Together, therefore, they proceeded directly thither; but not so fast as Mr Jones desired; for his guide unfortunately happened to be
lame, and could not possibly travel faster than a mile an hour.
And then, in proportion as he plunged deeper into the street, cripples in bowls, blind men and
lame men, swarmed about him, and men with one arm, and with one eye, and the leprous with their sores, some emerging from little streets adjacent, some from the air-holes of cellars, howling, bellowing, yelping, all limping and halting, all flinging themselves towards the light, and humped up in the mire, like snails after a shower.
He had a cow with a calf too, and an old
lame horse-twenty-five years of age--and chickens, and pigeons, and two lambs, and many other animals.
"Why, she is
lame," said the Chevalier de Lorraine, stretching himself on his cushions.
She was a weak and passionate woman, and sometimes she petted and spoiled her little boy, sometimes she treated him cruelly, calling him "a
lame brat," than which nothing could hurt him more, for poor little George was born
lame, and all his life long he felt sore and angry about it.
Ingenious in little artifices, they wait for those whose knowledge walketh on
lame feet,--like spiders do they wait.
"That tiger limps because he was born
lame, as everyone knows.
One board had written upon it, "I am blind," another, "I am deaf," another, "I am dumb," and the fourth, "Pity the
lame one." But although all these troubles written upon the boards seemed so grievous, the four stout fellows sat around feasting as merrily as though Cain's wife had never opened the pottle that held misfortunes and let them forth like a cloud of flies to pester us.
