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"What are you going to do now?" asked Mordaunt, rising also. He looked hard at Case. "Shiver my sides, cap'n, if I don't need another drink," replied the sailor. "You have had enough. Come upstairs with me," said Mordaunt. "Easy with your hatch, cap'n," grinned Case. "I want to drink with that ther' Injun killer.
Burton took a pinch of dirt from the side of the bucket at his feet, rubbed it between his finger and thumb, and grinned at the digger. 'Take me for a Johnny Raw, don't you? he said. 'This is good enough for me. Quick, Jim, the pegs! The exclamation was drawn from him by the sight of three men running along the lead in their direction.
He sheathed his gun and flung open the door, stepping back as a white avalanche rushed in; grinning broadly as he saw the men shrink from it. He divined that the men thought he was going to force them out into the storm immediately, and he grinned coldly. "You can be tickled that I'm not sending you out into it, to drift with the cattle you tried to kill," he said. "You'd deserve that, plenty.
While the circus boy was making his morning toilet the lads watched him in admiring silence. "What do you do?" ventured Phil. "I perform on the rings." "Up in the air?" "Uh-huh." "Ever fall off?" "I get my bumps," grinned the red-haired boy. "My name is Rodney Palmer. What's your names?" They told him.
The tars peeped and grinned from every rope to see a doctor try and catch a shark with a soda-water bottle and no hook; but somehow the doctor seemed to know what he was about, so they hovered round, and awaited the result, mystified, but curious, and showing their teeth from ear to ear.
"You did it on purpose?" Sam Herbenfelder shook a scrawny fist under Harry's nose. The big Cornishman waved it aside as one would brush away an obnoxious fly. Then he grinned at the townspeople about him. "Well," he confessed, "there was an un'oly lot of water in there, and I didn't 'ave any money. What else was I to do?"
Next time, either Mr. Theydon or I may be trusted to balance matters." Theydon grinned and nodded. He signaled with his eyes that Winter was to make Evelyn Forbes understand that she had just escaped being the victim of an extraordinary outrage.
According to arrangement he had been paid beforehand, but not knowing that I knew that, he clamoured for more. The crowd pressed closer to listen to the discussion, and grinned with a rather malicious satisfaction when the man was forced to confess that he had already received what they knew was a generous tip.
"And I've heard folks claim they liked to ride on a horse!" he added perplexedly. Johnny grinned and turned off the road to ride straight across the country. It would be rough going for the aviator, but it would shorten the journey ten or twelve miles, which meant a good deal to Johnny's peace of mind.
We now entered the wood of palms to eat our dinner, when suddenly a number of monkeys, alarmed by our approach, and the barking of the dog, fled like lightning to the tops of the trees; and then grinned frightfully at us, with loud cries of defiance. As I saw the trees were cocoa-palms, I hoped to obtain, by means of the monkeys, a supply of the nuts in the half-ripe state, when filled with milk.
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