle of travellers are professed Mussulmen , and the other three haA r e not yet made up their minds as to their religious belief . An abundance of v / ine-bottles and claret-jars , Persian bouteilles and classic cruchesare in the midstthe
, , Mussulmen professors having paid for a dispensation to drink Avine any day that they should chance to see , on first Avaking , three Avild penguins flying to the hitherward . Such Avas the case the morning of the day in question , and such , Ave are free to confess , was very often the case . In conclusionAve may say that the whole party had a curious
, way of opening and shutting their mouths , like nut-crackers , which had an ominous and terrible effect . As the reader Avill perceive , there was something sinister and dreadful about this queer fraternity , an irregularity of which even the camels seemed to be aware , for they sneezed their discomposure at it .
FIT THE SECOND . Every UOAV and then , greatly to my surprise , there happed an extraordinary convulsion of the ground , which impressed me as terrific in the extreme , but which these truly singular personages seemed to pass over as in nowise remarkable . Gathered in a circleandas I regarded themtheir fixedstatue-like faces
, , , , were bent upon me in a calm , imperturbable , Sphynx-like manner , which . eA ery minute threatened to groAV most terrible . Their heads , like heads of images rather than of men , at every fresh snatch of the ground , divided bodily at the throat , and started back , as if at a hinge . This effect Avas truly alarming ; but it seemed to be treated as a matter of courseand I even
, appeared , in a little time , to groAV accustomed to it . So much Avill an appearance of complacency over a thing do , that I even greAV reconciled , Avithout any feeling of the dismay so natural at it , to see the heads come snap doAvn again like a "box-lid . In a little while , adding to the marvels , a SIOAV , stony sort of conversation commenced . It was just such an unimaginably
diverse , ungainly exchange of ideas as , if they were gifted Avith speech , one might look for in half a dozen or so of noseless statues . My feelings remained much about the same ; they VOL . i . 2 L
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Carnaby The First.
residence ; and , in the mean time , he has demonstrated that he can feed the people upon the saw-dust , at a reduction of five and twenty per cent , of the cost of the original timber ; thus maintaining them upon the proceeds during the construction of a glory to their country , and giving them it besides ! Luke is employed in the perusal of a folio tome of Parisian mathematics
, and has beside him a measuring-glass , Avith Avhich he ascertains the progress of the information . Three of our circle of travellers are professed Mussulmen , and the other three haA r e not yet made up their minds as to their religious belief . An abundance of v / ine-bottles and claret-jars , Persian bouteilles and classic cruchesare in the midstthe
, , Mussulmen professors having paid for a dispensation to drink Avine any day that they should chance to see , on first Avaking , three Avild penguins flying to the hitherward . Such Avas the case the morning of the day in question , and such , Ave are free to confess , was very often the case . In conclusionAve may say that the whole party had a curious
, way of opening and shutting their mouths , like nut-crackers , which had an ominous and terrible effect . As the reader Avill perceive , there was something sinister and dreadful about this queer fraternity , an irregularity of which even the camels seemed to be aware , for they sneezed their discomposure at it .
FIT THE SECOND . Every UOAV and then , greatly to my surprise , there happed an extraordinary convulsion of the ground , which impressed me as terrific in the extreme , but which these truly singular personages seemed to pass over as in nowise remarkable . Gathered in a circleandas I regarded themtheir fixedstatue-like faces
, , , , were bent upon me in a calm , imperturbable , Sphynx-like manner , which . eA ery minute threatened to groAV most terrible . Their heads , like heads of images rather than of men , at every fresh snatch of the ground , divided bodily at the throat , and started back , as if at a hinge . This effect Avas truly alarming ; but it seemed to be treated as a matter of courseand I even
, appeared , in a little time , to groAV accustomed to it . So much Avill an appearance of complacency over a thing do , that I even greAV reconciled , Avithout any feeling of the dismay so natural at it , to see the heads come snap doAvn again like a "box-lid . In a little while , adding to the marvels , a SIOAV , stony sort of conversation commenced . It was just such an unimaginably
diverse , ungainly exchange of ideas as , if they were gifted Avith speech , one might look for in half a dozen or so of noseless statues . My feelings remained much about the same ; they VOL . i . 2 L