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"And go on with what you was goin' t'say. Only don't get swell-headed enough to think you're a man, agin. You ain't." "I've got this to say!" Mere type cannot reproduce the malevolence of Dunk's spluttering speech. "I've sent for the county sheriff and a dozen deputies to arrest you, and you, and you, damn you!"
He heard what sounded like a chuckling laugh back of him; and before he could turn some one gave him a strong push. Bluff went over with a splash into the lake. Bluff came up spluttering. "Help! help!" he shouted, involuntarily, as well as a mouth half full of water would permit. But there was no one in sight.
"Ach, holy Moses!" cried the Jew, refusing with spluttering indignation the half-a-crown change "Downy" received from Polly Nash, and which he handed to his other creditor with great gravity as an instalment of his claim. "He vill nevaire gome back to bay me."
"Worse and worse," said the Black Panther, as the boy rose spluttering. "First Baloo is to be skinned, and now he is a cocoanut. Be careful that he does not do what the ripe cocoanuts do." "And what is that?" said Mowgli, off his guard for the minute, though that is one of the oldest catches in the Jungle. "Break thy head," said Bagheera quietly, pulling him under again.
The college professor, like the ass he was, had upset his canoe. Varney halted, strode back to the rail. The professor came up spluttering, blowing quarts of water from his mouth and nose, making feeble strokes with his ineffective, collegiate arms. "Help!" he called in a thin watery voice. "Help! I can't swim." Whereon, he immediately bobbed under again.
He stood gazing at the insidious yet implacable agent of death, spluttering its tongue of flame at him like an angry snake; and, as he looked, his face was beaded with sweat, and seemed ashen in color. Then a sense of the dangers still surrounding them returned to his mind. He shook himself together, and, making a circuit of the room, found the switch and turned off the current.
Surplice bent backward, staring over his left, then his right, shoulder, pulled at his jacket first one way then the other thereby making his improvised tail to wag, which sent The Enormous Room into spasms of merriment finally caught sight of the incriminating appendage, pulled his coat to the left, seized the paper, tore it off, threw it fiercely down, and stamped madly on the crumpled 606; spluttering and blustering and waving his arms; slavering like a mad dog.
Up in our gallery pew we tried to decipher our chorales by the light of the spluttering tallow candles stuck in holes in the woodwork, the flames wildly blown about by the draughts. The wind banged against the windows in great gusts, screaming louder than the organ, and threatening to blow out the agitated lights together.
A minute later he thrust his head into the room the pup was in his arms, still wrapped in the blanket and spluttering gratefully through the dressings, "I got 'im, Doc, good-bye," away went Private Toban en route to Blighty. The Incorrigible. Private Saunders of the th Canadian battalion was a hopeless alcoholic.
The monsters floundered in deep water, snorting and spluttering, while their fellows on the shore checked themselves violently and drew back bawling with bewilderment.
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