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The little Dutchman would yell out whenever he would see him 'What for you come? Eh? You tam shneak. Rheumatism, eh? In hip? And the Doctor would punch his shoulder and hip, and pinch his arms and legs until Bill would squirm like an eel under a gig.
"It was no coward's legs or hands, Harry Waakfelt, that drew you out of the fords of Fried, when you was drifting ower the place rock, and every eel in the river expected his share of you." "And that is true enough, too," said the Englishman, struck by the appeal.
'Can't be bovvered, retorted that worthy, as he squirmed into his jacket like an eel, and darted past her. 'I'm as hungry as Wobinson Crusoe, an' I'm goin' to tell mar how you're loiterin'. She followed him sadly. She had forgotten to say her own. 'Fifteen minutes late, said Mrs Harding severely, as she entered the kitchen. 'You'll hev to be extry spry to make up.
She sprang over things as if she had been made expressly to fly. She tumbled off things as if she had been created to fall. She insinuated herself among anchor-flukes and chains as if she had been born an eel. She rolled out from among the folds of sails as if she were a live dumpling.
The man we want is on board this ship, but being only a private detective, I don't possess a warrant for his arrest. Therefore all I can do is to keep him in sight. And I can only do that by throwing him as far as possible off the scent. If he takes me for a card-sharper, all the better. For he's as slippery as an eel, and I have to play him pretty carefully." He ceased.
Just then the eel made a rush first in one direction, then in another, but with a heavy pressure kept up, and the rod bending nearly double. Then it made a rush for the shore, and Mercer raised the point of his rod and stepped back, while I uttered a cry, for the rod had struck me sharply on the ear.
'Deuce take the man! said my aunt, sternly, 'what's he about? Don't be galvanic, sir! 'I ask your pardon, Miss Trotwood, returned Uriah; 'I'm aware you're nervous. 'Go along with you, sir! said my aunt, anything but appeased. 'Don't presume to say so! I am nothing of the sort. If you're an eel, sir, conduct yourself like one. If you're a man, control your limbs, sir!
"Quite sure o't; an' at most three, or may be four hour agone. See thar!" he continued, raising one of the limbs, and letting it drop again; "limber as a eel! Ef he'd a been dead last night, the leg'd been stiff long afore this." "Quite true," replied I, convinced, as was my companion, that the horse had been slaughtered that morning.
"Greenwich Park" was among these drawings, with merrymakers racing and tumbling down the hill, and a delicious perspective of the park and hospital; a "Review of Guards in Hyde Park," where, upon the soldiers firing, two of the spectators' horses have bolted into the crowd; the charming drawing in pencil and colour work of two girls called "The Sirens;" rustic scenes such as "Eel Pie Island at Richmond," "Playing Quoits," and a "Rustic Maid Crossing a Stile," to her sweetheart's admiration; such echoes too of war as the crowd cheering the great battleships at Portsmouth, or the print of "Invaders Repulsed," where British troops are seen driving out the French invaders.
"What's the matter, old man?" asked Frank as Harry came in and flung his hat on the floor, after which he dropped upon a chair. "You do not seem to feel well." "I should think you would eel felegant I mean feel elegant!" snapped Harry, glaring at Frank. "Oh, what's the use to be all broken up over a little thing?" "Wow! Little thing!" whooped Harry.
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