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The black nodded, and dropped upon his face, to crawl up and cautiously thrust his head inside and listen, drawing it back again directly, shutting his eyes, puffing out his face and uttering a low deep snore.
"He jumped up and took a look, and whilst he was working away with the telescope, the breeze comes along right out of the red sky abeam where the steamer was, with twice its former strength, roughening the blue water into hollows, and bowing down the yacht till the slope of her deck was like a roof. The crew jumped about shortening canvas, and the yacht began to snore as she felt the wind.
Then he laid himself down on his bed, and in a little while began to snore very loud as if he was fast asleep.
Bruin, who had betrayed no feeling of any kind at the sight of his late benefactor thus converted into pork, now returned to his own bed, and was soon again in a comfortable snore; but the faithful Tom still sat beside the body of his master, and patiently watched there till daylight.
"Seems to be unanimous," remarked Bob, "although I haven't heard Jimmy's musical voice mixing into the conversation and he's usually right there with the talk. I wonder " Just then he was interrupted by a vigorous snore proceeding from a fourth member of the group, a fat round-faced boy slightly younger than the others, who was lying on his back a few feet away. The boys broke into a laugh.
"I think that will be enough for one day," she laughed. "They're the principal ones whom not who ought to go, you understand, but whom I want to go." "But Bip is too young," he protested. "'Suffer the little children " she said prettily. "He'll go to sleep!" "Then you may hold him." "Maybe he'll snore!" "Then you have my permission to choke him," she laughed.
Six of one and half a dozen of the other, I reckon," said he; at the same time wrapping himself in his shawl, he feigned sleep at every station, for the sake of retaining his entire seat, and sometimes if the crowd was great, going so far as to snore loudly!
The boys lay there counting the dragging moments till it seemed to them that time must be done and eternity growing gray; and then they were grateful to note that at last the sun was setting. Now one snore ceased. Injun Joe sat up, stared around smiled grimly upon his comrade, whose head was drooping upon his knees stirred him up with his foot and said: "Here! YOU'RE a watchman, ain't you!
What were rain and storm, thunder and lightning, compared with the chances that awaited me here? wet through I should inevitably be, but then I had not yet contracted the horror of moisture my friend opposite laboured under. "Ha! what is that? is it possible he can be asleep; is it really a snore?
"Hullo!" came in answer to what sounded like a heavy shaking after Bob Hampton had crept by me. "Now, my lad, rouse up a bit." "Our watch, old man?" "No; not yet." "Bless yer. Good-night." Snore. "No, no; rouse up." "Well, all right, messmate. That there's flesh and blood you've got hold on, not suit. Don't skin me." "Then wake up." "Well, I'm woke up. What is it? Who's dowsed the lantern?"
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