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Knowing that Timothy was stingy, Peter thought that the old gentleman would soon change his mind about "doing something handsome" for him. "No!" Timothy Turtle declared. "I want to wait a while and think it over." "Well, then," Peter Mink urged him, "why don't you crawl under that shelving rock and think it over right now?" "You ask too many questions," Mr. Turtle told him.
It was, that by taking that direction, I should arrive the sooner at the top of all the packages; and once there, I might find a vacant space between them and the timbers of the deck, through which I could crawl at once to the hatchway. This would give me less tunnelling to do, since the vertical line would be shorter than that passing diagonally to the hatch.
Next he managed to stagger and crawl toward the near-by jungle, where he had seen evidences of profusion of tropical fruit. His former experience in the jungle of Tarzan of the Apes had taught him which of the many growing things were edible, and after nearly an hour of absence he returned to the beach with a little armful of food.
Darkness soon came on, and as all seemed quiet they ventured to roll back the stone and crawl out.
The prisoners were covered with sores, produced by severe beatings; one was already dead, and the rats, but I cannot go further in description. The others could hardly crawl, they were so emaciated, and my conviction is that they were shut in there to die. The prison authorities stated that they had escaped at the time of the bombardment for which they had been punished as we saw.
And thus it fell out that, at the instant he was thinking it time to begin to crawl and hunt, his stockinged feet came into contact with something heavy, yielding, warm something that moved, moaned, and caused his hair to bristle and his flesh to creep.
Other hansoms flashed past him, the occupant of each with his mind fixed on one idea dinner. He was one of a million of people who were about to dine, or who had dined, or who were deep in dining. He was so famished, so weak for food of any quality, that the galloping horse in the hansom seemed to crawl.
"Well, I've said he sha'n't an', by God " Pitman started toward the house, but Henley sprang up and faced him. Laying his hand heavily on the farmer's shoulder he cried almost with a hiss of fury: "Let that doctor alone, you dirty whelp! He's going to crawl up that ladder to that hole under the roof to see that boy. You and me are nigh the same size, and we can settle right here.
She'd crawl through a barbed wire fence if she couldn't get at it any other way. She always chews a pill on principle, and then she calls it a dispensation of Providence, and wonders why she was ever born to be tormented." "In that case," laughed Maxwell, "I'd better get some medical books and read up on symptoms. By the by, is there any particular program for this missionary meeting, Mrs. Burke?"
Not long ago a lieutenant was attacked on that very road, and almost beaten to death. He managed to crawl back to barracks, and is now a wreck, incapacitated from further service. By a miracle he was able to identify one of his assailants. They gave him what do you think? two years' imprisonment! Why not the Legion d'Honneur while we are about it?
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