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"As I walked along in the mire, I felt that I was sinking, and caught hold of a t-tree and pulled myself out, but left my shoes behind. Then I kept close to the edge of the swamp, and went along carefully, t-till I got near the breastwork. "I heard the sentinel c-coming my way, and lay down till he t-turned and walked away from me.
Then I heard Zab, and knew that he was c-coming toward me. I got ready and saw the fox creeping down the g-gully, and he did just as you said he would. When he got to the wall he p-put his fore paws upon it, p-pricked up his ears, and moved them forward and back as he listened for Zab, and I f-fired. I aimed at his b-b-breast and p-put two b-buckshot in his breast and one in his neck."
Be calm, child; let me see whether I cannot remedy your sad imprudence; and, that I may, pray tell me the whole truth. How did this come about?" In reply to this question, which she somewhat mistook, Julia sobbed out, "He met me c-coming out of the school, and asked to s-see me home. I said 'No thank you, because I th-thought of your warning.
"I've got all that's c-coming to me," he said hoarsely; "I'm all in all in! God! but I've got the jumps this trip. You'll stand for this, won't you, Plank? I was batty, but I woke up in time to grasp the live wire Billy Fleetwood held three shocks in succession and his were queens full to my jacks aces to kings twice! Alderdene and Voucher sitting in until they'd started me off hiking hellward!"
"Rats!" remarked Spike. But he shifted the course, just the same. We drew away from the strange yacht for about three minutes, and then, "Sh-She's c-coming about!" shouted Spook. She certainly was coming about. In a few seconds she was headed for us once again. "I d-don't know about you f-fellows, b-but I'll never b-be t-taken alive.
In the wild chase after the prize, Pemrose made a good third, as she thus shouted her fear. "See oh! see, it is landing," she cried again, "c-coming down touching earth." Yes! for one fleeting instant it did alight upon a mound, the shooting starlet, the little electric dry cell, winking brilliantly against the background of somber evergreens, now dark as Erebus, that girdle old Greylock's crown.
I'll show you that I'm not one to bow my neck to the insults of a money-holder. I'll carry out anything you say." "Bravo! my boy; you've got the right kind of spirit in you; that's what I like to see you're a man of pluck." "About when do you think you'll have this grand plot ready for me, eh?" "The first dark night." "You'll consult the clerk of the we-weather as to when that is c-coming, eh?"
"Where's my namesake? The pretty one just c-coming, with the ugly driver? Why, he's Sandy's friend, isn't he?" Sandy winced under her teasing, but he held his peace. The first heat Nettie won; the second, the sorrel; the third brought the grand stand to its feet. Even the revolving procession halted breathless. "Now they're off!" cried Annette, excitedly. "Mercy, how they g-go!
There was a pause, and then Spook said: "B-But it said in the p-papers that you were c-coming East in the fall t-t-to take a p-p-post-g-graduate c-course at " "That's so. But I wanted to earn a little money too, so I promised Mr. Kidd to come to Big Duck Island and tutor his sons for a month, in Latin and English. And when I saw him yesterday, he told me I must catch the sons.
"I w-was c-coming up with s-some t-tea for you and and th-there I s-saw another man," he jerked out, overcome by the pathos of it. "I th-threw it overboard." "But supposing there had been sixteen men, why shouldn't I talk to them?" "I d-don't w-want you to. I w-wanted to talk to you." "Well!" She could find nothing else to say in her astonishment.
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