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High and low, all made fun of him. They sewed up those corduroys, tight as they were. They cut his bed-strings. They upset buckets and benches, so that he might break his shins over them, which he never failed to do. They sent him parcels, which, when opened, were found to contain the paternal soap and candles.
Head, shoulders, and shins all bumped into them. They would meet me even if I walked in the broad roadway. And they were hard, very hard. They were at first a pair of veritable ogres, but in the end I conquered them, and could walk by them with a jaunty air, whistling a tune of defiance. When I arrived at St. Dunstan's, the place was practically deserted.
And the row of little boys whose mothers always made them sit in the very first pew never so much as thought of kicking each other's shins or passing a hard pinch down the line or even quietly swapping lucky stones and fish hooks for a snake skin or a choice piece of colored glass.
I kicked Simmons on the shins and fell to on it, and, as opportunity offered, thrust pieces in the pockets of my tunic until, to our relief, they brought out the white bread, which we devoured to the last crumb. It was very good. We filled our pipes in high contentment and went ashore, where a procession of enthusiastic villagers waited to escort us to the village.
So we got her to the door, and there she spying her son by ill-luck in the street, directly stretches out her' arms, and kicking my shins, plase your honour, till I could not hold her, "Murder! Randal Rooney," cries she, "and will you see your own mother murdered?" Randal. Them were the very words, I acknowledge, she used, which put me past my rason, no doubt. Phil.
From another table a voice responds: "Yes, fellows, it's better than a kick in the shins, every time!" The last mouthful gone, the cider bottles empty, they tighten the straps of their kit bags and rise regretfully from their seats. "Allez. Off again, boys! C'est la guerre!" and they shuffle away humming and filling their pipes.
"To say nothing of the mortgage on my house and on the nicest little best paying flat building in San Francisco since the earthquake." "But who's still putting up? all of you, I ask you." The wheat-farmer leaned forward, resting the heels of his hands on his knees so that the fingers hung down his long shins, in Daughtry's appraisal, half-way to his feet.
With the quick instinct of a wrongdoer he suspected evil, and kicked sharply back ward at the shins of the enemy. 'Le' go! You le' me go, see! gasped the boy, struggling and fighting fiercely. Resistance was quite useless. Dick was dragged through the gate, and up to the house. The door was opened, and he was bundled unceremoniously into the kitchen.
You cannot lean out of a German bed to pick up anything off the floor, owing to its box-like formation; so he has to scramble out after it, and of course every time he does this he barks both his shins twice against the sides of the bed.
The first part of our path was through sand, with rocks sticking up here and there, over which we stumbled several times, and broke our shins, but we picked ourselves up as well as we could, and not having time to give them a rub, hurried on. We were soon among maize fields, and then some coffee or other plantations, but fortunately there were no tall trees near yet further to darken the road.
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