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The boys cut some poles from the trees, and baiting the hooks with some fat worms found under the bark, threw in. "Let's see who'll get the first bite," spoke Jack. "I'm pretty generally lucky at fishing." "Well, while you're waiting to decide that there contest, I think I'll take a stroll along shore and see if I can see anything to shoot," Andy remarked.
As Baiting Joe, as usual, had acted as ferryman, it was necessary to get rid of him, the young sailor desiring to be alone with Mary. This was easily enough effected, by a present of a quarter of a dollar. The boat having two lugg sails, and the wind being light and steady, at south-west, there was nothing to conflict with Roswell Gardiner's wishes.
Fancy coffins, decorated with glittering ornaments, are placed seductively in bright plate-glass windows, and put out for baiting advertisements upon the side-walks: as much as to say, "Walk in, walk in, ladies and gentlemen!
In all probability the Welsh Gypsies were sacrificed to British prejudice, much as were pugilism and the baiting of the pope. In spite of its simple charm and convincing atmosphere, Wild Wales did not please the critics. The Spectator notice was an exception; it did credit to the critical faculty of the man who wrote it.
"You're not a product of my imagination!" "Hardly." "Are you giving me that line about 'All is Illusion'?" "No," the boy laughed spontaneously. "Are you a mutant, a new evolutionary development?" "No, nor am I a machine or a monster." "At least you're alive!" "That, I think, is a matter of definition." "Then, for the third time, what are you! Stop baiting me!"
It was with this end in view that he went up and down the city, talking with those that were young and inflammable, and baiting his plans with many big words and sounding phrases that were as stimulating to the ear as the clanging of the bells on the war-wagon, so that those who heard them, flushed and troubled by their music, were at little pains to inquire as to the wisdom that lay behind them.
Seated on an upturned tub, he was busily engaged in baiting a hook. Tired of the "Irish horse" and salt pork that formed the staple of the sailors' food, he was taking advantage of the calm to fish for bonitos, a large fish over two feet long, the deadly enemy of the beautiful flying fish that every now and then fell panting upon the deck in their mad flight from marine foes.
They have always been missing, in point of fact." Loring was glancing over the letter. "How about this affidavit business, and the Falkland stop-over?" he asked. "Oh, I fancy that's gossip, pure and simple, as Hunnicott says. Hawk is sharp enough not to let us know if he were baiting a trap. And Falkland probably told the Clarion man the simple truth." Loring nodded in his turn.
It is suggestive to seat one's self upon these solid granite seats, where twenty-five hundred years ago some grave Etrurian citizen, wrapped in his mantle of Tyrrhenian purple, his straight-nosed wife at his side, with serpent bracelet and enamelled brooch, and a hopeful family clustering playfully at their knees, looked placidly on, while slaves were baiting and butchering each other in the arena below.
The baiting accomplished, with a great flourish you throw your sinker, and see it bury itself in the muddy water; then you listen intently, for the least suggestion of a disturbance down there at the other end of the line; the sinker thumps upon this rock and the next one, drops into a hole and gets caught for a moment, but is loosened again, and then a sort of galvanic shock thrills through your body; on guard! if you would save your bait; another twinge, fainter than the first, and at last a regular tug, and you haul in your line, which is jerking incessantly by this time.
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