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But it had to be done there wasn't any sense in both of them, he and Ted, walking crippled when one of them might be able to doctor the other up by just giving up a little pride. He went on. "So I thought I'd just stay around here with a book or something get some tea from your mother, later, if she were here " "Why, I can do that much for you, Ollie, anyway. Let's have it now."
Two or three men stood by with sharp knives in their hands. Riley saw Ted and the boys pushing rapidly through the crowd. "Cut her loose!" shouted Riley, and the balloon shot upward, amid the shouts of the people. "Too late," said Ben. "Not yet," cried Ted, spurring through the crowd. A long guide rope was dragging from the car of the balloon. "Follow me, Bud.
"Thank you," said he behind her. "I'll try to prove myself worthy of the trust." "Rufus! Dare you to run down the hill to that big tree with me!" Ted, no longer interested in this tame conclusion of what had promised to be an exciting encounter, challenged his sister.
He had no sooner done so than Wiley Creviss made a rush at him from the front, while one of the crowd ran in on him from the rear. It seemed an unequal beginning, and Ted was preparing to take on the second fellow. But Jack had seen him out of the corner of his eye, and as he came on the Boston boy stepped backward and threw his right elbow up.
Stuart raised his eyes and dropped them again, and Clay sighed. "I'm sorry," he said. MacWilliams interrupted them in an indignant stage-whisper. "Say, how long have we got to keep up this fake game?" he asked. "I don't know anything about dominoes, and neither does Ted. Tell us what you've been saying. Is there going to be trouble? If there is, Ted and I want to be in it.
Jennings again. I didn't think anybody could 'ave parted us like that." Ted said it was all nonsense, but it was no good, and the next night he went off alone and came back very cross, saying that Mrs. Jennings 'ad been with 'em all the time, and when 'e spoke to Emma about it she said it was just tit for tat, and reminded 'im 'ow she had 'ad to put up with Charlie.
The heat and confinement of the crowded schoolroom had not lessened the superabundance of energy and high spirits amongst them, and the boys soon congregated on the green, bent on a game of cricket. 'Where's Teddy? 'Teddy Platt! 'Young Ted, where's he got to? 'Fetch Teddy! This was the general cry. But Teddy was nowhere to be seen. 'Has he been kept in? queried one. 'Likely enough.
"Would you let me know your raison, if you plaise?" "If I plaise ay, you did well to put that in, for I don't plaise to let you know any more about it. I laughed bekaise I liked to laugh; an' I hope one may do that 'ithout being brought over the coals about it. Go to bed, an' give me another glass o' whiskey, Ted it always makes me sleep." Ted had been for some minutes evidently ruminating.
He could reach second base with a forearm throw while squatting on his heels, and a snap of the wrist was enough to send the ball to first or to third. "He's got an awfully strong arm," said Don to himself. "All right, Don," called Ted. He shed his sweater and went back to the mound. One by one the batters were called in to hit against him.
"It was on the occasion of the marriage of his only daughter to a handsome and agreeable young man, the most eligible parti of the neighbourhood." "That was you and me," Nell explained, contentedly. "Well, you are a vain old boy!" "No interruptions, please," Ted went on, pulling at his pipe.
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