Vietnam or Thailand ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Updated: May 15, 2025
Then, indicating with a wave of his hand the troops present, which must have numbered some eight hundred at least, he said with a smile: "Senor, do you need any further argument than these to convince you of the desirability of surrendering at discretion?" "A buena querra?" demanded Bascomb, who had picked up a phrase or two of Spanish during his conversations with Marshall.
At this moment an officer wearing a full suit of plate armour, and mounted on horseback, advanced, and, lifting the visor of his helmet, demanded, in fairly good English: "Where is the officer in command of this force?" "Here," answered Bascomb, pushing his way to the front. The Spaniard bowed.
If you can get him to agree to make it a go-as-you-please till the best man whips you will suit me." "All right; I'll stand for that." Away went Hodge to consult with Reynolds, and Frank did not dream that he had proposed just the kind of a fight that Bascomb and his second most desired.
When, upon the boat being brought to the lee gangway, Dick led the way up the side, he was met at the entrance port by Bascomb, Winter, Dyer, and Harvey, each of whom at the same instant fired at him the question: "Where is the Captain?" "Lost taken, I fear," answered Dick.
In his heart, however, Bascomb did not feel at all sure that Rains would prove the victor in the jumping contest. "Merriwell is the hardest fellow to beat that I ever saw," he told himself. "It doesn't seem possible to down him, and keep him down. If one seems to get the best of him for a bit, he bobs up serenely directly, and comes out on top. It is just his luck!"
As a result, within less than a full minute, Tom had removed two full quart bottles and six smaller ones from the fellow's various pockets. All of these the young chief engineer threw on the ground, smashing them. From the crowd gathered about, which numbered more than sixty men of three different races, a howl went up. President Bascomb began to shiver.
And when the sermon is finished, to hear all this heated mass break forth into song, the wild melody of which floats, in the stillness of night, upon the breeze to the listening ear a mile away, in cadences mournfully sweet, make the camp-meeting among the most exciting of human exhibitions. In such a school were trained those great masters of pulpit oratory, Pierce, Wynans, Capers, and Bascomb.
Mr Bascomb, put up your helm, and hoist away your topsails again. And now, gentles both, who be ye; and how came ye to be in so awkward a scrape as that from which we have just rescued ye?"
Bascomb stood quite still, and saw his late supporters, with the exception of Reynolds, draw away and leave him, as if he were some creature to be avoided. "Oh, that's the way!" he grated, bitterly. "They're afraid they will be mixed in it some way, and so they sneak! I am left to face the music alone!" "Brace up, old man," urged Reynolds. "You may not be in such a very bad box.
The horrors of the night he had spent alone in the woods overcame Bascomb so that he was quite prostrated, having to remain in hospital several days, and barely escaping a fever. But he was very happy to know that Frank still lived, and this happiness led to his quick recovery.
Word Of The Day
Others Looking