They soon discovered that the path they had been following now made a bend and passed around the enclosure, but what made Ojo stop and look thoughtful was a sign painted on the
fence which read:
Does a boy get a chance to whitewash a
fence every day?"
For this fell purpose he had backed the astounded De Vac twice around the hall when, with a clever feint, and backward step, the master of
fence drew the King into the position he wanted him, and with the suddenness of lightning, a little twist of his foil sent Henry's weapon clanging across the floor of the armory.
In silence the two stood in the darkness with the
fence between them.
there, on the farther side of the thorn
fence, looking large in the grey mist, stood the lad Umslopogaas, laughing.
"I don't think it's such a very wonderful thing to walk a little, low, board
fence," she said.
In some strange way, she knew not how, his head had become wedged at the neck between the tops of the pickets of her
fence. His body hung down outside, the knees not quite touching the ground.
Everywhere else it had been ploughed under when the highways were surveyed; this half-mile or so within the pasture
fence was all that was left of that old road which used to run like a wild thing across the open prairie, clinging to the high places and circling and doubling like a rabbit before the hounds.
A cavalry charge hurls itself against the
fence; you are using no power, you are spending no money, for there is only one ground-connection till those horses come against the wire; the moment they touch it they form a con- nection with the negative brush THROUGH THE GROUND, and drop dead.
Motives are all very well, but the
fence comes here."
They could be seen plainly-- tall, gaunt men with excited faces running with long strides toward a wandering
fence.
Then she climbed down from the
fence and walked up to it, while Toto ran around the pole and barked.