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Here, too, was the secret depository of his cherished spying-glasses and of another equally marvellous but unfortunately valueless piece of mechanism a revolver of large caliber. The weapon was in perfect order, for its former owner had been careful to keep it well cleaned and oiled; an absurd whim, of course, since without its ammunition it was useless.
And yet, forty-eight hours before, this town, if it was like every other Belgian town, must have been as clean as clean could be. When the Belgian peasant housewife has cleaned the inside of her house she issues forth with bucket and scrubbing brush and washes the outside of it and even the pavement in front and the cobbles of the road.
"Lon and I had saved his life as well as his personal property, he was good enough to say, and he showed us this treasure chest and what was in it. When he passed on, he said, it should be ours if we were fixed so we could get it before the Mexican authorities stepped in and grabbed it all, or before bandits cleaned out the hacienda.
He could stay but a minute, for the smoke almost strangled him. Then Whopper and Giant went in and made certain the fire was out. Soon the smoke commenced to clear away; and the momentary excitement was over. "Now, what does this mean?" demanded Snap, and his voice was full of anger. "It means that we have been cleaned out," answered the doctor's son, after a hasty glance around. "Look!"
"A blackguard!" he cried haughtily. "That's why our boots are not half cleaned. How dare he! The dirty, contemptible scrub! The Doctor ought to be told of this." Slegge stood sniffing and snorting and glaring round fiercely at the worshippers of the two heroes of the hour, who stood flushed and worried, ready to beat a retreat to the dormitory.
Packs were quickly removed and unfolded, dry sticks gathered for the fire, and sweet-scented balsam boughs were cut and brought to the tree. One generous bed was made, big enough for all, close in front of the camp-fire. Mr. Allen cleaned and filled his small acetylene lamp "In case of need," he said. The guns were stacked in a handy place and supper operations gotten under way.
Wardrop. "No good," said the Governor, shaking his head. "No one come buy." "He's taken my lamps, though," said the skipper. He wore one leg of a pair of trousers, and his eye wandered along the verandah. The Governor quailed. There were cuddy camp-stools and the skipper's writing-table in plain sight. "They've cleaned her out, o' course," said Mr. Wardrop. "They would.
No right-minded Indian would dream of travelling further with such a feast in prospect. While these things were preparing, the older men cleaned and washed the bear's skull very carefully. Then they cut a tall pole, on the end of which they fastened the skull, and finished by planting the whole affair securely near the running water.
Ain't your claims all legal? Has anybody disputed you? Well, get onto yourself, you danged fool!" "Well, all the same," went on Rimrock insistently, "I know what some people will do. I don't name no names, but I've been cleaned out once " "Aw, you make me tired!" snapped back L. W., "you're crazy and what's more you're drunk!
On the other hand it is only right that, just as we wash a vessel that is to hold good liquor, he who knows that his words will be at once useful and agreeable should cleanse his mouth as a prelude to speech. But why should I speak further of man? Even the crocodile, the monster of the Nile so they tell me opens his jaws in all innocence, that his teeth may be cleaned.
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