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It would destroy our chance of making our fortunes, for what would happen? The grab would be sold; the sahib would take the most of the price; we should get a small share, not enough to help us to become rovers of the sea and our own masters." "The sahib will refuse, then. So be it! But what then shall we do with him?" "He will not get the chance of refusing. He will not be told."
To the man he said sharply: "I want you to do exactly as I tell you, now. Don't grab me, but let me get the first grab." He had noticed that the man wore a heavy overcoat, and had already laid his plan. "Don't try," urged the man. "You cannot save me. I will stay here till it gets too hot; then I will jump." "No, you won't," from the sergeant, as he lay at full length on the roof, looking over.
As they struck the dirt road agin, I hearn a shot. And then another and another. Then a dozen all to oncet, and away off through the night a woman screamed. I seen the man in the telephone place fling down his book and grab a pistol from I don't know where. He stepped out into the street and fired three shots into the air as fast as he could pull the trigger.
Mine don't I gad, I have to grab her and take it away from her; and whenever you see milk in my house you may know it's the record of a fight and that the cow got the worst of it." Jim sat striving to think of something to say. The presence of the Major had imposed a change in his forecast. His meeting of Mayo and the negro suddenly recurred to him, and quietly he related the adventure.
"Yes," assented the fledgling, with the greatest intellectual enthusiasm, "baby beets folds up jest that way," and he illustrated after Sam, with his grubby little paddies, "same as chickens in eggs and " "Come on, Betty, let's go select the spot for the cedar-log temple for Peter's muses," Sam interrupted as he made a lightning grab for the Byrd and tumbled him back into the loamy earth.
You may think you've run up against dangers before, but let me tell you that your most perilous jungle is safe as a church compared to the jungle an ordinary grass plot will present to us, if, as we plan, we get reduced to a quarter of an inch. I'm going in this with a mission. To me it's a heaven-sent opportunity one I'm sure any entomologist would grab at. But you, frankly, are just a fool "
You can't tell when his mind is in condition for running amuck, but suddenly he will whoop like a drunken man, strike his poor patient wife over the back with his trunk and grab her tail and try to pull it out by the roots, and jump up and crack his heels together like a drunken shoemaker, and bellow as though he was saying he was a bad man from Bitter Creek.
I rushed in from behind, and flirtatiously, perhaps, tried to grab hold of her hands, coming off the field minus a necktie, but plus that picturesque scratch you see on my nose. Stopping a moment to count up my profit and loss, I let Bradley make the next assault, which resulted in a drawn battle, Bradley losing his watch and his temper, the jewel losing her breath and her balance.
"Great Scott, how you've fooled us, then! Like everyone else, we believed you two boys to be straight. "Ask Mr. Pollock yourself," Dave flung back. "I will, when I get time," retorted Simmons. "Grab Darrin and put the irons on his wrists, too!" Dave Gives Points to the Chief of Police "You clumsy bungler!" spoke Dave Darrin hotly. "Chief, I demand the right to speak to you for a moment."
"You're a bunch of crooks!" he burst out indignantly. "I only deposited that money on a bet! And here you turn loose and spend the whole roll, and start to pay me back in fives and tens." "No, but Mr. Calhoun," broke in Judson Eells impatiently, "you don't understand how banking is done." "Yes I do!" yelled back Wunpost, "but, by grab, I had a dream, and I dreamt that your danged bank was broke!
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