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"Hold on," cried Journegan; "we're not making any fight." I could see the five ruffians talking brokenly together while they recovered their breath. Our third mate was holding forth in a piping tone, but too low for me to hear the words. "We don't want to press the outfly any further," said England. "We ain't no pirates. All we did was to defend ourselves.
Rabbit, "you know the road that leads to Brag is the shortest route to Bluster. Brother Buzzard and Brother Crow were quarreling because they had been bragging, and a little more and they'd have had a regular pitched battle then and there. "'Maybe you can outfly me, Brother Buzzard, says Mr. Crow, 'but I'll be bound you can't outsing me. "'I have never tried, says Brother Buzzard, says he.
So violent was the outfly that there was but one thing to do, namely, to keep the boat away dead before it; and away went the lugger, still heading to the southward and westward, but with the wind now dead aft instead of over the starboard bow.
There is something behind it, you may be certain, though what it is I am sure I cannot say; possibly it may be a fresh outfly from some other point of the compass, or it may end up with a violent thunderstorm, though I do not think it will; that sky " "No, no," interrupted Henderson, "there's no thunder there, sir, ye may take my word for it. Listen, Mr Delamere! D'ye hear that?"
Now fresher air, now glimpses of unenclosed Down-land with flapping crows flying over it whom we soon outfly, now the Sea, now Folkestone at a quarter after ten. 'Tickets ready, gentlemen! Demented dashes at the door. 'For Paris, sir? No hurry. Not the least. The Royal George takes no more heed of us than its namesake under water at Spithead, or under earth at Windsor, does.
His voice can now reach from the Atlantic to the Pacific, and, taking wing in his aeroplane, he can fly in one swift flight from Nova Scotia to England, or he can leave Lausanne and, resting upon the icy summit of Mont Blanc thus, like "the herald, Mercury, new-lighted on a heaven-kissing hill" he can again plunge into the void, and thus outfly the eagles themselves.
Cavendish, who had just walked forward to make sure that all was as it should be, heard the warning, and shouted an order for all on deck to prepare for the outfly, and then, seizing his speaking-trumpet, rushed up on the poop beside the boys, and roared out a warning to the only ship within hail.
the various devices of the Prince of Darkness, the weapons with which he fought, and those by which he was overcome, the curious phenomena of intense activity and love of gain, the arts of the detective, and those by which he was eluded, and the never-ending and ever-varying surprises and startling incidents, would present such a panorama of human affairs as would outfly our fancy, and modify our unbelief in that much-abused doctrine of the depravity of our nature.
The sun went down in a clear sky that night, and although the breeze held, the swell rapidly subsided, thus clearly indicating that it was not the forerunner of an approaching gale, but the last remaining evidence of one already past in all probability the same gale the initial outfly of which had worked the destruction of the Flying Eagle.
All the true squirrels are more or less birdlike in speech and movements; but the Douglas is preëminently so, possessing, as he does, every attribute peculiarly squirrelish enthusiastically concentrated. He is the squirrel of squirrels, flashing from branch to branch of his favorite evergreens crisp and glossy and undiseased as a sunbeam. Give him wings and he would outfly any bird in the woods.
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