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She made no doubt that they were Wylackie Bob and Black Bart, on Arrow and Slingshot. A sudden mist of fear came across her eyes. A tightening caught her throat. She looked around the illimitable spaces that stretched away on all sides. There was nothing in all the spreading plains but the three riders, sprung from nowhere, it seemed, and herself.
You may be sure that I lost no time in getting down to the water, after I had breakfasted with my uncle, on the morning after my arrival. A low stone parapet, topped by iron rails, shut off the garden from the beach. Just beyond the parapet, within slingshot, as I soon proved, was the famous Pool of London, full of ships of all sorts, some with flags flying.
Then he told Marmaduke to catch hold of his pigtail. Which the little boy did, and Ah See swung his head round and round, and his pigtail with it, like David's slingshot in the Bible story. When the little boy was spinning around through the air, fast as fast as could be, Ping Pong cried, "Velly fine now one-two-thlee! let him go!"
"Well," said the latter quietly; "we must take this youngster back to the camp and give him some hospital treatment. Can you walk?" he added, addressing the victim of Bud's slingshot. "You don't think I'd be down here if I could, do you?" moaned the fellow sarcastically. "But just wait till I get over this and I'll fix the fellow that hit me." "Let's not waste any time with him here," urged Mr.
Perry exclaimed. "What with?" "This," the boy answered, exhibiting his slingshot. "Some fellow was prowling around here and I thought it was time to stop him. He was standing in those bushes over there for a long time, and I suppose he thought he was fully concealed, but I saw him. Then he started to crawl up close to the tent, and I let him have a good solid, heavy stone.
Long before noon, Rick and Scotty had moved Rick's four-passenger Sky Wagon off the grassy runway that ran along the seaward side of the island, then settled down to the rock-throwing session. Barby said, "I'm pretty good with a slingshot. Let me try." Scotty handed her the sling. She looked at it dubiously. "What's this? It isn't a slingshot." "It's a sling," Rick explained. "Not a slingshot.
"By the way," Bud remarked, as they were about to leave the cabin, "would you mind telling us the handle of your name? We know your father's surname, but we'd like to know how to address you. You're too young for us to call you Mr. Howard." "You c'n call me Bill, if you want to," the slingshot victim replied.
I see Gim Erly today and he says he will lick time out of Will for a nife and a slingshot. i had lost my nife so i told Beany and he sed he wood give Gim his nife if he wood let him see the fite.
"Everybody says she is the crankiest teacher they is," cried Jimmy, "she won't let you bring nothing to school 'cepting your books; you can't even take your slingshot, nor your air-gun, nor " "Nor your dolls," chimed in Frances, "and she won't let you bat your eye, nor say a word, nor cross your legs, nor blow your nose."
Farther back a little farther back was Arrow, running magnificently, too. A greater distance behind the two came Slingshot. Tharon was frightened. Not for herself. Not for the intent of the men who came after her. Not for gun-fire, nor for capture. She was afraid for the king! Afraid that Bolt could hold that wonderful pace! Then a surging rage rose and sickened her.
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