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"I will meet you here, and put up the money, and I will bet one hundred dollars that Mr. Olcott can't plant all the bullets in his revolver in the same hole at a distance of thirty paces, and if you want to make another bet, I'll bet ten dollars that Mr. Olcott won't undertake it."
I've about shot my bolt.... Reckon you'll do best by bringin' up blankets water salt firewood. Laddy's got one chance in a hundred. Fix him up first. Use hot salt water. If my leg's broke set it best you can. That hole in Yaqui only 'll bother him a day. Thorne's bad hurt... Now rustle Dick, old boy."
He whipped the fly lightly within six inches of a little suction hole; a fish at once rose and struck. The others had been little fellows and easily handled. At the end of fifteen minutes the newcomer landed a fine two-pounder. "That must be fun," commented Thorpe. "I never happened to get in with fly-fishing. I'd like to try it sometime."
Balbi must break through the wall of his cell into the little corridor, and there cut a round hole in the floor precisely as Casanova had done in his former cell until nothing but a shell of ceiling remained a shell that could be broken down by half a dozen blows when the moment to escape should have arrived.
Having given away much wealth and worshipped the Brahmanas, the hero having the plough for his weapon bathed there and became filled with joy. Devoted to righteousness, the great ascetic Trita had lived there. While in a hole, that high-souled one had drunk the Soma juice. His two brothers, dashing him down into that pit, had returned to their home.
In the night she bore an infant son, and, therefore, next morning another woman came to do the cooking. She took the hind leg and before proceeding to cook it, washed it. It slipped through a hole in the floor to the ground underneath. Looking through the hole she saw a small male child instead of the leg, and she told Mae of this. "Go and take this child up and bring it here.
"And fa's to pay my new ponnie plaid," said the larger Highlander, "wi' a hole burnt in't ane might put a kail-pat through? Saw ever onybody a decent gentleman fight wi' a firebrand before?"
When I heard that, I said to my husband, 'Depend upon it, says I, 'he met with his death that night, and was thrown into some hole, and that's the reason he cannot rest.
"Some people say," he added, after a pause, "that they come again. I don't know. I've never found the colour I care about myself. I suppose I shall some day." Then they looked again at the star, put it carefully into its hole, danced around it and over it but solemnly, and called it by the name of the finder. "Will you know it again?" asked Diamond. "Oh, yes.
These three nights have made a big hole in our stocks. Hunter-Weston feels that all is in our favour but the artillery. In Flanders, he says, they would never attack with empty limbers behind them; they would wait till they were full up. But the West is not in its essence a time problem; there, they can wait next week next month.
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