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Beale's, found the key under the loose tile behind the water-butt, and got the book without adventure. He had promised not to touch anything else, so he could not make even the gentlest booby-trap as a little surprise for Mrs. Beale when she got back.
Georgie guessed that Hermy was making a humourous allusion to Foljambe, who was the one person in Riseholme whom his two sisters seemed to hold in respect. Ursy had once set a booby-trap for Georgie, but the mixed biscuits and Brazil nuts had descended on Foljambe instead.
Oswald did not do things like these, but then he is older than his brothers. The only thing he did just about then was making a booby-trap for Mrs Pettigrew when she had locked H. O. up in the dairy, and unfortunately it was the day she was going out in her best things, and part of the trap was a can of water.
"Like a sort of live booby-trap," he explained; "just the sort of thing a magician or a witch would have thought of doing." But it was only dust and cobwebs a thick, damp mat of them. Then the others surged in, in light-hearted misunderstanding of the perils Oswald had led Denny into I mean through, with Mr.
Some of the younger officers and a few of the N.C.O.'s had made a long lorry trip to Abbeville to replace worn-out clothes. Major Bullivant and the adjutant had borrowed a car to search for almost forgotten mess luxuries; and coming back had given a lift to a curé, who in the dark put his foot in the egg-box, smashing twenty of the eggs. There had been the booby-trap in the blown-up dug-out.
Jerrold flung himself on her. "Tired? What must we be?" But he wasn't tired. His madness still worked in him. It sought some supreme expression. "What can we play at next?" said Anne. "What can we play at next?" said Colin. "Something quiet, for goodness sake," said his mother. They were very quiet, Jerrold and Anne and Colin, as they set the booby-trap for Pinkney.
"There were wasps there," he said, "and I have been stung in the cheek and on the hand; and, madam, I don't really know what to do." "It was a booby-trap. You look beautiful, James!" said Irene. James flashed her an angry glance. Poor Lady Jane started to the rescue. What was she to do with this intolerable child?
"When he's a servant and can't do anything to us." "I never thought of that," said Jerrold. "He'd do that in any case." "Still I'll have asked him." But it seemed that Pinkney was in no mood to think of cricket, and they had to be content with begging his pardon, which he gave, as he said, "freely." Yet it struck them that he looked sadder than a booby-trap should have made him.
In any case no sane man would try to destroy the Isis aground after an announcement that its bombs were armed, and that they were fused to explode. "Now repeat the demand for stores," ordered Bors. "We might as well stock up. Speed is essential. We can't use stores they've time to booby-trap or poison. Give them twenty minutes to start the stuff arriving. Demand fuel, extra rocket-fuel especially.
Set up an atom-bomb booby-trap, and I'll sit on it. If they try to contact me, you can either listen in or try to blow them up, and me with them!" There was buzzing comment. Perhaps Coburn's nails bit into his palms when this was suggested perhaps this was a proposal to let the Invaders examine an atomic bomb, American-style. It was said in earnest simplicity.
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