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"Nothing else I can get for you?" I said, feeling genuinely sorry for the well-mannered old donkey. "A cup of tea?" I saw a struggle in his eye and I conquered. When the cup of tea came he drank it like a dipsomaniac gulping brandy. Then he fell back and said: "I have had such a time, Mr Swinburne. I am not used to these excitements.
Boo recovered his spirits first, and gulping down a sob that nearly shook his hat off, consoled his companion in affliction and convulsed his friends by taking from his pocket several little crabs, the remains of a jelly-fish, and such a collection of pebbles that Frank understood why he found the fat boy such a burden when he shouldered him, kicking and howling, in the late run to the boat.
And Lafe kissed his baby kissed him once, twice, and three times, gulping hard after each caress. He would never have enough of those sweet kisses, never, never! And as his lips descended reverently upon the smooth, rose-colored skin, Mr. Grandoken laughed, and Jinnie laughed, and the baby, too, wrinkled up his nose.
At this moment a peculiar gulping noise in Neal's throat drew the eyes of his companions upon him. His were bright and strained, peering at the opposite bank. "Look! What is it?" he gasped, his low voice rattling with excitement. "A cow-moose, by thunder!" said Herb. "A cow-moose and a calf with her! Here's luck for ye, boys!"
Beneath the shelter of a 'lean-to' a group of men sat, hurriedly gulping their morning meal, finding time, all the same, for loud talk and noisy chaff. They were prosaic, hard-faced men, with lines drawn deeply beneath their eyes, and complexions sallow, despite the breezes of the hills among which they were reared.
The smell of the stew, rising strongly, filled Mr. Trimm with such a sharp and an aching hunger that he could not speak for a moment. He mastered himself, but the effort left him shaking and gulping. "Go on, then, an' tell us somethin' about yourself," said the freckled man. "Wot brings you roamin' round this here railroad cut with them bracelets on?" "I was in the wreck," obeyed Mr. Trimm.
"One dip doesn't make a swim, any more than one swallow " He flashed his soles in the sunlight and was once again immersed, gulping, in a maelstrom of his own making. "Twice, to oblige you," said Randolph. "But no more. I'll leave the rest to the sun and the air." Cope, out again, ran up and down the sands for a hundred feet or so. "I know something better than this," he declared presently.
"It was your saying that about my telling you all about it that made me turn queer. You see, this time I was one of the first there, and it fairly turned me sick that it did. Oh, it was too awful, Mrs. Bunting! Don't talk of it." He began gulping down the hot tea before it was well made. She looked at him with sympathetic interest.
It was the voice of the latter which broke the silence. "Am I the one you want, Mr. Bob McAdams?" she asked clearly. "Very well, I am here." McAdams stared at them both, gulping in startled surprise at the vision confronting him, unable to find words. Then his eyes fixed themselves on the face of the speaker. "What!" he burst forth. "You, Del? Great Scott! your name was Hobart, wasn't it?
The sight of the delighted deglutition of the semi-divine persons made Esther's mouth water as she struggled for breathing space on the outskirts of Paradise. The impatience which fretted her was almost allayed by visions of stout-hearted Solomon and gentle Rachel and whimpering little Sarah and I key, all gulping down the delicious draught.
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