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What! a hero like Theseus afraid, Not had the Minotaur had twenty bull-heads instead of one. Bold as he was, however, I rather fancy that it strengthened his valiant heart, just at this crisis, to feel a tremulous twitch at the silken cord, which he was still holding in his left hand.
They had brought their supper with them, and leaving the others to watch the fires, and see that the grass did not tempt the flames to the edge of the wood, Hiram cast bait into the river and, in an hour, drew out enough mullet and "bull-heads" to satisfy them all, when they were broiled over the hot coals of the first bonfire to be lighted. They ate with much enjoyment.
Do not rush to the legislature with a demand for a law to permit the taking of bull-heads with June-bugs in the creeks of your township, or to give your county a specially early open season on quail in order that your boy may try his new gun before he goes back to college.
Sturk, and had a few pleasant words with her, patting the bull-heads of the children, and went down stairs smiling and nodding; and Mrs. Sturk popped quietly into the study, and found her husband leaning on the chimney piece, and swabbing his face with his handkerchief strangely pale and looking, as the good lady afterwards said, for all the world as if he had seen a ghost.
"The horse gets the odd one, of course." "A horse won't eat fish," Holmes retorted. "Didn't you ever see a horse eat fish?" Tom challenged. "I never did." "Well, I don't know that I ever did, either," Reade admitted. "So we'll give the odd one to Danny Grin." "Maybe we'll be glad to," laughed Dave. "I'm not sure that all these bull-heads were alive when Dalzell picked them up."
Why, him and I have bummed around together, and worked on farms, summers, and fished for bull-heads Ever catch a bull-head? Damnedest slipperiest fish you ever saw, and got horns that sting the stuffin's out of you and Say, I wonder if Milt's told you about the time we had at a barn-dance once?
"We haven't had any fish, either, since we returned from our trip to the second lake." "How do you cook bull-heads?" Dave wondered aloud. "With the aid of fire," Hazy informed him with an air of superior knowledge. "But I mean -I mean " uttered Darry disgustedly, "how do you prepare bull-heads for cooking?" "First of all, you clean 'em, as in the case of any other fish," proclaimed Tom Reade.
It does not seem to thrive in Tahoe though the boatmen tell me they occasionally see a few, especially off the docks at Tallac and other points at the south end of the Lake. Now and again small bull-heads will be seen, and a very small rock-bass. But these never bite on hook and line, and are seldom found more than two or three inches long.
Before this irreverence could be replied to Bigpig Monahan advanced. "Look here, old horse," he said; "I don't know whether you're captain or mate, or owner or cook; and I don't care, either. You had somethin' to say 'bout my eyes just now. Nature made my eyes, and I can't help how they look; but I don't allow any big bull-heads to make remarks 'bout 'em.
More quarrelsome than the Bull-heads, and howl much louder. I am called to attend one of the princesses. Evident partiality of H. R. H. for me. Jealousy and rage of large red-headed Gorilla. How shall I escape? Ay, how indeed? Do you wish to know? Is your curiosity excited? Well, I DO know how I escaped. I could tell the most extraordinary adventures that happened to me.
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