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Beeg medicine-dance dere see heem once long tam' 'go leetle boy me beeg medicine Indian debbil stay dere Indian much scare' only go when mak' beeg tam' beeg medicine." "Let me see if I get you, Jerry. A bad trail leads half a day north from the Bow at Kananaskis to Ghost River, eh?" Jerry nodded. "Then up the Ghost River westward through the bearded trees half a day to the Manitou Rock?
In the two first acts of Pericles there are faint and rare but evident and positive traces of a passing touch from the hasty hand of Shakespeare: even here too we may say after Dido: Nec tam aversus equos Tyria sol jungit ab urbe.
"Don't let Colonel Cavendish hear you," he cautioned. "Seriously now, he'd let Pierce go if he could; he told me so. He'll undoubtedly allow him the freedom of the Barracks, so he'll really be on parole until his trial." "Trial? You goin' try him again?" The woodsman could make little of the affair. "If you try him two tam, dose crook is mak' t'ief of Pierce for sure. One trial is plenty.
In the same area where he had met the guns before, they opened upon him. He circled round and located six pieces. Which of these was "Annie"? One he could silence at terrible risk to himself, but no more. To drop down, on the off-chance of finding his quarry, was taking a gambler's chance, and Tam prided himself that he was no gambler. That the gun was there, he knew.
The sun beat down with noontide force, when on that fourth day, turning from its scorching, his languid eye espied a sail on the northern horizon. 'See, he cried; 'that is not the way of the Moors. 'Bismillah! I beg your pardon, sir, cried Tam, but said no more, only looked intently.
Apparently he found no difficulty in getting rid of Supple Tam, and recovering possession of his former Bucephalus, for he accomplished the exchange without being many minutes absent; nor did I hear further of his having paid any smart-money for breach of bargain. We now set forward, but had not reached the top of the street in which Mr.
As they rounded the last corner on the homeward stretch, she turned to Betty Wales, her eyes shining softly and her hair blown into distracting waves under her fluffy white tam. "It is fun, Betty," she said. "Flat-car and all, though why it should be, I'm sure I don't see, and last year it wasn't for me."
Looking down he saw fifty stabbing pencils of flame flickering from fifty A-A guns. Every available piece of anti-aircraft artillery was turned upon the fleecy mass. As Tam circled he saw white specks rising swiftly from the direction of the aerodrome and knew that the fighting squadron, full of fury, was on its way up.
Aitken smoked in silence for a time; then he said, 'I'll tell you another thing. I believe there's a diamond mine. I've often meant to go up and look for it. Tam and I pressed him to explain, which he did slowly after his fashion. 'Did you ever hear of I.D.B. illicit diamond broking? he asked me.
It was a white mat, and on it I read a word which evidently he meant me to take as his name: TAM HTAB. For an instant it seemed to me a fine name for an Egyptian god, though I hadn't met it before. Then I burst out laughing disrespectfully. "Why, you're only a Bath Mat wrong side out!" I heard myself sneering; and the god disappeared as a flash of lightning comes and is gone.
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