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From the great-crested to the little green flycatcher, their ways and general habits are the same. Slow in flying from point to point, they yet have a wonderful quickness, and snap up the fleetest insects with little apparent effort. There is a constant play of quick, nervous movements underneath their outer show of calmness and stolidity.
"I thought you laid a board on Snap and jumped on it," said Wesley. "We did!" cried Billy "oh, you ought to heard him squeal!" Billy laughed loudly, then his face clouded. "But I want Snap to lay beside me so bad now that if he was here I'd give him a piece of my chicken, 'for, I ate any. Do you like dogs?" "Yes, I do," said Wesley. Billy was up instantly. "Would you like Snap?"
Massy listened. Instead of passing on to the bathroom where he should have gone to clean himself, the second entered his cabin, which was next door. Mr. Massy jumped up and waited. Suddenly he heard the lock snap in there. He rushed out and gave a violent kick to the door. "I believe you are locking yourself up to get drunk," he shouted. A muffled answer came after a while. "My own time."
When my poor mother had gone up the stairs on my grandfather's arm the strong soldier took me on his knee, and drawing his pistol from his holster bade me snap the lock, which I was barely able to do.
The door was closed and locked, so that Kiddy Leech might not make his exit in a hurry. The tramp was in a decidedly perplexed frame of mind and blamed himself roundly for not having been more careful. "What are you going to do with me?" he asked, as he stood in a corner. "We are going to hand you over to the police," answered Snap. "It is no more than you deserve."
However, in this the young lady herself afterwards took care to prevent him. As to the old Mr. Snap, by pretending to give his son a whole number for a chair, when in reality he was intitled to a third only. While matters were thus settling between the old folks the young lady agreed to admit Mr.
July 7, 186- brite and fair. i have been in bed 3 days. on the fourth i got bloan up with Pewts canon. i had fired all my snapcrackers but 2 bunches whitch i had saved for nite, so me and Pewt we was fixing the canon, ferst we wood put in sum powder and then we wood put in sum wet paper for a wod and then we wood put in sum grass and then put in the ramrod and pound it down with a rock. then we wood put a fuze of a snap cracker in the tuch hole and lite it and put for the other side of the street and it wood make an auful bang and tern 2 or 3 sumersets.
He tossed the wreath aside. It rolled, clattering and clinking, and settled down at the feet of the Midas of Medicine who stared at it with a contorted face. The meeting sat stricken into immovability. It seemed incredible that the tensity of the silence should not snap. Yet it held. "I shall vote 'No' on the motion," said the Reverend Norman Hale, still with that quiet and appalling simplicity.
"Haven't I been trying to tell you for a year?" Her eyes flashed a challenge at him. "Take care, sir. First thing you know you'll be on thin ice. You might break through." "And if I did " "Of course I'd snap you up before you could bat an eye. Is there a girl living that wouldn't? And I'm almost an old maid. Don't forget that.
As the boy turned sharply round to look out, the great reptile sprang up, opened its huge jaws, and made a snap at the oar-blade, whisked round its tail, striking the boat, and then made a series of plunges to reach the water on the other side, its actions alarming the rest, which on their retreat made the sandspit seem alive, and the water splash and foam; while Pomp uttered a yell of horror, loosed his hold of his oar, and dived down into the boat, to rise again and stare over the stern as soon as I told him the danger was past.
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