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"I suppose you thought it wise to give me a strong dose of all this at the start?" he inquired humorously, holding his nose and glancing from the pigs at the door to the crawlers on the wall. "A strong dose!" laughed Mr. Ritchie. "Not a bit of it, young man. Wait till you've had some experience of the luxuries of Formosan inns.
Well, they have also got the road now, and cover and blind and choke us with its dust and insolently hoot-hoot at us. Out of the way, miserable crawlers, if you don't want to be smashed! Sometimes the way is cut off by huge thorny hedges and fences of barbed wire man's devilish improvement on the bramble brought down to the water's edge.
Mary Ann hurried them on, declaring that they might be too late even now at a couple of dozen paces distant, seeing that London cabs, crawlers as they usually were, could, when required, and paid for it, do their business like lightning.
Never before were there seen such exquisite little crawlers. But now a sad thing happened. They were so beautiful that many creatures became their enemies, and began to kill them and eat them one after another. They crawled as fast as they could, and hid away, but many of them were killed by birds and beasts of prey, as well as by big fierce insects.
"Fine, fine. Got four likely children three boys and a girl baby that gave 'er first yell just a month ago. That pair has struck a lively lick hatchin' 'em out, but it is exactly what they like they say they want just as many crawlers under foot as they can step over without stumblin'." "And you, yourself " Mostyn hesitated. "Have you " "Oh, me?" Webb's freckled face reddened. "Not on your life.
Then he fired up and gasped and choked once or twice; and then he cooled down suddenly and laughed his nastiest laugh he was one of those men who always laugh when they're wild and said in a nasty, quiet tone: "You thundering, jumped-up crawlers! "Well, the sooner you begin the better," I said; and I chucked the boot into a corner and bolted.
Each fellow might watch his mates, and see that no one lagged behind. Bobolink was quivering with eagerness and excitement. He figured that these night crawlers had only five more feet to cover before they would be as close to his "dead line" as prudence would dictate that he allow, since it might require only a single sweep of the knife to cut that rope.
Mary Ann hurried them on, declaring that they might be too late even now at a couple of dozen paces distant, seeing that London cabs, crawlers as they usually were, could, when required, and paid for it, do their business like lightning.
Just a gray waste, probably full of crawlers like the others. "We circled back over the city; say, I want to tell you that place was well, gigantic! It was colossal; at first I thought the size was due to that illusion I spoke of you know, the nearness of the horizon but it wasn't that. We sailed right over it, and you've never seen anything like it! "But the sun dropped out of sight right then.
Quick!" he demanded. "Coglin, John." "Spears, Albert." "Duke, Phineas." "You call those names?" Roger snorted incredulously. "Which of you ground crawlers is radar officer?" "I am, very well," replied Spears. The blond-haired cadet stared at him in amazement. "Very well, what?" he demanded. "You said that's the correct form of address," replied Spears doggedly. Roger turned to Tom.
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