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If there wer one thing I liked in the old country it wer rabbit-pie, and it kinder made me lonesome to think I'd never fix my grinders through another 'fore I got played out!" "I've heard, too," continued Mr Meldrum, "that there's a very fine sort of tern or duck here that is good eating; and I fancy I saw a brace fly across the creek the other day. We might come across some!"
I can't help myself and twenty men see it." "Think they'll help you?" Meldrum swept his hand toward the frightened loungers and railroad officials. His revolver was out in the open now. He let its barrel waver in a semi-circle of defiance. "No. They won't help me, but they'll hang you. There's no hole where you can hide that they won't find you.
I'll keep mum, sir, never you fear, though I don't forget the old " "Stop," said Mr Meldrum, changing the subject. "I've no doubt all hands are pretty dry after all the heat we've been in down below, so, with the captain's permission, I'll send something forward for them to splice the main brace with." "Aye, aye, your honour," replied Ben; "a nod's as good as a wink to a blind horse."
One sat on the bed with a leg tied to the post. The other was at the table playing solitaire, a revolver lying beside the cards. The card-player was Meldrum. He jumped up with an oath. "Goddlemighty! What's she doing here?" he demanded in his hoarse raucous bass. "That's her business and mine," Rutherford answered haughtily. "It's mine too, by God!
"Ah! that's the rayson we couldn't say the flag, sorr," observed the mate. "It is there still," replied Mr Meldrum; "although it is now all to port, instead of right amidships as it was when we left. This is on account of the mizzen-mast stump leaning over into the water, for I couldn't see it myself till I took the glass. She can't last much longer, though.
This they carefully lowered down into the jolly-boat, for the glass framing would come in handy for the windows of any house they built Mr Meldrum having hinted on the previous evening of some more substantial structure being necessary than the tent, which had been only put up for temporary accommodation on their first landing on the island.
The 1st Australian Light Horse Brigade commanded by General Cox, and the New Zealand Mounted Rifles Brigade under General Meldrum, moved against Tel el Saba, a 1000-feet hill which rises very precipitously on the northern bank of the wadi Saba, 4000 yards due east of Beersheba. Tel el Saba is believed to be the original site of Beersheba.
I'd sooner a durned sight be thar than haar if it comed on to blow!" "Patience, my friend!" replied Mr Meldrum. "Don't you recollect that old French proverb, `Everything comes to him who waits!" "Don't reckon I dew, mister," answered the other. "I guess, though, it warn't a waiter at one of them hotels that said that, hey?"
"True for you, sorr," replied Mr McCarthy, stretching out his brawny fist; "and there's my hand on it to say I'll attind to your orders, if it's to holystone the face of that ould cliff there." "All right, my friend!" said Mr Meldrum, shaking the hand outstretched cordially. "I see we understand each other; and, believe me, I'll not be a hard taskmaster."
Beaudry you can order his coffin." Nevertheless, Meldrum had the humiliating sense that he had failed to live up to his reputation as a killer. He had promised Battle Butte to give it something to talk about, but he had not meant to let the whisper pass that he was a four-flusher. His natural recourse was to further libations. These made for a sullen, ingrowing rage as the day grew older.
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