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Updated: June 18, 2025
You're the only friend we've got in the world." "On what charge did they arrest him, Mrs. Hogan?" "Just a lot o' policemen charged on him with billies!" "But why did they do it?" "It's the policeman on the beat who's got a grudge agin him. He swore he'd land him in Sing Sing. And if you can't stop him, he'll do it." Gordon wrote a note to a lawyer and handed it to her.
Don't reckon yourselves wiser than Natur', my billies. . . . As for steam trawlin', simmee, I han't heard so much open grievin' over it since Government started loans for motors. Come to think hey? there ben't no such tearin' difference between motors an' steam not on principle.
All preliminaries were arranged during the afternoon: in the evening, just before night fell, Dick and Peterson, hidden with their trusty steeds amongst the saplings about three hundred yards beyond the toll-bar, awaited the coming of their companions in crime. They had not long to wait; in a few minutes Jacker Mack, Ted, and Phil Doon came riding up the dusty track on their brave billies.
'Good enough! said Dick. 'Then I'm in. When do we start? 'To-morrer night. We want one more. Twitter will come. That'll be five. Five is a fine gang; sides, we don't want fellers what ain't got billies. Bushrangers ain't no account on foot. My men must be all mounted.
"I see, I see; but what was the monuments of their ancestors?" "Ou, that was the gravestanes they put up i' their kirkyards." "I wonder the other billies would want to tak them awa. They would be a michty wecht." "Ay, but they wanted them, an' nat'rally the Greeks stuck to the stanes they paid for." "So, so, an' did Davit Lunan mak oot 'at there was humour in that?" "He do so.
Besides, I behooved to be round the hirsel this morning and see how the herds were coming on; they're apt to be negligent wi' their footballs, and fairs, and trysts, when ane's away. And there I met wi' Tarn o' Todshaw, and a wheen o' the rest o' the billies on the water side; they're a' for a fox-hunt this morning, ye'll gang? I 'll gie ye Dumple, and take the brood mare mysell.
Soups in billies, turkeys in milk-pans, salads in gourd-rinds, custards in cow-bells, jellies in sardine-boxes, plum-pudding in a kerosene case, vegetables, fruits, and cakes in kits of plaited flax; anything and everything was utilized that possibly could be.
"Now," said I to myself, "we shall catch it hot on the savagery of the South and the barbarous Method of keeping it down"; but before he had said three words the colonel looked as though he were going to get up and slap the little dignitary on the back which would have created a sensation indeed. "Have you an extra one of those those " "Billies?" I said, wonderingly. "Yes.
Poor man! He only lasted about a year!" And Mrs. Tanberry laughed heartily. "They've been at me time and again to take another." She lowered her voice and leaned toward Betty confidentially. But I love 'em, I do, the Charming Billies! And you'll see how they follow me!" She patted the girl's shoulder, her small eyes beaming quizzically. "We'll have the gayest house in Rouen, ladybird!
Four hands of each of the creatures held heavy leather billies, and could be used only in striking with those weapons, the remaining hands being left free to employ as the owner saw fit. Since the sport was not intended to be lethal, however, the eyes and other highly vulnerable parts were protected by metal masks, and the wing ribs were similarly guarded by leathern shields.
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