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"See here!" he called, after he had moved forward a few steps; "if you see any boy raggeder than you are yourself, bring him along, bring every boy and girl you meet who haven't anywhere else to go." "Ho!" said Tip, as soon as the gentleman was at safe distance; "if this isn't rich, then I don't know, fireworks in that great yard, pretty near the fountain maybe, and lots of fun.
"I, Capitola Black, say that Donald Bayne, not having deserved to be hanged, shall not be hanged! And in one way or another I'll keep my word!" And Cap did her best to keep it. The next morning she mounted Gyp and rode up to Tip Top, where she employed the village lawyer to draw up a petition to the Governor for the commutation of Donald Bayne's sentence.
Secluded, off the beaten path, you know, and all that." "Yes," sneered the mayor, "as secluded as a Sunday-school the Sunday before Christmas." "Well, who could have guessed it?" went on Mr. Bland. "As I say, I don't care what you do. I just passed you the tip. I've got that nice little package of the long green I've got it where you'll never find it.
'I wonder how it feels to be a lion, thought the boy, after he had gone a little way; and he took out the tip of the ear from the breast of his jacket and wished with all his might. In an instant his head had swollen to several times its usual size, and his neck seemed very hot and heavy; and, somehow, his hands became paws, and his skin grew hairy and yellow.
Benjamin, with a sudden recurrence of youthful feeling, made a fan with the fingers of his right hand, the second phalanx of the thumb resting on the tip of the nose, and the remaining digits diverging from each other, in the plane of the median line of the face, I suppose this is the way he would have described the gesture, which is almost a specialty of the Parisian gamin.
The thought infuriated him, and he gave the prostrate figure a heavy kick that almost turned it over, and the words, "Duty to employers," gurgled out of its mouth directly. It really seemed as if these sounds were independent of the mind, and resided at the tip of Hudson's tongue, so that a thorough good kick could, at any time, shake them out of his inanimate body.
Taffy had it on the tip of his tongue to tell her about the collar. He wished he had brought it. "I wonder," she went on pensively, "your mother had the heart to dress you out in that style. But I suppose now you'll be growing up into quite a common boy." Taffy decided to say nothing about the collar. "I like the clothes," he declared defiantly.
"Take a straight tip from me. Keep off the drink!" It was in the afternoon of this same day a day so momentous in the lives of more than one of London's millions that two travelers might have been seen to descend from a first-class compartment of the Dover boat-train at Charing Cross.
It has one horn about a cubit long which is solid, but has a furrow from the base to the tip. Upon it is traced in white lines the figure of a man.
He had badly cut both the deer-hounds, however, which had been the first to seize him: Weldon's fox-hounds, having more experience with this sort of game, had kept clear of his claws. It was a fine male, measuring eight feet from the nose to the tip of the tail, and we took the skin for a trophy. The tenacity of life in these large cats is very great.
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