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For ten years everything that White Henshaw has looked at turned into gold. I know! All that gold he's got in that safe you can lay to that." He turned to the sailor who had first raised the question: "Money? You'll have your share of the loot if you can carry it!" They drew in their breath as if they were drinking. Hovey continued: "Now, lads, I know you're gettin' excited and impatient.
"And the two boys shall die with him?" asked Boulgaris. "They shall, at daybreak." This was put to the assembled throng, and agreed to by all, when suddenly a single dissentient voice was heard. "They shall not die." The brigands looked up, and a boy appeared upon the scene, the boy who had lured the luckless lads to their present unlucky pitch. "Theodora."
"Well, if the Saxons are resting we must work in order to prepare eternal repose for them," said Joseph Speckbacher, gayly. "Now come, my brave lads, we must take the Saxons between two fires. They are miserable scoundrels and traitors.
Dave smiled in a curious way, and then his eyes twinkled as he looked from one to the other. "Well, you wait a week, lads, and then I'll fetch you." "To see the netting?" "Ay. In another week there'll be a deal more dry land, and the ruffs and reeves'll be ower in flocks, I dessay. If they aren't, we'll try for something else."
The ladies must be freed, if they're there. There's not one of you that won't stand by to the last, but I want your oath upon it. By the heads or graves of your mothers, lads, you'll see it through? Up with your hands!" Their hands went up. "By our mothers' heads or graves!" they said in low tones. "Good!" he replied. "I'll go on ahead. If you hear a call, or a shot fired, forward swiftly."
There are few conditions more distressing than the constant and impending suffering attending a tumultuous and fluttering heart. It is stated that one in every four of tobacco-users is subject, in some degree, to this disturbance. Test examinations of a large number of lads who had used cigarettes showed that only a very small percentage escaped cardiac trouble.
IT was settled that after a course of three years at a private tutor's I was to go to Cambridge. The life I had led for the past three years was not the best training for the fellow-pupil of lads of fifteen or sixteen who had just left school. They were much more ready to follow my lead than I theirs, especially as mine was always in the pursuit of pleasure. I was first sent to Mr.
"He makes a noise like a litter of pigs," muttered Chunky. Acting upon the chief's direction two braves grabbed the lads, and hurried them away, Tad meanwhile watching for an opportunity to break away. Had he been alone, he felt sure he could do so safely. But he would not leave his companion, of course.
But the bashful ones, or those that thought the pastor would have cause to say something to them, would come right back to the inn, and only the lads would go for the certificate. After Freneli had declined to go along and had bidden Uli to let his master know and send word to have his master and mistress come, he set out.
It was quite late when the boys reached the Toft, to find the squire standing outside smoking his pipe and waiting for them. "Where have you been, lads?" he said; and on being told, he uttered a good-humoured grunt, and laying his hand upon Tom's shoulder, "Here," he said, "you'd better stop with Dick to-night. They won't be uneasy at home?"
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