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"Do tell your story, Miss!" and Heavy yawned monstrously. "How dare you yawn before 'taps'?" cried Belle. "I'll douse the water-pitcher over you, Jennie." At this threat the fat girl sat up promptly and again urged Lluella to continue her tale.
Pedlar, yet to ask her to put a rope round her neck and douse her light for evermore, married to a man she couldn't love, be a thought out of reason in my view." And Mrs. Cobley said perhaps it might be. There was a fortnight to run yet before Nicholas Bewes launched his thunderbolt on Mrs.
They put me in prison like a criminal. They took her. Oh, misery!" Here the manuscript stopped. And as I suddenly raised my astonished eyes to the doctor a terrific cry, a howl of impotent rage and of exasperated longing resounded through the asylum. "Listen," said the doctor. "We have to douse the obscene madman with water five times a day.
This time he was not roused; a plot had been arranged, and forthwith a large bucket of water was taken below and thrown at him. He only shook himself, and murmured: "She's the dirtiest beast that ever I was aboard of." The second douse was flung quickly; he became confused, rushed into the captain's berth, believing he was making his way on deck.
I was determined, if ever he undertook such a demonstration of authority as that, to resent it with the true spirit of a Californian, and cast about me for some weapon of personal defense, but saw nothing likely to be available in an emergency of that kind except a small bucket of slush, with which, however, it would be practicable to "douse his glim."
I saw some of these young men from the country, with their sweethearts, leaning over the stone parapet, and looking into the pit of the bear-garden, where the city bears walk round, or sit on their hind legs for bits of bread thrown to them, or douse themselves in the tanks, or climb the dead trees set up for their gambols.
"And tell Johnson to douse him with a few buckets of salt water," he added, in a lower tone for my ear alone. I left Mr. Mugridge on deck, in the hands of a couple of grinning sailors who had been told off for the purpose. Mr. Mugridge was sleepily spluttering that he was a gentleman's son.
"Why, we're the very best of fellows, and the very fastest friends! Come, all to the old Three Lions inn, and douse a can of brown March brew at my expense. To the Queen, to good fair play, and to all the fine fellows in Albans town!"
O Christ! to think of the green navies and the green-skulled crews! Well, well; belike the whole world's a ball, as you scholars have it; and so 'tis right to make one ballroom of it. Dance on, lads, you're young; I was once. Spell oh! whew! this is worse than pulling after whales in a calm give us a whiff, Tash. By Brahma! boys, it'll be douse sail soon.
The way is, to smear it on their sides, and they lick it off. A good idea, isn't it? Here we are at the hen douse, or rather one of the hen houses." "Don't you keep your hens all together?" asked Miss Laura. "Only in the winter time," said Mrs. Wood, "I divide my flock in the spring.
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