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If he wants a wife he appears before the kennel of the gentleman whom he has selected for his father-in- law, attended by a party of male friends of a very strong flavour, who screech and whistle and stamp an offer of so many cows for the young lady's hand. The son-in-law and his select circle of backers screech, whistle, stamp, and yell in reply, that they will give three more cows.
Having pulled off their hats and stripped them to their corsets, their friends and backers released them with encouraging words and slaps on the back, just as dog-fighters set their dogs on each other.
"I was on the ground with my friends and backers before my adversary appeared. "`Don't make too much of a burst at first, said one boy; `play with him till you see what he's made of. "`I'd advise you to go in for sloggin', said another. "`Yes, knock the wind out of him at once, said Tadpole; `he's an English fellow, you know, and may bother you with science. "As he spoke Tom appeared.
The crowds of Indian gamblers, with much money and goods at hazard upon the event, some, indeed, having staked the clothes upon their backs, the rifles and powder for their winter hunt that should furnish them with food, were at once in a clamor of discussion as to the fair adjustment of the throw in the score. The backers of Wyejah claimed the accidental hit as genuine and closing the game.
This passive obedience confirmed me in my opinion that the disturbance had powerful backers, and that my garrison and I would have been held prisoner, had I not frightened the leaders by threatening to use all means, even fire rather than hand over to rioters the town confided to my charge.
Not only the Consul, but the Ambassador, the Minister, the Scholar, the Statesman, nay the Kaiser himself, were the inspirers, the partners, the backers of the German merchant. Marschall von Bieberstein once told me in Constantinople that his functions were those of a super-commercial traveller rather than ambassadorial. And he discharged them with efficiency.
A moment later, and we had gone upon that high barricade, some score of us, without backers in the street, to draw on us the enemy's whole fire, and very likely unless they had foolishly fled at our first rush to be all killed there. On the retreat, I with some others was ordered out of the ranks to pick up a wounded officer and carry him off the ground.
"I think," said the Doctor, "that your father loved your mother devotedly; but he was one of those fighters that for the first half-dozen rounds or so cause their backers much anxiety. It is a dangerous method." "Then you think my mother "
The few exceptions resulted in little else than trial boats which usually did not live up to the expectations of their inventors or their financial backers and were, therefore, discarded in quick order. In spite of this lack of actual results this particular period was of considerable importance to the later development of the submarine.
Eight or ten stout, resolute young men were then selected and formed in column to bring up the rear, and give such an impetus to those before them as to force them forward in spite of all opposing obstacles, till they reached the voters' stand in the house. "Ditter ready, boys?" now cried Dunning, firmly grasping Bart's legs, and glancing over his shoulders to his lusty little band of backers.
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