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Updated: June 9, 2025
I've got a biggish bill against those beggars on that sandbank yonder for the mischief they've done." But it was no place there to waste much time on sentiment.
"We lit a fire," she said, "and the Indian woman and the children stood in the light of it and brandished; and further on, where it was quite dark, we had got a biggish log or two and dragged them across the track, so when the train stopped the men came and found them there; and I went round to the back and got on the cars when all the men were off and they didn't come near me till morning.
I've a biggish outfit of Eskimo, and the usual truck of the summer trail, back there on the river that comes out of the east. We've got this territory cached with food dumps and things, and we're out, scattered miles over the country, beating it for pelts with trap and gun. Guess we figger to stop right out till it starts in to freeze up.
At one end of this long narrow room in La Reina a wooden partition, running right across from side to side, made a biggish chamber called "the cabin," where the officers took their meals. A little further along the room, one on each side of it, were two tiny partitioned cabins, about seven feet square, in which the officers slept, two in each cabin one above the other, in shelf-beds, or bunks.
There we two bent our dark heads over a half-unrolled chart lying on my bed. "There," I said. "It's got to be Koh-ring. I've been looking at it ever since sunrise. It has got two hills and a low point. It must be inhabited. And on the coast opposite there is what looks like the mouth of a biggish river with some town, no doubt, not far up. It's the best chance for you that I can see." "Anything.
It was a biggish house, and all quiet, as you may suppose, at that hour. I rang the bell, and at last down came a servant a man, he was. "'I've got the master here, I said. "'Got who? he asked. "'Why Mr. Hoffman your master. He's in the cab, not quite himself. This is number forty-seven, ain't it?
"The leading ship under French colours appears to me to carry sixty-four guns," observed the first lieutenant to the captain; "and the next, also a Frenchmen, looks like a thirty-six gun frigate. The brig is American, and so is one of the sloops. The sternmost is French, and is a biggish ship." "Whatever they are, we'll fight them, and, I hope, take one or two at least," answered the captain.
They understood from this that he really wished to do them good; and in the course of a week or two there were very few who did not try to attend to what he said. Some few did much more than that, they repented they turned to Christ they put their whole trust in Him. Happy was it for those few who did so. Dick was now becoming a biggish boy, and he hoped soon to be made a putter.
"I've located things," he said, with an air of deep satisfaction. "Guess we'll make Mr. 'Lord' James hunt his hole 'fore we're thro' with him. I figger a rawhide fixed neat about his neck'll 'bout meet his case. An' say, I've news fer you. Ther's some o' his boys around. He's jest right in ther' wher' you ken see that biggish light," he went on, pointing at the illuminated square of a window.
A biggish boy was adopting the novel expedient for getting on a tight boot of turning his back to the wall and kicking out at it like a horse when I and my conductress entered. The latter very nearly came in for one of the kicks. "Flanagan," said she, "that is not allowed. I shall give you a bad mark for it."
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