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We smoked and played cards and yarned and filled 'em up again at the Royal till after one in the morning. Then I started home. "I'd finished giving the Bank a couple of coats of stone-colour that week, and was cutting in in dark colour round the spouting, doors, and window-frames that Saturday.
"That's what but we'll wax 'em!" was the answer, and then of a sudden came another yell, for Pornell had the ball and was pushing it straight ahead for Putnam's goal. "Ten yards!" "Five yards more!" "Fifteen yards more!" "Hurrah! Hurrah! Hurrah!" Toot! toot-a-root-toot! Clack-clack-clack, bang!
He glanced, his eyes eager; but Peterson, while a professional doubter, was personally a man of whose loyalty and whose courage I, myself, had not the slightest doubt. "Let 'em come!" said he. "We're on our own way and about our own business; and outside the three mile zone, let 'em follow us on the high seas if they like. She's sound as a bell, Mr.
"You are in hard luck!" commented Bobby, who had overheard, as she danced off to open the door to the grinning expressman. "All the porters are busy!" the man explained. "So I just told 'em Tim McCarthy wasn't one to stand by and let work go undone. Where would ye be wantin' these little bags put now?"
"And you know how very ready to say nasty things these Highmarket people are. I'm not a Highmarket man myself, any more than you are, and I've always regarded 'em as very bitter-tongued folk, and so " "Out with it!" said Cotherstone. "Let's know the truth never mind what tongues it comes from. What are they saying?"
Let's see if you can hit that dead tree over there, Mark." Jack stooped to grab up a stone, but no sooner had his fingers touched it than he called out: "There! I forgot all about the stones here being heavier than lead. Guess we can't throw any of 'em. But come on. I'll race you to the dead tree!" Mark was willing, so the two boys set off at a fast pace.
This promiskus way o' meetin' up with strangers an' lettin' 'em talk to you jest ez ef they'd knowed you all their lives hez got to be stopped. It's your time, Henry, to give 'em a polite hint, an' I jest suggest that you take the big fellow in the front o' the boat who looks like a Mohawk." Henry raised his rifle, fired, and the Mohawk would row no more.
Why, right before 'em, on the other side of the basin, with only a little water between 'em that would soon be crossed, they could see a woman a-towerin' up a hundred feet, in plain view of all the countries of the assembled world, a-holdin' in her outstretched hand the emblems of Power and Liberty.
The sojers is sure not to be put aboard that night; they'll give 'em a day or two to rest after their journey down the country, not for the sake of the men, sir, but because the officers 'll want it." "Then you think that my plan will do?" asked I. "Yes, sir, I do; I haven't a doubt about it," was the confident answer.
'I'm sure I don't know: there's nothing left to pawn except my black coat and vest. You might get something on that. 'It'll have to be paid somehow, said Ruth, 'or you'll be taken off to jail for a month, the same as Mrs Newman's husband was last winter. 'Well, you'd better take the coat and vest and see what you can get on 'em tomorrow.
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