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"Oh, pooh! pooh!" cried Smithers; "but I'm not going to argue with you; we had better start in the morning soon after daylight; so, now, let's take a snooze." With this the young men entered the hut, and, rolling themselves in their blankets, settled for sleep; which they enjoyed uninterruptedly until an early hour in morning.
But when he sees the other victims begin sneakin' off one by one he growls out: "Well, son, I suppose they'll be locking us out if we don't follow suit. Get the keys to our rooms." First off I thought I could have a great snooze; but it's such a blamed quiet place that I found myself wide awake, with my ear strained to see if I couldn't hear something.
Most of us played pool till an hour ago, then we gradually dropped off for an hour's snooze." "There will be a chance of getting breakfast, I hope?" "Yes, there is to be a rough and tumble breakfast at a quarter to five. We fall in at a quarter past. We got through the inspection of kits yesterday.
Trouble with you is you don't take no int'rest in it.... Next time you'll know better. Train's goin' in fifteen minutes. Better hustle." Next noon Scattergood was in his usual place on the piazza of his store when the train came in. Presently Mr. Castle, president of the G. & B., came into view, and Scattergood closed his eyes as if enjoying a midday snooze. Mr.
"Wa-al, I dew hope so," drawled the American, with a sigh and a yawn of weariness, "guess I shall snooze till it comes;" and he proceeded to carry his thought into execution. Captain Dinks turned out a true prophet.
I'll take a snooze now, if you won't think it uncivil." And then, putting his feet upon the opposite seat, he settled himself comfortably to his rest. And so Mr Oriel's last attempt for lecturing Frank in the railway-carriage faded away and was annihilated. By twelve o'clock Frank was with Messrs Slow & Bideawhile.
How's your head?" "A little better, I think." "Well enough to come down and look on?" "Oh no," I said, with a shudder; "I feel too sick and ill for that." "Have another snooze, then, and you'll be better still." "But it's too bad to keep you out of the fun," I said. "I didn't grumble. Go to sleep."
The rustic foxes of Izumo have no grace: they are uncouth; but they betray in countless queer ways the personal fancies of their makers. They are of many moods whimsical, apathetic, inquisitive, saturnine, jocose, ironical; they watch and snooze and squint and wink and sneer; they wait with lurking smiles; they listen with cocked ears most stealthily, keeping their mouths open or closed.
Now, the time of Shagpat's triumph, and his greatest majesty, will be when yonder walls chase the shadow of the palm up this hill; and then will Baba Mustapha be joining the chorus of creatures that shriek toward even ere they snooze. There's not an ape in the woods, nor hyaena in the forest, nor birds on the branches, nor frogs in the marsh that will outnoise Baba Mustapha under the thong!
The next shot, which quickly followed, passed almost as close to leeward; and the third came straight enough, but fell just short of us. After this he fired no more. "Very cleverly managed, I call that, Harry," said Bob, as soon as we found ourselves once more out of range. "We can now take things quietly; and as it's your watch below, I'd recommend you to turn in and get a bit of a snooze.
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