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"What are you to do when a cow won't stand straight?" spluttered Felix angrily. "That's the question," said Uncle Roger, shaking his head gravely. Uncle Roger's laughter was hard to bear, but his gravity was harder. Meanwhile, in the pantry the Story Girl, apron-enshrouded, was being initiated into the mysteries of bread-making.
"If if we could find the place and block the devil and all his gang inside," gasped Holman. "That's too good a thing to entertain," I spluttered. "We might, Verslun! We might!" he cried. "I've got a feeling that we've been picked to put that devil out of existence. That's why I'm taking a chance in leaving the girls back there at the camp.
'Quite; for my pen spluttered in the slope of the A. Has she gone and given it to him? 'No. She brought it to me, and set the policeman to watch him. 'What a dear, good woman! Shall you send him to prison, Admiral Merrifield? What can be done to him? said Arthurine, not looking at all as if she would like to abrogate capital punishment. 'Well, I had been thinking, said the Admiral.
He stuttered and coughed, and stood at ease, for the effort to remain at attention was beyond him. "Halt! Stand to attention!" thundered the non-commissioned officer. "Now, your report. There was incipient mutiny amongst the prisoners, eh?" The guard shook his head and spluttered; even now he was unable to command so much as a single word. "No!
You've been robbing me for years, you blackguard!" James Hutchings met the charge with complete calm. He shook his head and said in a surly tone: "No; I haven't done anything of the kind, m'lord." The flat denial infuriated his master yet more. He spluttered and was for a while incoherent. Then he became again articulate and said: "You have, you rogue!
And he did not like to look into Timothy Turtle's blinking eyes. "How did you know?" he asked Mr. Turtle. "Mrs. Turtle told me," said Timothy, shifting his hold slightly, for a better one. "How did the old lady know who took her eggs?" Fatty persisted. "Mr. Crow saw everything that happened and don't you call my wife an old lady!" Timothy Turtle spluttered. "Very well!
"Teeth?" spluttered the genteel lunatic; "teeth?" "Yes," cried Turnbull, advancing on him swiftly and with animated gestures, "why does teething hurt? Why do growing pains hurt? Why are measles catching? Why does a rose have thorns? Why do rhinoceroses have horns? Why is the horn on the top of the nose? Why haven't I a horn on the top of my nose, eh?"
"For not dilly-dallying and not hanging to a woman's apron strings. The Service before everything. Thanks, thanks!" And he went on writing, so that his quill spluttered and squeaked. "If you have anything to say, say it. These two things can be done together," he added. "About my wife... I am ashamed as it is to leave her on your hands..." "Why talk nonsense? Say what you want."
He broke out laughing again, his chunky body rolling about on the chair. "What are they?" "Three of them have sworn to slay Sinbad, and four of them have sworn to slay me.... But that's too complicated to tell at lunch time.... Eighth: there are the lady relievers, Sinbad's specialty. Ninth: there's Sinbad...." "Shut up, Heinz, you're getting me maudlin," spluttered Henslowe.
Yet the scanty meal they ate with the monks in the ancient room was enlivened by the eager yet quiet questioning of David, to whom the monks responded with more spirit than had been often seen in this arid retreat. The single torch which spluttered from the wall as they drank their coffee lighted up faces as strange, withdrawn, and unconsciously secretive as ever gathered to greet a guest.
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