This they did; the bars were then put in their places and securely lashed.

Four men went to the ends of the poles and lifted the cage upon their shoulders; two others took their places beside it, and one man, apparently the leader of the party, walked on ahead; the rest remained behind.
"I never quite realized what a fowl felt in a coop before," Jack said, "but if its sensations are at all like mine they must be decidedly unpleasant.

It isn't high enough to sit upright in, it is nothing like long enough to lie down, and as to getting out one might as well think of flying.

Do you know, Percy, I don't think they mean taking us to Canton at all.

I did not think of it before, but from the direction of the sun I feel sure that we cannot have been going that way.