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When he sees you do that he'll try to bluff you; say you ain't in on it, but you just tell him that don't go, this is an open game and he's got to come through, and the crowd'll back you up. I stuck him one a whole hundred first crack and then he barred me. Watch him." Dave watched.
The occasional crack of a Mauser broke the silence of the advance, keeping the Americans in active touch with the dangers that surrounded them. They found the deserted trenches and signs of recent occupation. The insurgents had been gone from the position less than two hours. Treachery faced the little squad of Americans on every side, but they did not falter.
There was a yell and an oath from the Wowzer the crack of another revolver shot, the hum of the bullet past Jimmie Dale's ear, the scorch of the tongue flame in his face, and he was upon the other.
She reached a bare arm through the crack in the door and took it. The box, the arm, the head disappeared. Presently there was a low cry of delight that thrilled him. The face reappeared. "Oh Freddie!" she exclaimed, radiant. "You must have spent a fortune on them." "No. Twelve thousand that's all. It was a bargain. Go on dressing. We'll talk about it afterward."
The boys clasped each other suddenly, in an agony of fright. "Which of us does he mean?" gasped Huckleberry. "I dono peep through the crack. Quick!" "No, YOU, Tom!" "I can't I can't DO it, Huck!" "Please, Tom. There 'tis again!" "Oh, lordy, I'm thankful!" whispered Tom. "I know his voice. It's Bull Harbison." *
"I'm skipper here, and I'm going to lead. Now, lads, are you all ready?" "Ay, ay," was the reply. "Then I ar'n't," said the gunner. "That crack pretty nigh split my shoulder. Now I am. Close up, and hit hard. We're all right, my lads; they're smugglers, and they hit us fust."
"Happy Birthday, darling!" said her mother, coming in, and sitting on the side of the bed; "many happy returns of the day." "Oh, dearie Mother! I'm so glad I've got you! and I'm so glad you're really my very own mother! Give me thirteen kisses, please, ma'am!" "Merry Birthday, Midget!" called her father, through the crack of the door.
He was like a man who had been through an earthquake, and who stood and stared at a gaping crack in the ground. Even though he was safe at the moment, he could not forget that this was the earth upon which he had to spend the rest of his life, and that the next crack might open where he stood.
Greenhalge could be handled all right, only what was there in it for Greenhalge? a nut difficult for Mr. Jason to crack. The two other members of the School Board were solid. Here again the wisest of men was proved to err, for Mr.
We were both of us capsized in a second, and both of us rolled, almost together, into the scuppers; the dead red-cap, with his arms still spread out, tumbling stiffly after us. So near were we, indeed, that my head came against the coxswain's foot with a crack that made my teeth rattle. Blow and all, I was the first afoot again; for Hands had got involved with the dead body.
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