So they oiled his legs until he could move them freely; and he thanked them again and again for his release, for he seemed a very polite creature, and very grateful.
Once more the tinsmith came to my help and made me a body of tin, fastening my tin arms and legs and head to it, by means of joints, so that I could move around as well as ever.
This he did in a series of hops, and he moved so swiftly in this strange manner that those with two
legs had to run to keep up with him.
"But just keep those
legs still a minute and I'll set you right side up again."
And Three-
Legs and all owners of things paid Dog-Tooth and Sea-Lion and Big- Fat their share in money.
Hey?' repeated the man with the wooden
leg. I afterwards found that he generally acted, with his strong voice, as Mr.
He landed on his head with his
leg in the air, his gun being wedged between two paving-stones.
He did it on a gallop, breaking the gallop off short by fore
legs stiffly planted.
And what would you want to saw his
leg off for, anyway?"
One evening, as he rose from table, his
legs failed him."
The deck-full of blacks shrieked their merriment, and Jerry, his rage undiminished, his immediate antagonist out of the battle, mistaking himself as the object of the laughter of the blacks, turned upon them, charging and slashing the many
legs that fled before him.
Sometimes he brought his grandfather, who always looked closely at my
legs.