Identifier: travelssurprisin00forrrich (find matches)
Title: The travels and surprising adventures of Baron Munchausen;
Year: 1860 (1860s)
Authors: Forrester, A. H
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Publisher: New York, James Miller
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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I stopped, gentlemen; butjudge of my astonishment, when in this market-place I saw not one of my hussars about me ! Arethey scouring the other streets ? or what is becomeof them ? They could not be far off, and must, atall events, soon join me. In that expectation Iwalked my panting Lithuanian to a spring in thismarket-place, and let him drink. He drank un-commonly—with an eagerness not to be satisfied,but natural enough, for when I looked round formy men, what should I see, gentlemen—the hind-part of the poor creature, croup and legs, were miss-ing, as if he had been cut in two, and the water ranout as it came in, without refreshing or doing himany good! How it could have hajDpened wasquite a mystery to me, till I returned with him tothe town-gate. There I saw, that when I rushed inpell-mell with the flying enemy, they had droppedthe portcullis (a heavy falling door, with sharpspikes at the bottom, let down suddenly, to preventthe entrance of an enemy into a fortified town), un-
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BARON MUNCHAUSEN. 41 perceived by me, which had totally cut off his hindpart, that still lay quivering on the outside of thegate. It would have been an irreparable loss, hadnot our farrier contrived to bring both parts togeth-er while hot. He sewed them up with sprigs andyoung shoots of laurel that were at hand. Thewound healed ; and what could not have happenedbut to so glorious a horse, the sprigs took root in hisbody, grew up, and formed a bower over me; sothat afterwards I could go upon many other expe-ditions in the shade of my own and my horseslaurels.

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