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In the next place the use of Modesty is to keep a man from writing an epic poem at all but, if he will have that impudence, why then he had better have the courage to plunge into the Castalian stream, like Virgil and Lucan, not crawl in funking and holding on by the Muse's apron-string. But excuse me quorsum haec tam putida tendunt?
Hastily dropping his eyes to the ground, Mr. Elder recovered his usual composure, and brushing past the soldier's wife left the store, while she entered the office where Mr. Swartz was. "Oot tam," he muttered as she entered. "I shall give dat clerk te tevil for sending dis voman to me. Sum peggar I vill pet." "I have called on you again, Mr. Swartz," Mrs. Wentworth began. Mr.
As the man turned towards us in his bowings and bendings, Tam suddenly sprang to his feet and shouted at him a piece of schoolboy rudeness then fashionable in Kirkcaple. 'Wha called ye partan-face, my bonny man? Then, clutching his lantern, he ran for dear life, while Archie and I raced at his heels. As I turned I had a glimpse of a huge figure, knife in hand, bounding towards us.
In those day there was no tobacco an' no rifle those was long tam 'go I don' know how long. "In those tam all the people he'll talk with Wiesacajac, an' Wiesacajac he'll be friendly all tam with these peoples. All the animal that'll live in the wood he'll do all right, too. This wissel is what you call ermine some tam. He'll be mighty smart animal.
No doubt she would understand in time. "Have you lived long in this place?" she asked. "Two, t'ree winter, mebbe." "Where do you live in the summer?" "Many place; Wá-sit-um-ó-wek; Wu-las-tukw; Beeg Lake, some tam." "Where is Big Lake?" "Way dere," and Kitty motioned westward. "Go dere bimeby." "You often meet white people, I suppose?" "A-ha-ha." "Do you and Sam always travel alone?
"Ye're wrong, sir-r," said Tam quietly; "the groond's a fine place to test a wee perambulator or a motor-car or a pair of buits but it's no' the place to test an aeroplane. The aeroplane an' the submarine maun be tried oot in their native eelements." "But suppose you did succeed in breaking something and you went to glory?"
'Tis all notes of excl'mation an' question mairks, with one full stop an' several semi-comatose crashes !" "Oh, for Heaven's sake, shut up, Tam!" said Blackie savagely. "Haven't you a cigar to fill that gap in your face?" "Aye," said Tam calmly, "did ye no' smell it?
"You don't go till to-morrow, that's true," said the other girl calmly, "and how have you rounded off all your little friendships?" There was just the slightest of pauses between the two last words. "You mean Lieutenant MacTavish?" asked Vera distraitly. "I mean Tam," said the girl with a nod. "Exactly what do you mean by 'rounded off'?" The other girl laughed.
He reached the machine and took one glance at the pilot. Then he turned to the mechanic who followed at his heels. "'Phone an ambulance," he said; "they've got Tam at last." For Tam sat limply in his seat, his chin on his breast, his hand still clasped about the bloody grip of his machine-gun. The matron beckoned Vera. "Here's your last job, Vera," she said with a smile.
Then one of the waving searchlights strayed in their direction, and down its white beam for the space of a hundred yards slid a ghostly white moth. It dipped suddenly and fell out of the light and in its wake, but above, burst three little green balls of fire Tam's totem and sign-manual. "Landing lights!" roared Blackie, and they had hardly been switched on when Tam swooped to the ground.
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