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"What gal's currls be you referrin' to Jabe?" interrupted Andy Mitchell. "Suthin' finer 'n horse-hair, anyways!" was the prompt retort; and a laugh went round the camp at Andy's expense. Then Batterpole continued: "When we come to Hardscrabble it was sundown, so we tied up the raft an' teetered up the hill to Old Man Peters's fur the night.
Pierre broadside. "Helm hard alee!" shouts Radisson in the teeth of the gale. For the fraction of a second we were driving before the oncoming rush. Then the sea rose up in a wall on our rear. There was a shattering crash. The billows broke in sheets of whipping spray. The decks swam with a river of waters. One gun wrenched loose, teetered to the roll, and pitched into the seething deep.
Rhoda screamed and lunged at Dennis' legs. "No! No! Stop it! Please!" Dennis teetered under her weight and the knife slanted downward across Frank's chest. It ripped a red gash as the door shuddered a third time. Dennis turned in that direction and crouched. The door splintered and flew open. Dennis lunged, like a line-bucking football player.
Then in alternation, "Ladies, forward to the centre back " and as the mountain damsels teetered in expectation of the usual supplement of this mandate he called out in apparent expostulation, "Don't swing him, Miss he don't wuth a turn." Suddenly the tune changed and with great gusto he chanted forth: "When fust I did a-courtin' go, Says she 'Now, don't be foolish, Joe,"
We scowled at it, and stuck out our mouths at it, and shrieked at it, and bawled at it, and did the very best we knew to give an imitation of two hundred little pigs all grabbed by the hind leg at once. That was what made folks call it a concert. There were addresses to the dear children by persons that teetered on their toes and dimpled their cheeks in dried-apple smiles as us.
His heart had warmed to the tattered outcast at his side, who had been the means to this glorious end. It had been all over, accomplished; now it was again thrust back into the scales, where it dangled as insecure as ever. It wasn't the money alone that teetered in the balance, but the honor of Allis Porter's brother.
No tiger out of the jungle could hold more rage and fury than animated those feathered atoms, bristled up even to the heads, which looked as if covered with velvet caps. They paused an instant, then crouched, jerked their tails, "teetered" and posed in several attitudes, ending each new movement with a solemn bow, perhaps equivalent to a handshake among larger fighters.
From Hull's red face the color fled. He teetered for a moment on the balls of his feet, then sank limply to the cement bench in front of him. He tried to gasp out a denial, but the words would not come. In his throat there was only a dry rattle. He heard, as from a long distance, Lane's voice addressing him. "We've got it on you, Hull. Come through an' come clean."
But all the beauty of it was a beauty of wildness and of nature's victory over man. For such beauty Ham felt no answer of pulse or heart. Of the cabins he passed, most were empty and those quiet vandals, Weather and Decay, were noiselessly at work wrecking them. Here a door swung askew; there a chimney teetered.
Bea suddenly tipped back in her chair, teetered to and fro for a frantic moment, then brought it down with a bump on all four feet. "Nonsense!" she snapped. Lila stood motionless so long that Bea had time to notice the ticking of her watch. Then she turned slowly around from the window. "And this is friendsh " "Oh!" squealed Bea, "oh, oh, oh! Ha, ha, ha!"
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