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"I forgive him freely," said Captain Scraggs, "an' here's my fin on it." The unfortunate mate hung his head. He was much moved. "You don't mean it, sir, do you?" he faltered. "I hope I may never see the back o' my neck if I don't," replied the skipper. "Surest thing you know, brother," shouted Mr. McGuffey and swatted the deluded mate between the shoulders. "Take her with our compliments.
The light of the stars, dimmed by a high, thin veil of mist, was not good enough to fight scientifically by. After the first clash it was almost impossible to know friend from foe at the length of an arm. Single combats, and cursing knots of threes and fours, staggered and swatted among the little dwellings.
"Oh," she said, this time with an accent of comprehension, though secretly his speech had been so much Greek to her and she was wondering what a lift was and what swatted meant. "This man Swineburne," he began, attempting to put his plan into execution and pronouncing the i long. "Who?" "Swineburne," he repeated, with the same mispronunciation. "The poet." "Swinburne," she corrected.
We expected to be walked on with wooden shoes, and from what we had heard of that Duke that married Queen Wilhelmina, we thought we were going to a country where men were cruel to their wives, and swatted them over the head when things didn't go right, but when we saw the queen riding with her husband, as free, from ostentation as a department store clerk would ride out with his cash girl wife, and saw happiness beaming on the face of the queen and her husband, and saw them squeeze hands and look lovingly into each other's eyes, we made up our minds that you couldn't believe these newspaper scandals.
If any of these white-corpuscled clams ever swatted a fly, it was much as they could do. The thing was ridiculous on the face of it. If they were capable of murder, they would have murdered Alf Brooks. He stood in the road, and looked up at the placid buildings resentfully. 'Grr-rr-rr! he growled, and kicked the side-walk.
Harnden had a model of the apparatus. With his forefinger he kept tripping the doors, showing how a person's weight operated the contrivance, shutting the doors behind and simultaneously opening the doors in front; but Mr. Harnden did not draw attention to the palpable fact that a waiter would need to have the agility of a flea to escape being swatted in the rear or banged in the face. Mr.
The next moment the flashlights carried by Will and George swept into the cavern, revealing the true condition of affairs. The two boys sprang to Sandy's side and raised him into a sitting position. Sandy smiled weakly but said nothing. "Where is he hurt?" asked Will, facing Tommy. Tommy pointed to the boy's bleeding shoulder. "One of the bears swatted him," he said.
He swatted us, and we deserved it, but he didn't get angry. Every time he banged us, he'd look at me as much as to say: 'I hate to swat you two, but it's got to be done. Bang! 'This hurts me more than it does you. Biff! And then he went out smiling.
"Well, then, Curly," said Franklin, again addressing himself to his witness, "please tell us how long you have known this prisoner." "Ever since we was kids together. He used to be a mozo on my pap's ranch, over in San Saba County." "Did you ever know him to receive any injury, any blow about the head?" "Well, onct ole Hank Swartzman swatted him over the head with a swingletree.
We had the worst time at Akron last week and pa proved himself a hero, though he was swatted good by the rogue elephant before he got his second wind and went for the animal. We have a male elephant that is almost human, 'cause he gets on a tear about once a month, like a regular ugly husband.
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