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"It's the worst horn I ever ran across," he groaned, without looking up, as I came in. "The blankety-blank thing won't blow." He punched it savagely, finally eliciting a faint throaty croak. "Sounds like croup," I suggested. "My sister-in-law uses camphor and goose greese for it; or how about a spice poultice?" But McKnight never sees any jokes but his own.
Instead of sobering him, as Post supposed it would, the information made him even more angry only now his anger was transferred from himself to Griswold. "The blankety-blank bounder!" yelled Cochran. "That was what he wanted! That's why he came here!" "Here!" demanded Post. "Not an hour ago," cried Cochran. "He asked me about Bar Harbor. He saw those pictures were taken at Bar Harbor!"
I did not. "Well," he proceeded, "over in Scotland when a feller sees a sheepman coming down the road with his sheep, he says: 'Behold the gentle shepherd with his fleecy flock! That's poetry. Now in Montana, that same feller says, when he sees the same feller coming over a ridge with the same sheep: 'Look at that crazy blankety-blank with his woolies! That's fact.
"I want to know if you're going to lick me, Dad?" "What did I promise you, last night?" he demanded. "Do you mean to keep that promise?" asked Judith. "Go out and tend to your milking!" roared John, rising to his feet and throwing the book across the room. "Get out of my sight, you little fool, you blankety-blank " But Judith had fled and Douglas retired to the kitchen.
"'Then, you blankety-blank, flop-eared, sheep-headed coyote, what did you say you took it, for? "'Because, said Bob, simply, 'I didn't know you were asleep. "I saw him glance toward the door of the room where Jack and Zilla were, and I knew then what it meant to be a man's friend from Bob's point of view." Major Tom paused, and again directed his glance out of the window.
"Blankety-blank-blank BLANK!" he announced in due time, "Blankety-blank-blank-blank BLANK! Maybe when you two blankety-blank imbeciles have got through your blankety-blank cackling you'll have the blankety-blank decency to save my my blankety-blank-blank blank blank-blank life!" "Ha! Ha! Ha!" persisted the poor helpless White Linen Nurse with the tears streaming down her cheeks. "Hi! Hi!
You want to duck your head and get down out of it, and Lord it tires you so aviation isn't all "brilliant risks" and "daring dives" and that kind of blankety-blank circus business, not by a long shot it ain't, lots of it is just sticking there and bucking the wind like a taxi driver speeding for a train in a storm. Tired to-night and mad. September 5: New York! I win!
He was as pleasant as most fleshy people are when they have to get up at night, and he said the telephone had been ringing for an hour, and he didn't know why somebody else in the blankety-blank house couldn't have heard it. He wouldn't get to sleep until noon. As he was palpably asleep on his feet, I left him grumbling and went to the telephone.
"Then we'll kick the blankety-blank spaceport apart," somebody shouted. That started it up again. Oscar wondered if getting silence was worth another clip of cartridges, and decided it wasn't. He managed to make himself heard without it. "We'll do nothing of the kind. We need that spaceport to stay alive. But we will take Ravick and Belsher and Hallstock "
The region between Beerjand and the Harood is on my map a dismal-looking, blankety-blank stretch of country, marked with the ominous title "Dasht-i" which, being interpreted into English, means Desert of Despair.
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