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All three went now knee-deep in the surf, and Du Mesne, clinging to the gunwale as he passed out, was soon waist deep, and time and again lost his footing in the flood. "Pull!" he cried at last. "Now, en avant!" He had flung himself over the stern, and with his knife cut the hide rope of the anchor-stone.
She laughed as she struck at the goat with her empty gauntlet, and shrank back out of the way of his horns. There was no embarrassment over her informal dinner, eaten as she sat squat in a fence-corner, an anchor-stone for a table, and a pile of spars for a chair.
"Lie quietly in the bottom, sir, and let it float down till we are off the foot of the Doctor's garden, and then one of us will hold it ready and drop down the anchor-stone or the grapnel, and there we are." "But suppose some of the Malays are already in the house." "No, we won't, sir. We are not going to suppose anything of the kind. We are going to chance it, sir." "That's right, Pete.
"There, we'll be after puttin' it where Stumpy can't be rubbin' his nose in it" setting the pail, as she spoke, on a rough anchor-stone. Here the goat moved up, rubbing his head in the boy's face, and then reaching around for the pail. "Look at him, Patsy! Git out, ye imp, or I'll hurt ye! Leave that kiver alone!"
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