This he would have known at once by the tracks through the mud.
At such times I could see his villanous face plainly, and, when the sulphur from the matches irritated his lungs, between the raspy cough that followed and the clammy mud in which I was lying, I confess I shivered harder than ever.
Then the idea that I might be out in the mud must have struck him, for he waded out a few yards in my direction, and, stooping, with his eyes searched the dim surface long and carefully.
Not daring to wade upright, on account of the noise made by floundering and by the suck of the mud, I remained lying down in the mud and propelled myself over its surface by means of my hands.
The thought came to me of going toward Yellow Handkerchief's skiff and escaping in it, but at that very moment he returned to the beach, and, as though fearing the very thing I had in mind, he slushed out through the mud to assure himself that the skiff was safe.
No one could leave or land without making tracks in the mud.
But there was no such mark; and I knew that he was absolutely convinced that I was hiding somewhere in the mud.
But Lors ha' massy, how did you get near such
mud as that?
In both countries the salt-lakes occupy shallow depressions in the plains; in both the
mud on the borders is black and fetid; beneath the crust of common salt, sulphate of soda or of magnesium occurs, imperfectly crystallized; and in both, the muddy sand is mixed with lentils of gypsum.
Our general routine was this: -- Pompey, having rolled himself well in the
mud, sat upon end at the shop door, until he observed a dandy approaching in bright boots.
At least, it is not so much the wet as the
mud that I object to.
Now they knew why they lined their nests with mud, and when Mrs.
From the very beginning of the building of it he slept by its side, and often woke up to say sweet things to it, and after it was lined with mud and the mud had dried he always slept in it.
At nine o'clock they heard the bell and the faint vibration of a carriage over the
mud.
He cussed away with all his might, and throwed his hat down in the
mud and rode over it, and pretty soon away he went a-raging down the street again, with his gray hair a- flying.
