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He hastened to Mr. Butts and linked his arm in the seaman's, drawing him away. "There's only two of us. We can't hurt you. We don't want to hurt you. But if you stay among that bunch they'll have your liver, lights, and your heart's blood." Five minutes later the Ward camp was posted on a distant pinnacle of the island.
He rummaged among the klipsie butts in the back part of the hut until he got one to suit him, and then without any hesitation led the way a few hundred yards distant from the hut where, parting the grass, he disclosed the cache or hiding-place where the owners of the klipsies had secreted the traps; they, in their cunning, not wishing to leave the entire trap in the possession of any stranger who might come to the house.
The movement became general, and Lyman, seeing the spirit of his men, gave the word, and the whole of the troops, with a shout, leaped up and dashed through the wood against the enemy, falling upon them with their hatchets and the butts of their guns. The French and their allies instantly fled.
Now, owing to the number of empty butts in the hold, there would have been, perhaps, but small danger of the vessel's sinking outright all awash as her decks would soon be were it not, that many of her timbers were of a native wood, which, like the Teak of India, is specifically heavier than water. This, with the pearl shells on board, counteracted the buoyancy of the casks.
It is impossible to do the latest ducks and hooks taught you by the instructor if your antagonist butts you in the chest, and then kicks your shins, while some dear friend of his, of whose presence you had no idea, hits you at the same time on the back of the head. The greatest expert would lose his science in such circumstances.
"And to save your soul and body, I'd maybe tell a worse lie than that, at need. I am but a woman, Ah, well, it is but two butts' length from here at any rate." "Without a lie?" "Humph! Three, without a lie." And sure enough, in a few minutes they came up to the manse. A candle was burning in the vicar's parlour. "She is waking still," whispered Margaret.
"I'll get the groom sent round in a moment," he explained, and to the butler who opened the door, "Miss Sally is expecting me, eh, Butts?" "In the yellow drawing-room, y'r worship." The Parson was a magistrate, and, for no known reason, Butts always addressed him as such. "Very well, I'll find my way to her.
The handles of tomahawks, the hafts of knives, and the shining butts of pistols, peeped carelessly out from the dresses both of hunters and Indians. There was little effort made to conceal these dangerous toys, and they were on all sides visible. At length our mutual reconnaissance came to a period, and we proceeded to business.
It was as if the whistling man had disappeared at the place where the rain swallowed his form, and had taken body again at their very side. Mac Strann shrank back against the wall, bracing his shoulders, and gripped the butts of his guns.
"You know what Butts done to Jack McQuestion. You ain't forgot how he sneaked Jack's watch!" The incident was historic. Every eye on Butts. Charlie caught up breath and courage. "An' t'odder night w'en Maudie treat me like she done" he shot a blazing glance at the double-dyed traitor "I fixed it up with Butts. Got him to go soft on 'er and nab 'er ring." "You didn't!" shouted Maudie.
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