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Yes, it certainly would wake some of 'em up. But what about the slow match? We've got no fuse. Ken held out an old-fashioned candle lantern. 'I bagged this from the sentry. There's just half an inch of candle in it. We've nothing to do but lay a train of loose powder up to it. Roy chuckled again. 'You're a bad 'un to beat, Ken. Yes, that ought to work. Let's get at it.
Then there were little excursions to make down moist ravines, where an antelope might be bagged for the larder; or up to some dry-looking flat, shut in by the hills, where grouse might be put up amongst the sage-brush and other thin growth, for six hard-working men out in these brisk latitudes consume a great deal of food, and the stores in the waggon had to be saved as much a possible.
Eugene was at last angry. He was silent for a moment. Then he said: "I see. I must congratulate you." "On what?" "On having bagged a brace without accident to yourself. But I have had enough of it." And without waiting for a reply to this very rude speech, he rose and flung himself across the lawn into the house. Claudia seemed less angry than she ought to have been.
"Do you remember what that airship captain said the day we bagged him?" chuckled Billy. "About it being impossible for Americans to get to France?" asked Bart. "You bet I do. I'll never forget that boob. I wonder if he still believes it." "He'd sing a different tune if he were here to-day," observed Tom. "I don't know," laughed Frank. "The German skull is pretty thick.
"What! we who have climbed the Pyramids, and sailed up the Nile, and seen magic at Cairo, and been nearly murdered, bagged, and Bosphorized at Constantinople, is it for us, who have gone through so many adventures, looked on so many scenes, and crowded into four years events that would have satisfied the appetite of a cormorant in romance, if it had lived to the age of a phoenix; is it for us to be doing the pretty and sighing to the moon, like a black-haired apprentice without a neckcloth on board of the Margate hoy?
Nevertheless, the slightest prospect of obtaining a supply of fresh meat was enough to reconcile us to any amount of exertion; therefore, on the strength of the pinch of feathers which Fitz kept gravely assuring us was the game he had bagged, we seized our guns I took a rifle in case of a possible bear and set our faces toward the hill.
But really I don't blame him for thinking he'd sunk us; you see, there were six of 'em potting away at us at one time couldn't see us for spray " "And how did you feel just then?" I enquired. "Oh, rotten! You see I'd jammed my finger in some tackle for one thing, and just then the light failed us. We'd have bagged the lot if the light had held a little longer. But next time who knows?
"What fun it would be to go out shooting, and get a thousand dollars for every man you bagged." "Aye, that would make a man hold straight, if anything would," said Macintosh. And there were a few spurts of talk like that, but mostly they plodded on in silence.
From Auberive, Praslay and Grancey, rendezvous were made in the woods of Charbonniere or Maigrefontaine; nothing was thought of but the exploits of certain marksmen, the number of pieces bagged, and the joyous outdoor breakfasts which preceded each occasion.
No one but Charles Batty would have said that in the presence of his mother; it was ridiculous, and she looked at him with revengeful criticism. He was plain; he was getting bald; his trousers bagged; his socks were wrinkled like concertinas; his comparative self-assurance was quite unjustified. He had looked at her consistently since he entered the room, and Henrietta was angrily aware that Mrs.
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