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But what a bound did Pegasus make, when, for the first time, he felt the weight of a mortal man upon his loins! A bound, indeed! Before he had time to draw a breath, Bellerophon found himself five hundred feet aloft, and still shooting upward, while the winged horse snorted and trembled with terror and anger.
The monologist, suiting the action to the word, conjured a deck of cards from somewhere, and extended them to Blaze. "Select one; any one " "Hell!" snorted Jones, slipping into his coat. "You are a skeptic! Very well. I convince nobody against his will. But wait! You have a strong face. Stand where you are." Extracting from another pocket a tiny pair of scissors and a sheet of carbon paper, Mr.
Holding the pony with one hand and pointing the revolver at a blossom on a magnolia tree a few paces away, he fired and the white petals came fluttering down. A second report and another blossom fell. The pony jumped and snorted, but it did not disturb Cairy's aim. A third blossom fell, and then he quickly shot the descending bud which had been cut by the previous shot. "Steady hand!"
"You're havin' your wish, ain't you? Well, then, the both of us should oughter be satisfied." "I feel sure," continued the wheedling and designing Mr. Leary, "that as soon as we reach the station house I can make satisfactory atonement to you for my behaviour just now and can explain everything to your superiors in charge there, and then " "Station house!" snorted Patrolman Switzer.
'Who knows but there is some foundation for them? He snorted his disdain and scholarly contempt. 'Then, said Helen, resorting to argument, 'where did that fire come from? Who made it? Why has he disappeared like this? 'Even you, said her father, quick as always to join issue where sound argument offered itself as a weapon, 'will hardly suppose that a spook eats bacon and drinks coffee,
Piang, on his knees, struggling with the current, was unaware of his audience. Gradually he worked the boat around and headed up-stream, straight for the crocodile. Surprised by this sudden change in tactics, it snorted and opened its repulsive jaws. Piang had hoped to catch it in this position, so, pressing forward as rapidly as possible, he took careful aim and hurled his knife into its mouth.
"I want some strawberries," she stormed, pounding the rug full force. "And an egg. I won't eat dry bread!" Bang! Bang! Bang! Miss Royle half-turned. "Did you ask to go down to the library?" she inquired. She seemed totally undisturbed; yet her eyes glittered. "Did she ask?" snorted Thomas. "She's gettin' very forward, she is." "No, you knew better," went on Miss Royle.
"It's awfully hot to pick berries in the sun all day," yawned Cherry, fingering her book longingly. Peace snorted in disgust, and seizing the precious paper from her sister's lap, she swung nimbly to the ground and started off across the meadow on the other side of the fence. "Wait, Peace! Where are you going?" cried Cherry, scrambling off her perch, thoroughly awake now.
This threat only aroused new fires of scorn and vituperation, and Miss Tate informed her guest that, should he ever attempt the punitive measures described, Mr. Raffin would cut him up into little pieces. It seemed that Mr. Raffin carried a knife, and that he knew how to use it. Mr. Travis snorted at this, and stamped out of the Tate apartment.
"No, begar, dis fish you not catch," says Count Mace. "Dat is gut! haw! haw!" snorted the Baron. "Hook him! Lieber Himmel, you might dry and hook me as well. Haw! haw!" Well, we went to play. "Five to four on Coxe," screams out the Count. "Done and done," says another nobleman. "Ponays," says the Count. "Done," says the nobleman. "I vill take your six crowns to four," says the Baron.
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