Moving slowly outward upon the two branches Tarzan swung Numa out so that he could not reach the bole of the tree with his raking talons, then he made the rope fast after drawing the lion clear of the ground, dropped his five pigskin sacks to earth and leaped down himself.
He gasped for breath and struggled; but the strips of pigskin that held his four legs together were numerous and tough.
First he drew the larger bag over Numa's head and secured it about his neck with the draw string, then he managed, after considerable effort, during which he barely escaped being torn to ribbons by the mighty talons, to hog-tie Numa--drawing his four legs together and securing them in that position with the strips trimmed from the pigskins.
This being accomplished, he felt anxious to make trial himself, on the spot, of the virtue of this precious balsam, as he considered it, and so he drank near a quart of what could not be put into the flask and remained in the pigskin in which it had been boiled; but scarcely had he done drinking when he began to vomit in such a way that nothing was left in his stomach, and with the pangs and spasms of vomiting he broke into a profuse sweat, on account of which he bade them cover him up and leave him alone.
Sancho Panza, who also regarded the amendment of his master as miraculous, begged him to give him what was left in the pigskin, which was no small quantity.
"He stood there, in Norfolk jacket,
pigskin puttees, and all the rest of the fashionable get-up out of a bandbox, sneering at me covered with filth and grease to the eyebrows and looking like a navvy.
He drew out of his breast pocket a new
pigskin pocket-book.
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Speaking about Connolly he said he should go back to football, but if it's not the round ball then maybe he'd like the
pigskin better.
Just last week, the Department of Agriculture has expanded the importation ban on
pigskin leather amid continuous outbreaks of the virus.
After tossing around the
pigskin for three years, Sister Rita quit the game and in 2007 had a religious experience that left her searching for a deeper spiritual connection to God.