Tuesday, November 12, 2019

THE SCAMPER IN THE COUNTRY



The twenty-five scouts marched to their corral in the staves over the top of the hill, the British Government stroking his straggling white beard; he looked like a stranded ark.

“He’s very wide”

He once painted the evening, foaming by stealth along the coast, clutching the little emblem during the period 1700-1860. The young losels had already gone ashore, dismounted, tethered their horses to a tree reaching the knots and making no resistance. Mr. Bane pronounced that one of his horses had been stolen. But we could throw no light on it. It was getting dark, rubbing his eyes so long as I have.
  
“There are a few elephants left in Borneo,” said Dick.


















The professor nodded. Thirty years spent in Bermuda, saw him draw from around his neck. To his amazement with eyes glittering in the glory of a western setting, a practice that had never before been put in earnest, his splendor was completed by an embroidered deep gully. The vicar ventured into the enclosure.

It was at one o’clock two days later that saved that batch now tussling on the shore. The youngster was at his last grasp as he kept his saddlery, the village street under his arm.

                “It’s a bomb!” he gasped.

His very uneasiness did not permit him to move  along the edge because there’s a hunk of water in the bottom. At half-past four he was ensconced, after the fight fearing the surface every mile. The old warriors plight was evil to his taste. He sampled the oyster. The latter he has cleared out so as to leave room for the scouts. The groom was questioned, but in the dark ages they used caparisoned elephants in Borneo. Followed by the professor they used to continue into the crumbling thatch.

He went to the steps of the bungalow, taking him by the arm and through sheer force of numbers took their rifles and, un-noticed, got away, firing to give the alarm to have been unloaded tomorrow. He nodded toward the sulphurous emphasis worth two cents on that envelope of an electric torch loaded up with contraband. On a drift of sand near the cleft of a fissured horse, a large javelin, he heard the noise of footsteps.

                “Hullo!”

No answer. The voice of professor Rosario inspected Mistress Isabel behind which fell steeply to the river. But the trial dragged  slowly on, from the top of a stump they poked at his unfinished breakfast.

                “Perhaps you now know one reason for refusing.” 
   
Here that young man came presently his eyebrows elevated at the moment it was not butterflies. To his amazement he seized the officer’s hand and became a definite statement of fact, and the ground around it. But the foul fiend would be fitting the nooses farther than the young waterfall. It shovels away, leaving the nozzle of the hose-pipes tucked away under the campsite. 

On Sunday afternoon, eager that the symptoms thrust behind in the ounce on two fellows frowned at Rawbones, an action which drew the heavy soil when he had taken stock. He wiped at the perspiration on his halter, wandering and outwitted as far as say 40 degrees and a narrow gap that the Antarctic Current could reckon. What with her high sides, funnel, ventilator and foolish remarks, he took it as a matter of wool in the nest. 

The descent was difficult. They set out just as they were and waged a relentless river in the valley. 

After the first fight they hit their own men.


Gregg Simpson,  1967

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