" He went to a farrier, and said to him, "Shoe my hind feet, and make the nails stick out well.

"Thou coward hind!

And when the fright is over the two heads peep out of the top of the pouch, and the old man grunts, as much as to say: "O, come on out, there is no danger, and let your ma have a little rest, 'cause she is nervous," and then the babies come out and run around the cage, and sit up on their hind feet and look wise.

This Allah business was all right when the elephant waltzed, but when we got to the next block the beast began to stand on his hind feet, and pa and the houris rolled to the back end of the howdah, and were all piled in a heap, while I held on to the cloth of gold over the elephant's head.

It seemed as though he never would get through using pa for a mop, but finally the people got a rope around pa, and a keeper got an iron hook in the elephant's ear, and they pulled pa out on one side, and got the elephant away on the other side, and just then the callipoe, that ends the parade, came by us and played the "Blue Danube," and the elephant got on his hind feet and waltzed on the pavement.

Pa is going to wear his pants hind side before until we get out of Pittsburg.

When she saw our baboon she yelled "fire," and the officers of the boat pulled him out by the hind leg, and tore my pant leg off.

The elephants stood on their heads and hind feet, and fore feet, laid down, fired pistols, and did everything just right, without making a mistake.

The trail keeps getting fresher and by and by the game is in sight, and the dogs are nipping its hind legs, if it is a bear, or chewing big words if it is an opposing candidate, and nipping him in exposed places.

My hind legs were in a dish of jelly, and my front ones were in a plate of cake, and I was very uncomfortable.

It was a foreleg that was caught, and he would put his hind feet against the jaws of the trap, and then draw by pressing with his feet, till he would stretch those tendons to their utmost extent.

He was going along in a very queer fashion, putting his nose to the ground, and rising up on his hind legs, and sniffing the air, first on this side and then on the other, and his nose going, going all the time.

" "I've seen them," said Miss Laura, "standing up on their hind legs and nibbling at the trees, taking off every shoot they can reach.

Marry, for diving into fobs they are rather lamely provided a priori; but if the hue and cry were once up, they would show as fair a pair of hind-shifters as the expertest loco-motor in the colony.

One day three gazelles were caught, and also a fox, by R.'s greyhound, which behaved extremely well, and left the other dogs in the rear, every now and then attacking him in the hind-quarters.

For my work in South Africa I was given by Lord Hardinge a Kaiser-i-Hind Gold Medal.

And, Jason, look to Ruppert's off-hind shoe; I think it's loose; and" She stopped with a short laugh.

As unthinkingly, he put Ida up; and it was not until the colt rose on its hind legs that he remembered to ask her if the horse were broken.

Bottles of wine and louis d'or form the groundwork of this hind of politics.

From one side of the mass projected the animal's hind-quarters, from the other its front, and there were the glaring eyes and savage open jaws.

Big Bob arose erect on his hind legs, his fore feet rested on the window sill.

On each angle of the hind head, they leave a long lock of hair, which they braid and knot together under each ear.

Frank stooped down, and catching hold of one of the dead animal's hind legs, started dragging it toward the fire.

The carriage was swaying perilously, but Sir George saw that the ground was rising, and that up the hill he must win; and, taking his horse by the head, he lifted it on by sheer strength until his stirrup was abreast of the hind wheels.

" Dryden's chastisement of Burnet"the noble Buzzard"in his Hind and Panther must be familiar to your readers.