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"You're jest the same ornery, yella-headed, blue-eyed singin'-bird you always was," declared Pete as they slithered along down the trail. Andy turned in the saddle and grinned at Pete. "Now that you've give the blessing parson, will you please and go plumb to hell?" Pete felt a lot better.

Nelson, the little supercargo, was stripped first. "I'm going down to the bottom," he said. He dived and in a moment another man dived too, but shallow, and was out of the water before him. Then Nelson came up and scrambled to the side. "I say, get me out," he said. "What's up?" Something was evidently the matter. His face was terrified. Two fellows gave him their hands and he slithered up.

At last I found myself wondering if the dawn were coming; the tri-night hour was long since passed; the auroral lights as I could sometimes see them through the tangle of vegetation overhead, were low in the sky. Insects and sometimes larger beings leaped and slithered unseen before my advance. But I did not heed them.

Osterhaut put the thing in a nutshell as he slithered up the main street of Lebanon on his way to the manning of the two fire-engines at the Lebanon fire-brigade station. "This thing is going to link up Lebanon and Manitou like a trace-chain," he declared with a chuckle. "Everything's come at the right minute.

Without waiting for any more I just slithered down off that beam, grabbed my rifle and dashing out across the yard back into the ditch beyond, started hastily scrambling along towards the end of one of our trenches. As I went I heard four more shells crash into that farm.

Slowly, almost without a ripple, the reptile slithered into the water; then came a rush, a snap of jaws, a swirl of waters, and something heavy and wet came right through the mosquito nets, landing in the well of the boat with a tremendous whack. "Look out," yelled Compton; "keep out of his reach." "What the dickens is it now?" roared Mr.

He began to sing a hymn in his thin voice, and I came out wi' a chorus that was all cussin' an' swearin' at my horses, an' I began to know how I hated him. He were such a little chap, too. I could drop him wi' one hand down Garstang's Copper-hole a place where th' beck slithered ower th' edge on a rock, and fell wi' a bit of a whisper into a pit as no rope i' Greenhow could plump."

Neither would be hurt. So as he slewed round the gable-end he smiled. Kit saw the smile and resented it. It angered him that this fellow did not take him seriously. He had not to resent it for long. The smile died a swift and terrible death on Francois' face. "Dame!" he screamed, and slithered back on his heels. A musket barrel was thrusting into his flank. "Pray!" said a solemn voice.

Cathbarr heaved up his ax with a great laugh, like a child; he brought it down on the stones, but if he had meant to break it the effort was vain. The huge weapon clanged down and bounded high out of his two hands, so that men drew back in awe; but the ax whirled twice in the cresset-light, then fell and slithered over the flagging beneath a table, and no man touched it.

Thus it was in no happy frame of mind that Grant slithered across the frozen mud to see what Foote proposed; and, when Foote explained that the gunboats would take ten days for indispensable repairs, Grant resigned himself to the very unwelcome idea of going through the long-drawn horrors of a regular winter siege. But, to his intense surprise, the enemy saved him the trouble.