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Then he laid down the specimen, and walked quietly out the door without further comment. He had gone to get his outfit ready. To others, not so prompt of action, Peter explained at length, always in that hesitating, diffident voice of his. "I have my claims all staked," said he; "you boys can come up and hook onto what's left. There's plenty left.

Again she cried in that peculiar way, which is best represented by the word "Hook!", sometimes with the "h" silent. "More fish, that's what she's asking for," said the trainer. "Here you are, Lizzie." He held up one from the pail. The seal flipped her way over to him, and with a snap of her jaws bit the fish cleanly in two pieces with her sharp teeth. "Whew!" whistled Joe.

I propose to take him with me away, to make of him a sailor, to care for him as my son. You think well of this; you have been kind to the child always, as he tell me? You are glad to have him remove from the slavery of this old fish, yes?" He smiled, and bent his dark eyes on his unhappy visitor. Mr. Bill Hen writhed upon the hook.

"Oh! do get it this time, Dick!" panted Tom as he knelt in the boat. "One quick dash, Mester Dick, and you hev it!" Dick did not answer, but lay prone upon his chest well out over the stern of the boat, holding on with one hand, the hook stretched out over the water, ready, his heart beating and his eyes glittering with excitement.

Bulger sprang into the dinghy and then began an ascent so clever, and at the same time so comical, that Desmond had much ado not to spoil his joke by a premature explosion of laughter. The burly seaman swarmed up the rope like a monkey, clasping it with his legs as he took each upward grip. But the comedy of his actions was provided by his hook.

It is, I think, the most provoking loch I ever fished. You raise them; they come up freely, showing broad sides of a ruddy gold, like the handsomest Test trout, but they almost invariably miss the hook. You do not land one out of twenty. The reason is, apparently, that people from the nearest town use the otter in the summer evenings, when these trout rise best. In a Sutherland loch, Mr.

A sycophantic murmur rises from the crowd. 'Hook it, Bob, when Mr. Rogers and Mr. Field tells you! Why don't you hook it, when you are told to? The most importunate of the voices strikes familiarly on Mr. Rogers's ear. He suddenly turns his lantern on the owner. 'What! YOU are there, are you, Mister Click? You hook it too come! 'What for? says Mr. Click, discomfited.

Probably, vain of his fishing ability, he desired to show his skill, but he aimed at the wrong mark, if that was his intention, as nothing of the kind would touch me. I would not be chagrined if he fishes out two or three tunnies. I am a man myself and poor though I may be in the art, I would hook something if I dropped a line.

I took the miniature gently from the little brass hook on which it hung, and stood for some time looking at the bright frank face. It was the picture of Charlotte Halliday. Yes; I suppose there is a fatality in these things. It was one of those marvellous accidental resemblances which every man has met with in the course of his life.

Looking around for a possible foot-stool, she spied a small box, which might have been used before for a similar service, and pulling it into position she found that it brought her to the proper height. With a trembling hand she lifted the receiver from its hook. She was familiar with the hospital number, and gave it without hesitation. "Put in your nickel!" came distinctly to her ear.