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Few casualties occurred, and soon contempt took the place of nervousness, and as we could not reply in kind on account of the elevation required for our guns, the men responded by jeers and imprecations whenever a shell fell into their camp.
"I say, fellers," said Marks, "you jist go round and pick up Tom, there, while I run and get on to my horse to go back for help, that's you;" and, without minding the hootings and jeers of his company, Marks was as good as his word, and was soon seen galloping away. "Was ever such a sneaking varmint?" said one of the men; "to come on his business, and he clear out and leave us this yer way!"
But she did not lose her temper, in spite of Solomon’s jeers. “You’ll be back here again the very next time you’re ill,” she remarked. “And if you continue to swallow your food whole——” But Solomon Owl did not even wait to hear what she said. He was so impolite that he flew away while she was talking.
As he struggled along his movements were impeded by every known device, and at each fall he was set upon by the enraged and triumphant females, who exulted in his ignominious downfall, supplementing their jeers with blows from sticks, stones and whips, until he at length escaped by diving into the underbrush that grew at the base of the hills, and disappeared from view.
"Because he said that there was your especial talent, only he called it by a stronger name. He jeers at the work you are doing." Thayer smiled. "I am sorry. I thought it was good work." "So it is, as far as it goes. But the other goes farther." "Perhaps," he assented. "But do you think it is as as " "Good form?" she queried, laughing. "Yes, if you choose to have it so.
"Did you have a good time today?" his mother would ask, and Tommy, with Sissy in his arms, crowing with delight that she had got him again, would answer, cheerfully: "A first-rate time. I got a big A for spelling, and teacher said I had improved in my writing." And not a word would be hinted about the nicknames or the jeers.
In brief, Noqoilpi was beaten at every point and the remaining captives left him, with jeers, and returned to their people. The gambler cursed and raged until the wind god seized him, fitted him to a bow, like an arrow, and shot him into the sky. He flew far out of sight, and presently came to the long row of stone houses where the man lives who carries the moon.
There was more catching of breath, more cheering, more clapping of hands; but no mock jeers, now that the boys were absent, as the events of the Boy Scouts' invasion and the many incidental and brilliant results were recalled and repictured.
We set off, the ladies in their chairs, I walking by their side, and the object of many jeers and gibes from the irreverent, whom we passed, as I made my way encumbered with the skirt of the infernal red domino, which I held knee-high. We reached Monsieur Voltaire's lodging, a fine one in the Rue St. Jacques, with a garden at the back.
It is hard to die at the best, Captain Wharton; but to spend your last moments alone and unpitied, to know that none near you so much as think of the fate that is to you the closing of all that is earthly; to think that, in a few hours, you are to be led from the gloom, which, as you dwell on what follows, becomes dear to you, to the face of day, and there to meet all eyes fixed upon you, as if you were a wild beast; and to lose sight of everything amidst the jeers and scoffs of your fellow creatures that, Captain Wharton, that indeed is to die!"
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