by Erinaceous
I really can't wait for the next installment. This is a great story.
Come on, its more than a month now.... We need another installment of the story
I really am looking forward to the next chapter, and to see if we head to the herder encampment or pop back to the woodlanders for a short time. I am wondering if the herders will try to keep Ezra even after his time with them would be up, but time will tell.
Thanks for all the comments and appreciation.
Sorry chapter 10 took so long.
A lot going on, fast moving changes and some really interesting characters.
I'm going to be sad when I catch up!
Jason
Never having heard nor read the phrase "spit and image", only "spitting image", I thought perhaps it was another 'Midwesternism' until I Googled the phrase and found pages which said that the phrase was originally "spit and image", but morphed over time into "spitting image" more than a century ago:
http://grammarist.com/usage/spitting-image/
Live and learn, eh?
Rei,
Thanks for the comment and the link.
Apart from a satirical TV show called 'Spitting Image', which I think got it wrong on purpose, I always heard the expression as 'spit and image', which makes sense to me. I always assumed the word 'spit' meant 'likeness'.
I can't find a convincing etymology of the word 'spit' in the sense of likeness. The link says the phrase comes from the Bible, where God made Adam in His image using spit and clay. The problem is it's not true (I mean Biblically, even less so biologically, of course). I have no idea why the word 'spit' means likeness.
So thanks for that. I also live and learn.
Erinaceous.
"If this is the best they have you'll be running the planet inside of another year" Taylor, Charlton Heston. Name the movie this is from. That's a nice bit of work Ez. The riders will never willing let you go. Men were born to rule them. Haha.
So you want illustrations, Rebbeca did some work for Silkstocking lover here in illustrated stories. The older simple drawing of women are some I can't get out of my mind. So who rules who.
Thanks"(!)"