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It was shored up with tamarac poles and when the camp was abandoned Paul pulled up this cribbing. Travelers who have visited the spot say that the sand has blown away until 178 feet of the well is sticking up into the air, forming a striking landmark. The Winter of the Deep Snow everything was buried. Paul had to dig down to find the tops of the tallest White Pines.
Mansell looked at his watch repeatedly; but suddenly he came to an unexpected question. He endeavoured to extract an answer from the man on his right. Claremont spotted him. "Well, Mansell, if I ask you if you are cribbing, I know you will deny it, and I don't want you to tell me a lie; but I must beg of you not to talk quite so loudly." Any ordinary master would have torn up the boy's paper.
And beckoning very quietly to two brawny fellows, in a trice Israel found himself kidnapped into the naval service of the magnanimous old gentleman of Kew Gardens his Royal Majesty, George III. "Hands off!" said Israel, fiercely, as the two men pinioned him. "Reglar game-cock," said the cousinly-looking man. "I must get three guineas for cribbing him.
"We thought perhaps you'd gone back to New York and left us to starve to death." "Well, you didn't starve, did you?" asked Elmer. "Wow, wow, wow!" yelled Jimmie. "Now, what is it?" asked Elmer. "Rats!" yelled the boy. "Millions of rats! They're creeping out by the regiment from the cribbing where we were hidden!"
When he turned toward him Bannon saw that he had that morning played an unconscious joke upon his bright red hair by putting on a crimson necktie. Bannon asked for Peterson. "He's up on the framing of the spouting house, over on the wharf there." "What are you carrying that stuff around for?" asked Bannon. "Moving it back to make room by the siding. We're expecting a big bill of cribbing.
I know I wildly confessed my sins my "cribbing," my wasting of time and promised to abjure them one and all. The doctor was solemn and grave, and said a great deal to me that I was too overawed to understand or remember; after which I was sent back to my class a punished, disgraced, and marked boy.
The daily life of a Sixth Form master at a big public school does not afford much scope for the practice of the detective art, but Mr Thompson had once detected a piece of cribbing, when correcting some Latin proses for the master of the Lower Third, solely by the exercise of his powers of observation, and he had never forgotten it.
"Dick, do you think either of the girls would go back on you, just because a lot of raw, half-baked cadets have got you sized up wrong? Is that all the faith you have in your friends? And, especially, such a friend as Laura Bentley? Was that the way she acted when you were under charges of cribbing? You were in disgrace, then, weren't you?
We were immediately under the eyes of the senior chaplain of the trio forming the board of examiners, a gentleman whose position at the centre of the cross table at the top of the room enabled him to command a full view of the double line of boys and detect at once any attempt at cribbing or unfair assistance given by one to the other; and our ordeal began punctually on the ship's bell striking Ten o'clock, dictation being the first subject set us "to test our spelling and handwriting," as my Lords of the Admiralty were good enough to inform us.
I hadn't got to Ledyard before I saw a string of empties on a siding that weren't doing a thing but waiting for our cribbing, so I caught a train to Blake City and gave the Division Superintendent some points on running railroads. He was a nice, friendly man." Bannon clasped his hands about one knee and smiled reminiscently "I had him pretty busy there for a while thinking up lies.
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