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"I was goin' to ask you to lend me a hunderd, Andy." Andy wriggled a little. "You don't hev to go," he said feebly. "If he needs me, I'll have to. I ain't ever been needed much livin' alone so. You don't know how 't is. You have somebody to need you. Harriet needs you " "Lord, yes, Harr'et needs me. Don't doubt she needs me this minute pail o' water or suthin'." Andrew chuckled gloomily.

His hands were hanging loosely at his sides and he was seemingly unconcerned by what confronted him. Suddenly his eyes flickered to the bushes at one side. Had Ricky betrayed herself, Val wondered breathlessly. Clear now of the cabin, Val wriggled his way around the platform. In a minute he would be able to see the Boss and Red. He gripped the club. Then Jeems stared straight into his face.

Johnson was saved from stammering explanations by the irruption of Beautiful Dog, who at sound of his voice had wriggled, and cringed, and fawned his way out of the shrubbery, cocking a wary eye to see that none of the Black family was around. Beautiful Dog rolled his eyes at his god, swung his tail, waggled his ears, made uncouth movements with his splay feet, and grinned from ear to ear.

Gustav twisted round and tried to get upon his feet, but could not free his head. Then he wriggled back into this position again as quickly as a cat, turned a backward somersault over his antagonist, and fell down upon him with his face toward the other's. Anders tried to raise his feet to receive him, but was too late.

Then he came and supplicated Coleman as if he were hawking him to look at a relic and Coleman moved by a strong, mysterious impulse, went forward to look at the poor little clay-coloured body. At that moment a snake ran out from a tuft of grass at his feet and wriggled wildly over the sod.

But he had taken great care to leave a crack which would only allow a little person like Mäzli to slip through without sticking fast in the opening. Mäzli wriggled through and started to run away. The next moment the door was closed again. "Do you think I intend to squeeze myself through, too? You do not need to bolt it, Mr. Trius," Apollonie said, much offended.

"Well done, Madge," Dicky whispered mischievously, as, after we had been seated, I let my cloak drop from my shoulders without arising. "You wriggled that off in the most approved manner." "I ought to," I whispered back. "I've watched other women with envious attention during all the lean years, when I wore tailor-mades to mill and to meeting." Dicky squeezed my hand under cover of the cloak.

"Ere, one o' you kids, fetch me a bit o' chalk. I 'ate to see you idlin' your time away, gamblin' and dicin', like the Profligate Son when he broke the bank at Monte Carlo." He mounted the platform. "While Ginger's gettin' the chalk I'll ask you a question or two to testify your general knowledge." He took the cigarette out of his mouth, and wriggled his chin above his high collar. "Who done Mr.

But I won't have tea, if you please. Won't have tea. I drink milk milk. A lot of milk. I'm a great milk-drinker." The Rose wriggled. George thumped the basket. "As soon as you like, Mrs. Pinner. As quick as you like!" Mrs. Pinner closed the door; the Rose advertised her feelings in a long, penetrating mi-aow. In an agony of strained listening George held his breath. But Mrs.

"Or when at public meetings an eel stood up on end, and wriggled and squirmed lithely in every direction, and declared that, for his part, he went in for rainbows and hot water how could I help seeing that he was still black and loved a slimy pool?