Behind her, Bashti placed Wiwau, who was armed with a bristle of bamboo
splints mounted on a light long shaft of bamboo.
By this time all the fight was out of him, so that when I had gathered a few tiny branches from some of the stunted trees that grew in the crevices of the cliff, and returned to him he permitted me to set his broken leg and bind it in splints. I had to tear part of my shirt into bits to obtain a bandage, but at last the job was done.
I took the great paw in one hand and with the other hand untied and unwound the bandage, removed the splints and felt of the injured member.
He was still quite helpless, however, with both his arms in
splints.
Then he and the sergeant set her arm and put it in
splints, she wincing but not whimpering; then we took up the march for home, and that's the end of the tale; and I'm her horse.
It was with a sense of luxury that he recognized his power of viewing life here from its inner side, in a way that had been quite foreign to him in his student-days; and, much as he loved his parents, he could not help being aware that to come here, as now, after an experience of home-life, affected him like throwing off
splints and bandages; even the one customary curb on the humours of English rural societies being absent in this place, Talbothays having no resident landlord.
The fore-part of his thighs, where the folds of his mantle permitted them to be seen, were also covered with linked mail; the knees and feet were defended by
splints, or thin plates of steel, ingeniously jointed upon each other; and mail hose, reaching from the ankle to the knee, effectually protected the legs, and completed the rider's defensive armour.
A darkened and hushed room; the river outside the windows flowing on to the vast ocean; a figure on the bed, swathed and bandaged and bound, lying helpless on its back, with its two useless arms in
splints at its sides.
"Mercy me, the whole ranch is a hospital!" cried Villa Kennan, two days later, as she came out on the broad sleeping-porch and regarded Harley and Jerry stretched out, the one with his leg in
splints, the other with his leg in a plaster cast.
with my own hand, which, as you will gather, was not very badly wounded; it was simply this third finger that was split and in
splints; and next morning the doctor packed me off on a bovine beast that would have done for an ambulance.
In the present game, the object hidden, or the cache as it is called by the trappers, is a small
splint of wood, or other diminutive article that may be concealed in the closed hand.
Then, looking up and down the cudgel, he said, "Now, I have in my hand but a
splint of wood--a barley straw, as it were--yet I trow it will have to serve me, so here goeth." Thereupon he cast the cudgel upon the stand and, leaping lightly after it, snatched it up in his hand again.