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"Well go ahead that way," he indicated, picking the most likely road. As the chauffeur was about to start, he stalled his engine. "Hurry!" urged Craig, exasperated at the delays. The driver got out and tried to crank the engine. Again and again he turned it over, but, somehow, it refused to start. Then he lifted the hood and began to tinker.
'Tinker Bell, he called softly, after making sure that the children were asleep, 'Tink, where are you? She was in a jug for the moment, and liking it extremely; she had never been in a jug before. 'Oh, do come out of that jug, and tell me, do you know where they put my shadow? The loveliest tinkle as of golden bells answered him. It is the fairy language.
And as to this particular house having a bad name, I reasoned with him, Why, how many things had bad names undeservedly, and how easy it was to give bad names, and did he not think that if he and I were persistently to whisper in the village that any weird-looking old drunken tinker of the neighbourhood had sold himself to the Devil, he would come in time to be suspected of that commercial venture!
To bring the matter to its true proportions, it must be remembered that to the view of the times the new constitution was but the latest attempt to tinker the federal scheme, and it was yet to be seen whether this endeavor would be any more successful than previous efforts had been.
And we wanted those boots and badges. "She got hold of a nugget that once, anyway," says Captain Bingo, blowing his nose emphatically; "and by the Living Tinker! if it had reached us in time, we'd have saved a loss of twenty-one killed and stripped, and twenty-two wounded, and the stingin' shame of a whippin' into the bargain."
As thus he walked up a forest path, whistling, down another path came the Tinker, muttering to himself and shaking his head like an angry bull; and so, at a sudden bend, they met sharply face to face. Each stood still for a time, and then Robin spoke: "Halloa, my sweet bird," said he, laughing merrily, "how likest thou thine ale? Wilt not sing to me another song?"
Another figure waded ashore and joined the two men, a tall, bearded fellow in duffel overalls. As his feet reached the sand he spat ostentatiously. The tinker led the way to the cart. "It is dark," said the first man from the sea. "How many cans have you got?" "Forty-eight. I could get no more without exciting suspicion. They have requisitioned one of my cars as it is."
"I thought you did all your own repairing." "I do when there ain't nothing bad wrong." "You sailed the Jennie P. all the way into the city and left it there?" "Something went wrong with the engine, and I didn't have no time to tinker with her afore I had to come back. Them there gas engines is worse than a team of mules when they get to bucking and balking. They " "Captain Pott! Tell me the truth.
"If they had they wouldn't do for critics. They wouldn't have the heart." "They oughtn't to have so much power!" the young man exclaimed passionately. "Think of a playwright working on his play two years, maybe night after night and then, all in one swoop, these fellows that you say don't know anything " "Power!" Potter laughed contemptuously. "Tinker, you're in your dotage!
Traveller then whispered in few words what he had done since morning; and asked the Tinker what he thought of that? "I think," returned the Tinker, as he turned from the window, "that you've wasted a day on him." "I think so too; though not, I hope, upon myself. Do you happen to be going anywhere near the Peal of Bells?" "That's my direct way, sir," said the Tinker. "I invite you to supper there.
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