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"Get on with it," he tail-wagged at them furiously; "get on with it, for Heaven's sake! Don't stand there looking at one another. . . ." "I think," his master was speaking in a voice that shook, "I think the metal squeak has fallen inside the animal's tummy. . . ." "You ought to have been a vet," answered the girl, and her voice was very low. "Give it to me; my finger is smaller."
"I am what I am. . . . And just as with that fly, fate comes along suddenly, doesn't it, and pouf . . . it's all over! All its little worries settled for ever in a carp's tummy. If only one's own troubles could be settled quite as expeditiously. . . ." He looked at her curiously. "It helps sometimes, Joan, to shoot your mouth, as our friends across the water say.
A minute afterward she slid the savory food from a skewer upon one of the pie pans, tossed back the cover from the little table, stacked some bread-and-butter sandwiches beside the meat and handed the pan to Donald. "Fall to," she said, "and prove that you're a man with an appreciative tummy. Father used to be positively ravenous for this stuff. I like it myself."
"The feeding-hour's past, dear boy," said he, blinking at me anxiously, "and the regular meal's over. I'm afraid I've strained our credit a bit to-day. Don't you think the best thing we can do is to stroll down to the cutter, fill your tummy on corned horse there, and help me slip moorings unostentatiously after dark?
If we could get at our guns there was no sayin' what we could do. "So I broke away early this mornin', gave my guard a kick in the tummy that laid him out, and sprinted for the camp. There I got you and the guns, and here we are." "But the professors!" I cried, in consternation. "Well, we must just go back and fetch 'em. I couldn't bring 'em with me.
He had been there all the summer, all the autumn, and all the No, by whiskers! he was not going to remain there all the winter. He had his limit, and he hated cold; and here, down by the flat, sodden, mud-choked shore of the estuary, it was so cold that if you didn't jolly well mind what you were up to and keep your tummy always full, you went to sleep, and never woke up any more.
To-day I had the funniest experience of my life got caught in a Hun curtain of fire and had to lie on my tummy for two hours in a trench with the shells bursting five yards from me and never a scratch. You know how I used to wonder what I'd do under such circumstances. Well, I laughed.
He didn't want to take the seat of the old Billiken when the old fellow had sat there for three thousand years and more. Billiken, however, had an idea about that. Probably he thought he had been sitting there long enough, for he uncrossed his stone arms from his stone tummy, unwriggled his stone feet, and stood up, stretching and yawning.
Peter Tounley walked close to him and scanned him imperturbably, but with care. " What's up, Phidias ? " The man made no articulate reply. He continued to grin and gesture. "Pain in oo tummy? Mother dead? Caught the cholera? Found out that you've swallowed a pair of hammered brass and irons in your beer? Say, who are you, anyhow? " But he could not shake this invincible glee, so he went away.
"Were you at the war?" he demanded. "Yes." "Did you kill a German?" "I've seen a German killed," said Grant, evading a question which no soldier cares to discuss. "Did you kill 'em in the tummy?" the boy persisted. "We'll talk about that to-morrow. Now you hop up on to my shoulders, and I'll tie the horses and then carry you home."
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