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"Now, it may be putty hard for you to understand the situation, and I'm free to say that I can't make it so very plain, but I'll do the best I can. One day, a long time ago, old General Lundsford came to me long after I had wallowed him, you understand. And now as to that wallowin', why, he could have killed me if he had wanted to. He's game.
Some of the larger buildings had corners knocked off; pillars cut in two; cornices smashed; holes driven straight through the walls. Many of these holes are as round and as cleanly cut as if they had been made with an auger. Others are half pierced through, and the clean impression is there in the rock, as smooth and as shapely as if it were done in putty.
Oct. 19. I have got a new box of paper collers. Oct. 20. brite and fair. this afternoon me and Fatty Melcher wirked all the afternoon puting leafs in old Putty Lowjys barn. old Putty said he wood pay us but when we asked him for our pay he said we cood have all the horse chesnuts we wanted. so we got a baskit and picked it full and went back to Fattys and pluged horse chesnuts at old Puttys cat.
Suddenly Jack Rasco uttered a cry. "See, Pawnee, here's whar another of the hosses got away. Hang me if I don't think it war my hoss, too!" "Yes, and here is where the horse dropped into a walk," he answered. "I don't believe he can be far off." Without delay Rasco slid to the ground. "I'll follow him up afoot," he declared. "I'm fresh and can run it putty good.
Then he examined it carefully, and discovered that it was not fitted into grooves as the other panels were, but was held in its place by four screws, the heads of which had been carefully concealed by putty, stained and varnished to the color of the oak. "I will see about this at once," he said. The message from the palace that morning, sent by Mrs. Galbraith.
Tom he jest crawled out still and kerful, and stood-up tight agin the wall. Putty soon he hears a grunt, and he sees the top o' the box a risin' up, and a man jest gettin' out on't mighty still. "Wal, Tom he waited till he got fairly out on to the floor, and had his hand on the lock o' the door, when he jumps on him, and puts both arms round him, and gin him a regular bear's hug.
The broken windows were all repaired by Mark, who found several boxes of glass and a bladder of putty among the building material they had brought from Bangor, and who, after a few trials, became quite a skilful glazier.
"Here's the split in the cave, I think," said the old miner, at last. They had reached a spot where the cavern widened out into a large, circular opening. From this point could be seen several other openings. Evidently they had taken the wrong passageway. "But which is the right one?" questioned Roger. "They all look alike to me." "Look putty much alike to me, too," returned Abe Blower.
But his action checked the others from coming out, and the curtain went down in a jiffy. Arietta's action in lifting it had caused the log to fall and pull it up to its full height. "That's putty good, I reckon," said Charlie, smiling grimly. "Is Wild all right, Arietta?" "He is safe for the present, I think," was the girl's reply. "They are waiting for the captain to come.
I left early, for my companions had business at Calumbo; as they were no longer present to control the bearers, a race soft as putty, and I was not used to manage them, the gang became unbearable. The soldier sent to keep them in order did his best with his "supple-jack," and the consequence was that all bolted into the bush. At Cavua two men were forcibly enlisted, but I preferred walking in.
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