The flat of the black's foot struck him, and for twenty feet he was sent like a stone out of a sling-shot.

All at once the blood dropped out of her cheeks as the mercury drops from a broken barometer-tube, and she melted away from her seat like an image of snow; a slung-shot could not have brought her down better.

The far better plan is to wait till he sees you are not pressing him, he then goes off at a surly sling trot, and you can resume the chase with every advantage in your favour.

Some of them seem to belong to soldiers injured in war by having their skulls crushed in, either with clubs or the favorite sling-stones of the Incas.

These sling carry-alls were neatly woven of soft wool and decorated with attractive patterns.

" "Slings words, that feller," remarked Jimmie.

Would the sling work?

"I grabbed him by the heels when he tackled the lion, and I gave him a sling somewheres," replied Jim.

They included the Mummery tent with pegs and poles, the mountain-mercurial barometer, the two Watkins aneroids, the hypsometer, a pair of Zeiss glasses, two 3A kodaks, six films, a sling psychrometer, a prismatic compass and clinometer, a Stanley pocket level, an eighty-foot red-strand mountain rope, three ice axes, a seven-foot flagpole, an American flag and a Yale flag.

Nor does the stone in a sling revolve "once on its axis" for each revolution around the hand.

The other end of the same bar and a sling-shotthe very one that probably felled the clerkhave been found.