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Well, he went on, making more salty waves, and Buddy and Brighteyes paddled around in them, and yelled and hollered, and held on to the ropes, and ducked each other, and splashed and had as good a time as if they had been at the seashore; and so did Percival, too, I guess. Then, after a while they came out of the water and dried off, after thanking Percival.

"I came down from the arctic regions, my dears," said the smiling saint, "and up there we have perpetual snow." "It seems to be perpetual on your boots," observed King; "I'm sure it won't melt off at all!" "Yes, it's first-class snow," agreed Santa Claus, looking at his boots, which were really splashed with white-wash.

Sir Frederick Hamilton called to him the five troopers who had first fired upon the monks and said, 'Mount quickly, and ride through the woods towards the mountain, and get before these men, and kill them. In a moment the troopers were gone, and before many moments they had splashed across the river at what is now called Buckley's Ford, and plunged into the woods.

His clothes were covered with mud from the ditch, some of the muck had splashed over his face so that he was a pitiable looking object. "What's the matter?" panted Pete Bailey. "Are you hurt?" asked Sam Snedecker. The two cronies had hurried to the side of the bully. "Matter? Can't you see what's the matter?" demanded Andy wrathfully. "The machine came down, that's what's the matter!

They were dismal, close, unwholesome, and oppressive; the furniture, originally good, and not yet old, was faded and dirty, the rooms were in great disorder; there was a strong prevailing smell of opium, brandy, and tobacco; the grate and fire-irons were splashed all over with unsightly blotches of rust; and on a sofa by the fire, in the room where breakfast had been prepared, lay the host, Mr.

When the salmon was fifteen feet from the boat, she jerked and somersaulted most unexpectedly, with all the despair of a gambler making his last throw. She shot sheer out of the water and splashed in again almost under the boat. My line, minus the spoon and the hook, ran through my fingers. "Damn!" I exclaimed, in the keenest disappointment.

In the loftier part of the cave, water dropped from the roof to so large an extent, that ninety-six drops of water in a minute splashed on to a small stone immediately under the main fissure.

Splashing water isn't nice," said Baby William's mother. "'Ike drandpa does," Trouble went on, pointing to the oars which the farmer was moving to and fro. Now and then a little wave hit the broad blades and splashed little drops into the boat. "Trouble want do that!" declared the little fellow. "No, Trouble mustn't do that," said his mother. "Grandpa isn't splashing the water. He's rowing.

I like your spunk. Most girls nowadays are such timid, skeery creeturs. When I was a girl I wasn't afraid of nothing nor nobody. Mind you take good care of that boy. He ain't any common child. And make Robert drive round all the puddles in the road. I won't have that new buggy splashed." As they drove away Jims threw kisses at Mrs. Matilda Pitman as long as he could see her, and Mrs.

At last, "He's a tattletale!" she charged, and felt her cheeks crimson with sudden anger. He nodded so vigorously that some of his tears splashed over the rim of his cap. "That's why the Police can't get along without him," he declared. "And, oh, here I've gone and lost him! And They'll put me off the Force!" "They?" she questioned. "Do you mean the soda-water They?"