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"The filthy, unsportsmanly, dog-eating Prussian swine! They're turning MACHINE-GUNS on him!" In place of the intermittent rattle of rifleshots now came the purring cough of rapidfire guns. The bullets hit the upper hillside in swathes, beginning a few yards behind the flying collie and moving upward toward him like a sweeping of an unseen scythe. "That's the wind-up!" groaned Mahan.
Tapa my bowels are filled with the sea for one dollar! Hast plenty tobacco on board, friends of my heart? Apa, the surf! Not a canoe crew could the white man get to face it. Is it good twist tobacco, friends, or the flat cakes? Know that I am a man of Nanomea, not one of these dog-eating people here, and a strong swimmer, else the letter had not come." The supercargo took the note.
The first four of these are known as Tagalog provinces; the fifth is inhabited by Ilocanos and Pampangans. Three dialects or languages are spoken by the tribes in the territory covered. Not far beyond Daguban are savage dog-eating, head-hunting tribes; taos, or peasants, buy dogs around Daguban and sell to these savages at good profits.
A genuinely humorous woman is the German skipper's wife in Falk, and the niece, the heroine who turns the head of the former cannibal of Falk this an echo, doubtless, from the anecdote of the dog-eating granduncle B of the Reminiscences is heroic in her way. Funniest of all is the captain himself. Falk is almost a tragic figure.
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