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He's got poor Miss Ross his secretary, you know so she just listens to what he says must be done and she writes it out. Sometimes he goes days without speaking to her directly. But really it's pretty bad! It's like a war with no enemy to fight except spies! And the things they do! They've been known even to booby-trap a truck after an accident, so anybody who tries to help will be blown up!
One of them, a fool of a fellow, blunders into a booby-trap and loses the army which is almost the sole hope of Rome; and comes home, utterly defeated, to be gravely thanked by the Senate for not committing suicide after his defeat: "for not despairing of the Republic." Ah, there is real Great Stuff in that; they are admirable peasant bandits after all!
"A booby-trap, I suppose," interposed Jack, looking thoughtful. "Well, sir, a trap that's certain, for I walked in through the door as innocent as a child; but I don't see on that account that I'm to be set down for a booby." "No, no; it's only the name for the trick," Jack hastened to explain, for Hannah was looking more hurt than ever.
"I expect it's got there by now," he said at dinner-time; "it's a first class booby-trap; what a sell for him! He'll read the list and then he'll take out one parcel after another till he comes to the cake. It was a ripping idea! I'm glad I thought of it!" "I'm not," said Noël suddenly. "I wish you hadn't I wish we hadn't. I know just exactly what he feels like now.
Just then James, who had been in the family for the last five or six years, came staggering into the room. He had been caught by a booby-trap which Irene had placed just over his pantry door, and a shower of spiders and caterpillars and other offensive insects had fallen all over him. His face was deadly pale, and he declared that he had been severely stung.
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