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"Waal, I can do that, I guess, when we git to the landin'. I keep an extra pair or two for emergencies. But it's gittin' awful black, Chillis, an' I don't envy you the trip up the creek. It's crooked as a string o' S's, an' full o' shoals, to boot." "It won't be shoal to-night," remarked Chillis, and relapsed into silence. In a few minutes the boat's bow touched the bank.
"Why d' ye come a-bustin' in hyar that thar way, Sol?" his mother demanded rather tartly. "Ef ye hed been raised 'mongst the foxes, ye couldn't show less manners." "Door slipped out'n my hand," said Sol, a trifle sullenly. "Waal air ye disabled anywhar so ez ye can't shet it, eh?" asked his father, with a touch of sarcasm.
"Thet's all right," spoke up Reddy, "but ef yuh can remember that far back, you'll rec-lect that his pals told us he held a world's record fer five miles. Waal, now, they must 'a' been lots o' professionals runnin' thet distance, and in spite of everythin' they never did no better'n thet. What've yuh got to say t' that, eh?"
"Leaping Horse agrees with his white brother, Straight Harry, whose mind he knows." "Waal, go on then, Harry," Sam said. "I thought that you had made an end of it or I wouldn't have opened out. I don't see no way out of it at present, but if you do I am ready to fall in with it whatever it is." "I see but one way out of it, boys.
"Waal this is a ghost story and ghosts don't move fast." "Ho! ho!" laughed Bellew hollowly. "As I was sayin', grandpop didn't like the idee of some night seeing a tall form, all in white, come gliding down among them tombstones, and raising its hand cry to him in a solemn voice " "Wow." The shout came from Summers. He had suddenly felt something light on his shoulder.
"I know he has done so," replied Mr. de Waal, "but I will make a declaration on my oath. A committee was then appointed," he went on, "which waited on the Prime Minister and presented to him this very same petition. Sir Gordon Sprigg, however, said that he would not be ruled by anyone, because they had a responsible Government.
The Flemish earth seemed to have bubbles as the water hath, and while Mondragon was beating the air in vain on the margin of the Scheld, Maurice was back again upon the Waal, horse, foot, and artillery, bag, baggage, and munition, and had fairly set himself down in earnest to besiege Nymegen, before the honest burghers and the garrison had finished drawing long breaths at their recent escape.
Taft, "that beans is good for everybody 't don't make no difference whether he's well or sick. Why, I've known a thousand folks waal, mebbe not quite a thousand; but waal, now, jest to show, take the case of Bill Holbrook, you remember Bill, don't ye?" "Bill Holbrook?" said Mr. Ezra Eastman. "Why, of course I do. Used to live down to Brimfield, next to Moses Howard farm."
Waal, that disaccommodated the gals mightily, an' they hed a heap more interes' in that old wagin, all smellin' rank with wagin-grease an' tar, than they did in thar lovyers; an' they hed ruther hev hearn that old botch of a wheel that Pete Rodd hed set onto it com in' a-creakin' an' a-com-plainin' along the road than the sweetest words them boys war able ter make up or remember.
There were several courses open to the prince before taking the field. It was desirable to obtain control of the line of the Waal, by which that heart of the republic Holland would be made entirely secure. To this end, Gertruydenberg lately surrendered to the enemy by the perfidy of the Englishman Wingfield, to whom it had been entrusted Bois le Duc, and Nymegen were to be wrested from Spain.
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