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There was a barricade at either end of this street the blinds were up and you could hear the bullets patter against them. The insurgents, all covered with powder, would sneak over and get a drink and when finally their barricade was taken, it was the Republican soldiers who sat in our chairs and drank beer and lemonade! Their guns, humph! Let them bark!"
Joe made no reply; but as soon as he could cut the string away from his wrist, seized Sneak by the throat, hurled him on his back, and springing upon him, a violent struggle ensued for a few moments before they could be separated. "What do you mean?" exclaimed Glenn, dragging Joe away from his prostrate victim.
For just about two cents I'd bust your fool necks for you every one of you!" I glared vindictively at them. "Do you suppose I'd make any such proposition to any of you to ask you to sneak off like a whipped cur leaving me to take the " "Hold on, Frank," interposed Talbot soothingly. "I didn't mean " "Didn't you?" I cried. "Well, what in hell did you mean?
Did I know where he was? When he was coming back? Beautiful Dog glanced wistfully at the empty chair over by the window. Once or twice his god had allowed him to lie beside that chair while he read, and if Beautiful Dog happened to raise his head, a kind hand happened to fall upon it. He hadn't forgotten. His desire now was to sneak over to the chair and sniff at it.
"You thief!" he said. "Your game is up. You sneak thief!" Ashton lowered his pistol and cowered as though Blake had struck him. "No, no! I'm not I'm not! You haven't any proof you can't prove it!" "Proof?" growled Blake. "When I've known it ever since I came up before knew it the first look. My bridge from shoe to peak every girder, every rivet and my truss!
But at present Dol bepraised his moccasins; for they had enabled him to sneak upon his birds, the wildest of the duck tribe, who generally, at a single hoarse "Quack!" from their leader, will cease their antics in lake or stream, and disappear like a skimming breeze before a sportsman can get a fair shot at them.
"If Thomas or you had asked me in earnest, and there was need of your going, I wouldn't have kept either of you at home. I would go to the poorhouse first. My father and my brother both fought for their country, and my sons shall when their country wants them." "Then you are willing Tom should go?" "I am, but not to have him sneak off like a sheep-stealer."
It may be possible that I was mistaken about the Indian as well as you I might have just thought I saw him move. But I was there longer than you, and the inference is that I didn't stand as good a chance to be deceived." "Well, I can't answer all that," said Sneak; "but I'll swear I felt my knife grit agin his neck-bone."
"It is the house of LE BON DIEU. Can we build it in hate?" "POLISSON! You make an excuse. Then come to Girard's, and fight there." Again Prosper held in for a moment, and spoke three words: "No! Not now." "Not now? But when, you heart of a hare? Will you sneak out of it until you turn gray and die? When will you fight, little musk-rat?" "When I have forgotten. When I am no more your friend."
"I'll jest walk up an' rap on the door," said Anderson Crow, "lettin' on to be a tramp. I'll ast fer somethin' to eat an' a place to sleep. While I'm out there in the kitchen eatin' you fellers c'n sneak up an' surround us. Then you c'n let on like you're lookin' fer me because I'd robbed a hen-roost er something, an' that'll get 'em off their guard.
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