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A man up and offered me ten cents to help him pull a skiff over the river and back to fetch a sheep, and so I went along; but when we was dragging him to the boat, and the man left me a-holt of the rope and went behind him to shove him along, he was too strong for me and jerked loose and run, and we after him.
But he soon found himself mistaken; for, turning to give utterance to what was passing in his mind, he beheld the other dallying with a trout, which he had hooked, and now held flapping on the surface of the water, evidently much larger than either of his own. "That is a fine one!" cried Claud. "Why don't you pull him in?"
"Both teams couldn't pull the load up this path, senor," said one of the drivers. "I am sorry I did not think to double up at the foot of the ascent, but it is too late to complain now. Come, boys! all together."
He has also to be the referee at these coursings, and if it is a "near thing" with two dogs running at one rat, and you decide to award the victory to a given one, then the owner of the other dog will probably accuse you of wrong-doing and favouritism. Then is the time the Rat-catcher has to be prepared to pull off his coat and start fighting before, perhaps, 500 spectators.
The caressing hand grew even softer. "And you're not going to forget how mother believed in the invention; you can't do that." Hutchinson lifted his head and looked at her. "Eh, Ann," he said, "you are a comfortable little body. You've got a way with you just like your poor mother had. You always say the right thing to help a chap pull himself together. Your mother did believe in it, didn't she?"
As it is, the boy took a good pull at me; and Heaven knows I can't stand much more!" "Now you must hold out until we see what happens," said the wild rose-bush. "I have never known anything so exciting." "Nor I," said the oak. "But it can't end well, when you're hollow to start with." Then the boy came back with the squire. The little chap pointed and told his story.
And now, my brethren, seeing we know these things, and they are true, let us repent, and harden not our hearts, that we provoke not the Lord our God to pull down his wrath upon us in these his second commandments which he has given unto us; but let us enter into the rest of God, which is prepared according to his word.
You would have me pull down the black flag and turn myself into an honest merchantman, with children in the hold and a wife at the helm.
It was very dark by this time, but Little Boy Blue knew every turn and bend in the river, and the doctor helped him pull at the oars, so that at last they came to the place where a faint light twinkled through the cottage window. They found the poor woman in much pain, but the doctor quickly set and bandaged her leg, and gave her some medicine to ease her suffering.
"None of us knew it at the time; but there are events in life that, like certain short and sharp diseases, leave us all the better when they have passed, though their severity may try us cruelly at the time." The Indian summer day was drawing to a close, and Bosko entered to close the windows and pull down the blinds.