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"I certainly do, and what is more, I shall see that you do it, even though I am only a hired man." Something in Douglas' voice and bearing made an impression upon Squire Hawkins. He squirmed uneasily in his chair and his face grew redder than ever. "Confound it all!" he growled. "Why do you bother me with this matter? What reason had the men to attack you? They were only sky-larking, no doubt.
Then more weird squeaking was heard, and a second pig imitated his comrade's example, jumping also from the boat overboard just as if they were playing the game of "follow my leader" which we often indulged in when sky-larking in the second dog-watch!
He stood before her a moment silently; then stretched out his hand: "Well, the best of luck, my dear!" A band of youths strolled by. One of them flashed a lantern-light on the doorway. "Aha! Sky-larking with the engineers! Ha! Ha! Ha!" They began chattering among themselves and sang in chorus a ribald doggerel: "Once upon a time a wench Appeared before a judge's bench.."
I had become, from habit, so extremely active, and fond of displaying my newly-acquired gymnastics, called by the sailors "sky-larking" that my speedy exit was often prognosticated by the old quarter-masters, and even by the officers.
Evenings at the hotels were passed in reviving the "sky-larking" of school-boy days. These scenes were amusing to participants and spectators. Sober, dignified men, the majority of them heads of families, occupied themselves in devising plans for the general amusement.
"Why didn't you bring him along?" asked John Ellison. "I wanted you all to come." "Arthur's off down town, and Joe's gone to the camp with Tim Reardon," explained the eldest of the Warren brothers. "Tim and Joe'll be sky-larking around somewhere later. They're great on Hallowe'en night, you know. They've got a supply of cabbage-stumps to deliver at the doors."
"Sky-larking, are you?" said Saunders, going forward; "weel, lads, you've had a lot o' hard work of late, ye may go and take a run on the ice." Instantly the men, like boys set free from school, sprang up, tumbled over the side, and were scampering over the ice like madmen. "Pitch over the ball! the football!" they cried.
In the twinkling of an eye they were off, and we heard them shouting and sky-larking in the lane. "Cum, Mr. H ," said the music-master, buttoning his great-coat up to his chin, "let us be a-goin'." On reaching the spot where we had left the cutter, to our great disappointment, we found only one-half of it remaining; the other half, broken to pieces, strewed the ground. Mr.
Frequently, when the middies, waking early of a morning, as most youngsters do, would be kicking up their heels in their hammocks, or running about with double-reefed night-gowns, playing tag among the "clews;" the Senior lieutenant would burst among them with a "Young gentlemen, I am astonished. You must stop this sky-larking. Mr.
The young girls of Nazareth still collect about it by the dozen and keep up a riotous laughter and sky-larking. The Nazarene girls are homely. Some of them have large, lustrous eyes, but none of them have pretty faces. These girls wear a single garment, usually, and it is loose, shapeless, of undecided color; it is generally out of repair, too.
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