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Updated: May 2, 2025
I could ha' swallowed bucketsful more if I'd had it." "Lor'! what a fuss you two chaps make," said Barney. "I knowed that's how it would be. There, shut your eyes, both on you, and see yer father do it." "You're not going, Barney?" I whispered. "Oh yes, I am, sir. I can do it." "Yes, sir, let him go," said Bob.
This time the Lieutenant and Sergeant Jack had not been able to come, but we arranged the races and jumps on the sand for all that, and went into them with a will and A rain-drop fell. Nor was it long lonesome. Before we had finished the hundred-yard dash we were in the midst of it was undeniably raining. Half a moment later "bucketsful" would have been a weak simile.
But out of the water he dared not put his head; for the rain came down by bucketsful, and the hail hammered like shot on the stream, and churned it into foam; and soon the stream rose, and rushed down, higher and higher, and fouler and fouler, full of beetles, and sticks; and straws, and worms, and addle-eggs, and wood-lice, and leeches, and odds and ends, and omnium-gatherums, and this, that, and the other, enough to fill nine museums.
She took him to the dam; when she got there she took out the buckets, left one on the bank, and gave the other to Christie. She then went down the steps till the water was up to her neck, and bade Christie fill the tub. He poured eight bucketsful in. Then she came slowly out, straight as an arrow, balancing this tub full on her head. Then she held out her hands for the two buckets.
The weather, too, was very uncertain. Day after day down came torrents of rain not merely English spring showers but, as Adair observed, regular bucketsful, which compelled them to open the ports to let the water run off the decks, for fear of swamping the vessel. No people could behave better than did their little crew. Murray allowed no one to be idle.
For he lost his temper and called me hard names one night, when I stopped short in the middle of the road and wouldn't budge an inch for voice or whip, with the wind blowing a gale, and the rain coming down in bucketsful. But when a flash of lightning showed the bridge before us clean washed away, and only a few feet between us and the steep bank of the river, Master Fred changed his tune.
Lots of breath is wasted on the Western Front giving silly cautions. As soon as it was dark. Wheeler and I crawled to our post which was about half-way between the lines. It was raining bucketsful, the ground was a sea of sticky mud and clung to us like glue. We took turns in listening with our ears to the ground.
'I'm coming, my good girl, I'm coming, the crazy pilgrim responded obediently, and, bending his whole body forward, he got up from the seat. 'Here's only this chain to fasten.... I once more approached Sophia, and told her my name. I began beseeching her to listen to me, to say one word to me. I pointed to the rain, which was coming down in bucketsful.
The captain hailed them, and gave the welcome news that the pirate was off, and that they might venture on deck. As soon as they heard his voice they sprang up, but looks of horror were on their countenance. "It's all over with us, sir," said they. "The villains have bored holes in the ship's bottom, and the water is rushing in by bucketsful." I accompanied the captain below.
Still the flames raged and the water did not reach them; at all events, it failed to extinguish them. Of course no one dared venture below. The smoke and fire forbade it any attempt to go down would have been a rash sacrifice of life, and no one thought of making it. For nearly ten minutes the men continued to draw water, and dash it in bucketsful down the hatchway; but all to no purpose.
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