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"Mean it!" ejaculated Madison. "You're the whole thing, Flopper you win. Come on now, Helena, buck up we've got another little act due in about fifteen minutes don't let a lot of yowling rubes get your goat. Why, say, we've got the whole show on the stampede and we've got to rush our luck." "Sure!" said the Flopper.
For after all, these people may be right; and certainly I cannot go so far as to say they are wrong." Jurgen shrugged. "But still, at the same time !" Now in returning to his cabin Jurgen heard a frightful sort of yowling and screeching as of mad people. "Hail, daughter of various-formed Protogonus, thou that takest joy in mountains and battles and in the beating of the drum!
Often she was alone, sometimes she was with some better kind of black girl, and she would stand a long time and watch the men working at unloading, and see the steamers do their coaling, and she would listen with full feeling to the yowling of the free swinging negroes, as they ran, with their powerful loose jointed bodies and their childish savage yelling, pushing, carrying, pulling great loads from the ships to the warehouses.
He could hear his tireless escorts of the past week yowling a mile or more away in the rear. Having built and lighted a fire of pine-knots, he called the dogs about him to be fed. Jan seemed disinclined to answer the call, being still busily questing to and fro. Willis had to call him separately and sternly. "You stay right here," he said, sharply.
He has the strength of ten! First in war, first in peace, First in the hearts of his countrymen." "Get out!" roared the King. "Your Majesty?" quavered the leader of the minstrels. "Make a noise like an egg and beat it!" By the beard of the sacred goat, it's tough! What in the name of Belus and Hec do you mean, you yowling misfits, by starting that sort of stuff when a man's swinging?
At that, there was more help than could be made to avail, and the battens and wedges were in place in a trice. That this was no sooner accomplished than need be, we had immediate proof; for there came a rending of wood and a splintering of glass, and after that a strange yowling out in the dark, and the yowling rose above and drowned the continuous growling that filled the night.
"The black snake wasn't poisonous, of course," continued Uncle Andy, "but his fangs hurt the Little Sly One's nose, I can tell you. But the worst of it was, how he could squeeze! Those black coils tightened, tightened, till the Little Sly One, who in her first fright had set up a terrific spitting and yowling, found she had no breath to waste on noise. Her ribs felt as if they would crack.
And, immediately, he began with his cutlass to strike at the tree before us, and to cry upon God to blast it; and lo! at his smiting a very fearsome thing happened, for the tree did bleed like any live creature. Thereafter, a great yowling came from it, and it began to writhe. And, suddenly, I became aware that all about us the trees were a-quiver.
The dog, although a large and powerful retriever, whimpered, trembled and crawled up close. The sound increased in volume. The yowling meouw came louder, louder and nearer, then suddenly clear and close, as though the creature had rounded a point and entered an opening. It was positively blood-curdling now.
I just wanted you to know, so if you feel you ought to bother " "Annie gone?" Even in his preoccupation the mews came with a stab. "When did she go?" "We don't know. She set up an awful yowling when you boys went to work. And the dog commenced howling, till it was simply awful. So we rode in to town after the mail, and when we came back she was gone, bag and baggage.
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