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"A nice, fat little feller," rapturously exclaimed Captain Tonkins, taking the proffered jug. Placing it in the bottom of the sleigh, where such of the public as were stirring in that vicinity could not see the operation, he half filled the tin dipper, and, raising it suddenly to his mouth, drank the contents with a double gulp. "Prime stuff, that," said the Captain, smacking his lips.
The light was still uncertain, but the dipper was a bright, clear target. Conniston waited a moment, his teeth hard set, hardly breathing. Then, as the man lowered the dipper from his face and held it out invitingly over the heads of the men on the ground, he fired. The bullet crashed through the tin thing, hurling it into the crowd.
A man had entered the room with a bucket of water in either hand. Another followed with a third bucket. They were laid beside the wooden horse. The second man had a wooden dipper a bowl with a straight handle in his other hand. This he gave to the man in black.
Peace disappeared down the creaking stairs again, returning quickly with a dripping dipper full of sparkling, ice-cold water from the well, and the sick child drank feverishly, sighing as she relinquished the cup, "That's awful good. If only it would stay cold all the time!
Some old Buck would show the youngsters the Pleiades them's the little stars that the Injuns call the Bunch an' ask 'How many kin you see? Some could sho'ly see five or six an' some could make out seven. Them as sees seven is mighty well off for eyes. Ye can't see the Pleiades now they belong to the winter nights; but you kin see the Dipper the hull year round, turning about the North Star.
"I think that Rollo's giving Henry the dipper, with the fish in it, was clearly a bailment of the fish; that is, it was an intrusting of his property to Henry's care. It is clear also that Henry took pretty good care of it. He tried to avoid losing it. He took as much care of it, perhaps, as he would have done of a fish of his own. Still, he did not take very extraordinary or special care of it.
But Rollo was very far from being convinced that he ought to give back the dipper then. He had borrowed it, he said, for the whole expedition, and he had a right to keep it till he got home. Besides, he had a fish in it, and there was nothing that he could do with him, if Henry took away the dipper. But Henry said he did not think of catching a little fish in his dipper, when he lent it to Rollo.
Only a little while back, when I was riding and suffering, what a heaven this peace, this rest, this sweet serenity in this secluded shady nook by this purling stream would have seemed, where I could keep perfectly comfortable all the time by pouring a dipper of water into my armor now and then; yet already I was getting dissatisfied; partly because I could not light my pipe for, although I had long ago started a match factory, I had forgotten to bring matches with me and partly because we had nothing to eat.
Offer some other inducement, O'mie," Marjie replied laughingly. "Oh, well, Tillhurst'll be there, and one or two of the new folks, all eligible." "What makes you call me 'Star-face'? That's what Jean Pahusca used to call me." She shivered. "Oh, it fits you; but if you object, I can make it, 'Moon-face, or 'Sun-up." "Or 'Skylight, or 'Big Dipper'; so you can keep to the blue firmament.
Unquestionably in her niece's calm assurance there was no hint of the dependent. As she stood serenely in the center of the room, Lucy's gaze wandered over her aunt's shoulder and composedly scanned every detail of the kitchen, traveling from ceiling to floor, examining the spotless shelves, the primly arranged pots and pans, the gleaming tin dipper above the sink.
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