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Waal, they walked several mile, an' time they got ter the crest o' the hill over yander the moon hed riz, an' they could look down an' see the mist in the valley. The moon war bright in the buryin'-groun' when they passed it, an' the head-boards stood up white an' stiff, an' a light frost hed fell on the mounds, an' they showed plain, an' shone sorter lonesome an' cold.
I don't want to be taxed, but I don't see why the colonists should not pay something toward the expenses of the government; and now that Parliament seems willing to give all we ask for, I don't see what we want to go on fighting for." "Waal!" Peter exclaimed in a tone of disgust, "you're one of the half-hearted ones." "I am like the great majority of the people of this country.
"You're mistaken, Mister er Mister " "Hardy," put in the little man. "Ah yes Hardy, eh? And a dam' good name, too. I served under a captain by that name at old Fort Grant, thirty years ago. Waal, Hardy, I like y'r face you look honest but I wanner ask you 'nuther question why don't you drink now, then?"
After entering Holland it divides into two branches, the Waal flowing to the west and uniting with the Maas. The smaller branch to the right is still called the Rhine, and throws off another branch, the Yssel, which flows into the Zuider Zee.
She flashed her great eyes at him with a pretended stare of surprise. "My no!" she exclaimed. "We-uns hev hed the comet ter keep us comp'ny we ain't missed nobody!" He laughed a little, as at a repartee, and then went on: "Waal, the comic war a-cuttin' a pretty showy figger down yander at Colbury. 'Ston-ishin' how much store folks do 'pear ter set on it!
"Waal, I run a taxicab onct," was the reply, in a low tone, however, "but that's all the chauffering I ever done. You see, I went broke in San Antone, and " "All right; all right," snapped Ralph impatiently. "Say, you people, you'd better get out of the car, while I tinker this up." "Is it a bad bust-up?" puffed Buck Bradley, clambering out.
Maurice had confided the defence of the Waal to Warner Du Bois, under whose orders he placed a force of about seven thousand men, and whose business it was to prevent Bucquoy's passage. His own task was to baffle Spinola.
On the other side of the quadrilateral, Maurice's dispositions were as effective as those of his lieutenant on the Waal.
"What is the reason, John?" "Waal, hit's like this: a plumb cur, of course, cain't foller a cold track he just runs by sight; and he won't hang he quits. But, t'other way, no hound 'll raelly fight a bear hit takes a big severe dog to do that. Hounds has the best noses, and they'll run a bear all day and night, and the next day, too; but they won't never tree they're afeared to close in.
"Waal, you see, lad, the force of the wind acting on sech a big sheet of ice will move it, and like enough you'd see it piled up in a bank forty feet high on this side of the lake, and there'll be a strip of clear water half a mile wide on the other. That's why we must take the canoe." Harold was silent.
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