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"Henry, help me off with these hatches." He was down on his knees with the boy unfastening them, while the mate, having lit a lantern, ran forward to rouse the men. The Frolic was now but twenty yards astern. "Ahoy! schooner, ahoy!" bawled Wilson, running suddenly to the side. "Halloa!" came a hoarse voice. "Are you full up?" shouted the master of the Seamew. "No," came the roar again.
The young stock swept past the watching party from Mountain Camp, their pace rapid in spite of the hard going. They kept to the snow-covered road, however. Behind them came half a dozen men, wind-spent already and not a little angry. "Why didn't you stop 'em?" bawled one red-faced fellow. "If they spread out in some open pasture we'll be all day gathering them."
But the thing had to be gone through now. Perhaps, after all . . . "In the middle," bawled Horrocks, "temperature near a thousand degrees. If you were dropped into it . . . . flash into flame like a pinch of gunpowder in a candle. Put your hand out and feel the heat of his breath. Why, even up here I've seen the rain-water boiling off the trucks. And that cone there.
"We have forgotten to show Bob the baby!" "Merciful heavens!" bawled Robert. "A baby? This is the first time I've heard anything about a baby," looking with renewed interest at the young mother. "Do you mean to tell me, John Warburton, that you failed to mention the fact in any of your letters?" indignantly demanded Mrs. John. "Why er didn't I mention it?" asked the perturbed father.
For though he bawled for the landlord it was in a weak, hoarse voice, which did not reach beyond the door. Misset looked at him with sympathy. "You have no doubt come far," said he; "and the landlord's a laggard. Here's something that may comfort you till he comes;" and he filled a glass half full with red Tyrol wine from the bottle at his elbow. The man thanked him and advanced to the table.
Soon he heard voices. Again the calf bawled in fright and pain, and the familiar odor of burning hair was carried to him on the breeze. Someone was branding a calf. It might be all right it might not. Patches was unarmed, but, with characteristic disregard of consequences, he crept softly forward, toward a dense growth of trees and brush, from beyond which the noise and the smoke seemed to come.
"Five shillings," cried the Persian "four shillings." "Ninepence," I replied, and moved farther away. "Two shillings." He bawled something more, inaudibly, but I was already out of hearing. I happened to repass his stall accidentally later in the morning. "That kerosinka," said the Persian "take it; it is yours at one shilling and sixpence."
Captain Bulsted bowed. 'The last word to you, squire. The squire nodded. 'I 'll hand it to your wife, William. Julia took it graciously. 'A perfect gentleman! perfect! confound his enemies! 'Why, ma'am, you might keep from swearing, the squire bawled. 'La! squire, said she, 'why, don't you know the National Anthem?
As I came up the ladder I saw against the flushed sky for the sun was just rising the broad back and red hair of the captain, and over his shoulder the puma spinning from a tackle rigged on to the mizzen spanker-boom. The poor brute seemed horribly scared, and crouched in the bottom of its little cage. "Overboard with 'em!" bawled the captain. "Overboard with 'em!
Fuzzy wriggled himself into an ingratiatory attitude and essayed the idiotic smile and blattering small talk that is supposed to charm the budding intellect of the young. The Child bawled, and was dragged away, hugging her Betsy close. There came the Secretary, pale, poised, polished, gliding in pumps, and worshipping pomp and ceremony.
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