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Lem bent over her, his eyes blazing with wrath. "Ye want to git yer batty head a workin' damn quick," he shouted, "or I'll slit yer throat with this!" The rusty hook was thrust near the thin, drawn face. "I can't think tonight," muttered Screech Owl, "'cause the bats be a runnin' 'bout in my head. When I think, I'll tell ye, Lemmy." "Where be that boy?" demanded Lem. Scraggy shook her head.

"We're only takin' five minutes' practice.... Say, but there's a crowd! Are you all right, Peg cool-like and determined?... Good! Say but Peg, you'd better look these fellows over." "I remember them all," replied Ken. "That's Gallagher on the end of the bench; Burr is third from him; Stern's fussing over the bats, and there's Hill, the light-headed fellow, looking this way. There's "

"Let us set the thing on its edge! so, push away, a little more. There, I have propped up the wretched thing and there it may lie. If the bats pay me a visit to-night I will think of you and give them your best wishes." "You may save yourself that trouble," replied the young man with cool dignity.

That's why I can't go through another such ordeal without company; yet I wouldn't miss this eleventh-century castle for a bag of your English sovereigns." "If only it had been left alone, and not restored!" I groaned. "In that case we should meet no one but bats." "We? Then you will go with me?" "I suppose so," I sighed. "It can't add more than a dozen grey hairs, and what are they among so many?"

He roused enough to answer the question: "Dore Gustave Dore an artist? Why, the name sounds familiar! Oh, yes, an illustrator. Ah, now I understand; but there is a difference between an artist and an illustrator, you know, my boy. Dore yes, I knew him he had bats in his belfry!" And Mr.

Now over all reigns a decorous silence, such as we moderns deem fitting for a cemetery; only the hum of insects breaks the deep quiet of the atmosphere, nor are there any living creatures visible at this late hour save the bats which flit restlessly in and out of the weed-grown piles of brick or stone that once were stately monuments of wealth or piety.

Then, too, there were hideous dog-fish, with round heads, widely-gaping mouths like those of Chinese idols, and short fins like bats' wings; fit monsters to keep yelping guard over the treasures of the ocean grottoes.

Your heart is in t'other old church among the bats and foxes, where Aunt Vesty sits this minute." "No, my sorrow is there, Rhoda. I am trying to build a nest for my heart. We all must love." "William, I don't think a young man in love can remember so much history when he's sittin' in the dark by his gal." "Love among the ruins is always melancholy, Rhoda."

"Bless my speedometer!" cried Mr. Damon, "If those beasts or birds whatever they are come back I'll go and hide in the river and take my chances with the alligators!" "The alligators aren't much worse," asserted Jacinto with a visible shiver. "These vampire bats sometimes depopulate a whole village." "Bless my shoe laces!" cried Mr. Damon.

Mayblossom was just about to follow their example when a terrific croaking, as of an immense army of crows, rooks, ravens, screech-owls, and all birds of ill-omen was heard, and at the same instant a huge owl skimmed up to the Princess, and threw over her a scarf woven of spiders' webs and embroidered with bats' wings.

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