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'If, by any wabbling of the rack, the pressure were to be suddenly relieved, the gas from one bag might be sucked into the other, with the result of a disastrous explosion." We stood regarding each other in dumb horror. Mackellar was deathly pale. "Let me off, boys," he pleaded faintly. "I've got to go to the station to turn out the men." He made a motion to climb down.
"'That will suit me all right, old sport, retorted Val Verde; 'and when you want any one to help you count your fat cattle, get some of the other boys one that'll let you doubt his count as you have mine, and if he admires you for it, cut my wages in two.
It doesn't concern me, to be sure; but I have the utmost pity for a man who is content to live all his life shut in between brick walls. To undertake to bring up a family of boys and girls where all the blessed freedom of out-door life is denied them, is worse than pitiful, it's heathenish.
She could have avoided the disillusion by recognizing early enough that the interests and instincts of her boys were healthy ones, notwithstanding they were so different from her own.
The boat, unable to reach the shore on account of the flatness of the beach, stuck fast about a bow-shot from dry land, and the men and boys at once tumbled over the edge and prepared to carry not only the luggage, but the female passengers ashore.
"Are you ?" she questioned, hesitating strangely. "Are you the White Horse Chaplain?" "The boys called me that," said the Bishop. "Though it was only a name for a day," he added. "It was true, then?" she said slowly, as if still unready to believe.
Some boys think they are exhibiting a manliness of character if they tease and torment those who are unable to protect themselves, instead of which they are doing just about as mean a thing as boys can do. What is the use of possessing strength if we exercise it in oppressing others?
The observer who was to go up in it was standing near, and seeing the interest the boys took in the process, he bestowed a friendly grin on them. "Thinking of going into the business?" he inquired gaily. "Don't know but what I might some day," replied Frank, in the same vein. "What are the inducements?"
Gi' me one ha'penny!" interrupted the sonnet, Angelina threw out some money to the boys, though she was provoked by their interruption: her donation was, in the true spirit of a heroine, much greater than the occasion required and the consequence was, that these urchins, by spreading the fame of her generosity through the town of Cardiffe, collected a Lilliputian mob of petitioners, who assailed Angelina with fresh vehemence.
Then after awhile my activities began to sprout and branch out, and the direction they took was boys.
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