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"Dey done knock him 'mos dead wid a shell." "The Yankees!" exclaimed the young rebel. "Are you in the service?" "I was running the blockade when I was hurt," answered Marcy. "But I wasn't hit by a shell. I was knocked down by a heavy splinter." "Pass us down your other flipper," said the officer, standing up in his boat and extending his hand. "I am glad to meet you.
"I rassled with him one evenin' down in Virginny an' I'll never tackle him ag'in, you hear to me. His right flipper is as big as mine an' when it takes holt ye'd think it were goin' to strip the shuck off yer soul." "He's in every way a big man," said the Doctor. "On the whole, he's about our biggest man.
"WE don't," the girl replied with emphasis; "there's a shorter cut." "Where?" "That's telling," she answered shortly. "What's your name?" asked Lance, after a steep scramble and a drop into the ravine. "Flip." "What?" "Flip." "I mean your first name, your front name." "Flip." "Flip! Oh, short for Felipa!" "It ain't Flipper, it's Flip." And she relapsed into silence.
I want you all to take a drink with me and Arkansas old Arkansas, I call him bully old Arkansas. Gimme your hand agin. Look at him, boys just take a look at him. Thar stands the whitest man in America! and the man that denies it has got to fight me, that's all. Gimme that old flipper agin!"
These turtles were only to be obtained by diving far down under the surface; and then swimming along horizontally, and peering into the coral honeycomb; snatching at a flipper when seen, as at a pinion in a range of billing dove-cotes.
And he says, 'Young 'uns no one as we know. And I says, 'Not likely, matey; I've been on the square this twenty year. 'Same here, says the old chap; 'give us your flipper.
But from behind, the rounded head, the shapely neck, the little baby manatee held carefully in the curve of a flipper, made legends of mermaids seem very reasonable; and if I had been an early voyageur, I should assuredly have had stories to tell of mer-kiddies as well.
"Well, I do promise the very first time I get the chance; and that will be to-morrow night, for our new parson has started temperance meetings, and he is a great teetotaller." "An' you promise to stick to it?" added Molloy. "When I give a promise I always stick to it!" returned Miles gravely. "Right you are, lad. Give us your flipper!"
He gave the commander a real, big-hearted grip of the hand, which settled the question of friendship for him at once. Sailors detest a "grisly shake of the flipper." Likes and dislikes are invariably fixed by this test.
Especially now, when you're the real thing." Brown never answered for a minute. Then he canted over to port and reached down into his pocket. "Well," says he, "how much?" But Hank, or Booth, or Montague whatever his name was he waved his flipper disdainful. "Nun-nun-nun-no, Petey, my son," he says, smiling. "It ain't 'how much? this time.
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