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'Well, as a matter of fact, said Elizabeth, carelessly, 'the water's off again. 'Confound it! 'I said that. I'm afraid we aren't a very original family. 'What a ghastly place this is! Why can't you see old Flack and make him mend that infernal wheel? 'I'm going to pounce on him and have another try directly I see him.
"The muffled dice are somewhere around," Sneak would say to his aids; "there are them three chaps, there, been dogging me about for the last half-hour. I say, Pounce, has any one been scouting around you this morning?" "Four on 'em," says Pounce. "I know'd it; I know'd the muffled dice was rattlin'!" "Leggs!" says the master-at-arms to his other aid, "Leggs, how is it with you any spies?"
Two knights are at the head of the soldiers, cattle and provisions. Let us capture them." "Shall we cross the Niemen," inquired Zbyszko. "Yes! I know a ford." "Do they know at the castle of the relief train?" "They know and will come to meet them, but we shall pounce upon them too."
She is passed and Uncle Pyke, Colonel Pyke Pounce, R.E., is grunted past to lay himself beside her. They are passed. She is passed; she came into Rosalie's life and Rosalie crossed her life and she never forgave Rosalie. Dear thing! Lie lightly on her, stones!
They loved to lure on the unwary by imitating the gobbling of a turkey or the call of some wild beast, and then pounce upon their human prey. As the corn crop, so carefully planned, had been destroyed by heavy freshets in the autumn, the settlers had to scour the woods for food, living on nuts and game.
By Sunday my cheeks are no longer raw; the furniture has stopped cracking seeing that no one paid any attention to it, it wisely left off and the ghosts await a fitter opportunity to pounce. I have heard from Sir Roger a cheerful note, dated Southampton. If he is cheerful, I may surely allow myself to be so too.
To do this fix some tracing-paper over the design and carefully take the outline; a good margin of plain paper should be left round the outside in order to prevent any of the pounce getting accidentally rubbed on to the embroidery. The next process is the perforation of the pattern.
The host, who well knew Mr Pounce and Lady Booby's livery, was not a little surprized at this change of the scene; nor was his confusion much helped by his wife, who was now just risen, and, having heard from him the account of what had passed, comforted him with a decent number of fools and blockheads; asked him why he did not consult her, and told him he would never leave following the nonsensical dictates of his own numskull till she and her family were ruined.
This part of the country is pretty equally divided in opinion, though more of the people are for the South than for the North; but I know there are guerrilla parties on both sides moving about, and if a Confederate band was to pounce down on these bridges and destroy them it would cut the communication with their army in front, and put them in a very ugly position if they were defeated.
On looking narrowly in the direction from whence the sound came, I caught sight of a panther, or "American lion," as the beast is commonly called, stealing along, very probably on the same errand as we were, hoping to pounce upon one of the females of the herd, could he catch his prey unprepared.
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