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And it was on boys that the man played his tricks, giving them bad twenty dollar bills for some small purchase, and getting good money in change. "He just waited until Mr. Mack went out of his store," explained Frank, "and he knew only a boy was left in charge. That's how he tricked me, waiting until Mr. Mason was out of the office." "Well, you did me a good service," said Mr.
Rapp told me that it was really painful to see these generals. They bowed respectfully to the Emperor, having Mack at their head.
Looking back now over so much that was strange, he thought as many weeks might have gone in the interval. 'Monkey Mack, said Mike, following the direction of Jim's eyes. 'Do you know him? 'Everybody knows of him. Owns the best-stocked station out of New South. Made a pile through the rushes, selling stock at famine prices.
Ignoring the swing, Mack tried the throw in his own style and hurled the hammer two paces beyond Cameron's throw. "You did that with your arms only," said Cameron. "Now you must put legs and shoulders into it." "Let's see you beat that throw yourself," laughed Perkins, who was by no means pleased with the sudden distinction that had come to the "Scotty."
Black Duncan's second throw measured one hundred and nineteen feet seven, which was fifteen feet short of his record and showed him to be climbing steadily upward. Once more the turn came to Mack, and once more, with almost savage eagerness, he seized the hammer preparatory to his throw. "Now, Mack, for heaven's sake go easy!" said Cameron. "Take your swing easy and slow."
He tried to break out, but was defeated successively in the battles of Wertingen, Gunzberg, and Elchingen, where Marshal Ney won fame. Under increasing pressure, Mack was forced to shut himself up in Ulm with all his army, less the corps of the Archduke Ferdinand and Jellachich who escaped, the former into Bohemia, and the latter to the region round Lake Constance.
"'Your big fellow? Why, he just passed you, said Jim. "'No, said I, 'that can't be the man; that must be some consumptive. "'Just the same, that's your big fellow in his football suit, said Jim. 'The biggest part of him is hanging up in there on a nail. "Some tailors, these fellows have nowadays." Johnny Mack further tells of an amusing incident in Foster Sanford's coaching.
Bernadotte's corps, after making history in its march, was detached to the south-east so as to hold in check the Russian vanguard, and to give plenty of room to the troops that were to cut off Mack from Austria, a move which may be compared with the march of Bonaparte to Milan before he essayed the capture of Melas.
"So was Nicholas Weaver, who managed the Brooklyn business for Holland & Mack. Who John Stumpy can be I do not know. Perhaps I would if I saw him face to face.
His dim eyes turned to the sunset, where the cloud curtains were swept asunder, the pillared gates a glory of crimson and gold. Something in his old friend's face hushed Dan's questioning until Father Mack spoke again. "That was a long time ago, a long time ago. But the thought of it makes me understand about Aunt Winnie, Dan, and how hard it is to give you up.
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