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In their utter astonishment and dread the Indians had to a man sprung out of the canoe, overturning it in the act, and were swimming and diving their best to reach the shelter of the hanging boughs, while their frail vessel was floating bottom upward rapidly down the stream. "Good aim, Dellow," cried the captain. "Well fired, squire."
All his sensations were dreamlike but he felt that headachy exhaustion that comes of overwork too long continued. "I'll try," he said tiredly, "to see that you have some fun before you go back, Babs. You'll go back as soon as we dive off into whatever we're diving into, but you ought to get in the regular tourist stuff up here, anyhow." Babs said nothing. Pointedly.
Accordingly, when they had fairly settled down to the meal that evening, Sir Reginald called upon the scientist for his suggestion or proposal. "I must preface it," said von Schalckenberg, "by informing you that I have again been diving into my lamented friend's note-book, which I may say en passant is the most remarkable volume I have ever come across.
"They will not let go until they discover that they cannot devour us, and it may take days. We can only remain under water a comparatively short time at the most. So you see where the danger is." "But can't we go out and kill them? Then they would let go." "It would be most risky to venture out, protected even with a diving suit, and carrying the electric guns," the professor went on.
"I don't know, oh, I don't know!" moaned the woman on the bed, diving into the pillows and hugging them close to her head. "We we might give up selling he said we could if we wanted to." "But there's Ralph!" "I know it. Oh, dear what can we do?" Rachel suddenly sat upright. "Do? Why, we'll stand it, of course.
As I approached nearer and nearer they frequently made their peculiar noise, which is a low abrupt grunt, not having much actual sound, but rather arising from the sudden expulsion of air: the only noise I know at all like it, is the first hoarse bark of a large dog. After diving a short distance they came again to the surface, but only just showed the upper part of their heads.
Somewhere among the 'small hours' of the night he awoke suddenly, recollecting something. 'I have it, cried Sturk, with an oath, and an involuntary kick at the foot-board, that made his slumbering helpmate bounce. 'What is it, Barney, dear? squalled she, diving under the bed-clothes, with her heart in her mouth. 'It's like a revelation, cried Sturk, with another oath; and that was all Mrs.
This pert little winter wren, for instance, darting in and out the fence, diving under the rubbish here and coming up yards away, how does he manage with those little circular wings to compass degrees and zones, and arrive always in the nick of time?
While thus engaged, he, as usual, watched and listened. The spot was dangerous for him because of its distance from the stream, and because the water immediately beyond was so shallow that he could not, by diving, readily escape from determined pursuit. His meal was often interrupted for a few moments by some trifling incident that caused alarm.
"I might as well begin at once, and give the child something new to think about, for Myra's dismals and Jane's lectures have made her as blue as a little indigo bag." Diving into one of the trunks that stood in a corner, he brought up, after a brisk rummage, a silken cushion, prettily embroidered, and a quaint cup of dark carved wood.
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