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The heart is a five, the dot a zero, and backward sevens with one squiggle are twos. So the number is 5022. Right?" "That's the way I remember it," Scotty said. "So that's the number. Enshallah." Hassan started laughing in the front seat. "Now you speak Arabic? You must say a'eraf shwayet 'arabi." "What does that mean?" Scotty demanded. "It mean 'I know some Arabic'" The boys laughed with him.
It was easy to identify them, and Rick had spotted the five, a figure like a tiny heart, upside down. "I think I have it," he said. "Let's see. Arabic reads from right to left, instead of the way we write. That makes this number ... hmmmm ... a heart, a dot, and two sevens backward with one squiggle in the upper line.
Why, for the fun o't to see me squiggle," the boy replied, and laughed bitterly. "Yo' shouldna speak so o' your dad, David," reproved the other as severely as was in her nature. "Dad! a fine dad! I'd dad him an I'd the chance," the boy muttered beneath his breath. Then, to turn the conversation: "Us should be startin', Maggie," he said, and going to the door. "Bob! Owd Bob, lad!
It was an arranged squiggle painfully acquired in youth, which through life had resulted in all kinds of difficulties with tradespeople, and in continual annoyance and inconvenience to herself. Letters and parcels were frequently directed to her as A. Buller, Esq. She could only account for this mistake by the business-like nature of her style and handwriting.
It was a matter of policy to go with caution, and a thing of some moment to hear the thud and splintering of little distant icefalls about one in the darkness. Now and again a cold arrow of wind would sing down from the frosty peaks above or jerk with a squiggle of laughter among the fallen slabs in the valley. And these were the only voices to prick me on through a dreariness lonely as death.
But at this moment the Lamb saw them, and plunged towards the carpet, shrieking, 'Panty, own Panty an' Pussy, an' Squiggle an' Bobs, oh, oh! Anthea caught him and kissed him, so did Jane; they could not help it he looked such a darling, with his blue three-cornered hat all on one side, and his precious face all dirty quite in the old familiar way.
"Hey, this is a barbershop, and it's closed for the night." Rick looked, then switched on the dome light. He compared the letterhead number and the number on the door. Clearly, it was 5022, unless they had mistaken threes for twos. The only difference between the two numbers was an extra squiggle in the upper line of the three. He checked the letter again. No, they were twos. He said so.
He give a squiggle and lifted his head; and there was he and his friends a-lyin' on the snow of the high downs." "And the house and the gal?" "Narry a sign of either, sir, but just the sky and the white stretch; and one other thing." "And what was that?" "A stain of red sunk in where the cup had spilt." There was a second pause, and the banjo blew into the bowl of his pipe.
Even Penelope looked her very best in a clean brown holland frock, and she went quite creditably through her alphabet, and did not squiggle her pot-hooks quite as much as she had done on the previous day. Miss Tredgold was in an excellent humor.
But hay is better than a net, 'cept that it tickles you," and Bunny took from his neck some pieces of dried grass that made him wiggle, and "squiggle," as Sue called it. "Hello! What happened here?" asked a voice, and the children looked up to see, standing in the door of the barn, Grandpa Brown. "What happened?" asked the farmer. "Did you fall, Bunny?"