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His hand, broad, coarse, thick-fingered, patted hers a hundred times as it lay upon the blankets, until she got nervous over his nervousness. "It's too bad I ain't got no linen sheets," said he suddenly. "But them blankets is eleven-pound four-points, at that.
Perhaps he did and missed. Anyhow I went down and in on him, and the bayonet went through his throat. Jerry had done his man in and all hands piled into the trench. Then we started to race along the traverses. We found a machine gun and put an eleven-pound high-explosive "Stokes" under it.
De Voe's method, and afterwards sold him for five hundred dollars. While at Cincinnati I received a message summoning me home, where I arrived the following morning, and two days later became the father of a bouncing eleven-pound boy. On my arrival home I explained to my folks "just how it all happened."
Bob was pretty successful with the net, but he only caught the mullet. The honour of capturing the eleven-pound salmon, for such it proved to be, was reserved for Bigley and me, as I managed to drive the beautiful silvery creature right up on to the stones, and there Bigley pounced upon it, and bore it flapping and beating its tail to the basket.
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