shin

A DISTINGUISHED Advocate of Republican Institutions was seen pickling his shins in the ocean.

You must regard them as so much bone and iron, rude skeleton joints and shins, as though they were the bones of the great elk or other extinct South Kensington specimen,"--"not," I added in my heart, "as the velvet and ivory which they are."

That's right, Minnie, go for her--get her over the shins with the racquet--get her over the shins!"

I believe the silly fellows must have thought they would break their shins over treasure as soon as they were landed, for they all came out of their sulks in a moment and gave a cheer that started the echo in a far- away hill and sent the birds once more flying and squalling round the anchorage.

Here is a bronzed Moor in a prodigious white turban, curiously embroidered jacket, gold and crimson sash, of many folds, wrapped round and round his waist, trousers that only come a little below his knee and yet have twenty yards of stuff in them, ornamented scimitar, bare shins, stockingless feet, yellow slippers, and gun of preposterous length--a mere soldier!--I thought he was the Emperor at least.

He protested with his usual vehemence, because they had bruised his tender shins against a table leg.

First they fastened on greaves and covered their shins with green bean- pods broken into two parts which they had gnawed out, standing over them all night.

White rabbits went loping about the place, and occasionally came and sniffed at our shoes and shins; a fawn, with a red ribbon on its neck, walked up and examined us fearlessly; rare breeds of chickens and doves begged for crumbs, and a poor old tailless raven hopped about with a humble, shamefaced mein which said, "Please do not notice my exposure--think how you would feel in my circumstances, and be charitable." If he was observed too much, he would retire behind something and stay there until he judged the party's interest had found another object.

The little boy accompanied the words with a sharp kick on Philip's shin, which Philip did not expect and thus could not guard against.

But he was not quick enough, for Pinocchio stretched his leg under the table and kicked him hard on the shin.

Now the men that chased Hal Clayton and Bud Dixon away would spread the thing around in a half an hour, and every neighbor that heard it would shin out and fly around from one farm to t'other and try to be the first to tell the news.

We have a clear month before us; at the end of that, I guess we had best shin out of Utah."