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If it hadn't been this one it'd have been the next one we passed anchored along the coast." "Who are you?" demanded Ardita suddenly. "And what are you?" "You've decided not to go ashore?" "I never even faintly considered it." "We're generally known," he said "all seven of us, as Curtis Carlyle and his Six Black Buddies late of the Winter Garden and the Midnight Frolic." "You're singers?"
How's she making out? Full of fight and hope to the last, I'll bet." "They had me under herd; but she was wishing for the Bar Cross buddies to butt in, I believe. Reckon your sheriff-man guessed it. He had her under guard, too." "Nice man, the sheriff! How'd you get away from your herder?" "He don't just remember," said Pringle. "Who was it?" "Applegate. Dreadful absent-minded, Applegate is. Ouch!
As each of the "Buddies" landed, he sensed the situation, and prepared for an attack from any angle. Some of them fired at German soldiers whom they saw reaching for their guns. All threw up their hands, with the cry "Kamerad!" when the Americans opened fire. About their prisoners the Americans formed in a semicircle as they forced them to disarm.
Hal wrote a free and rapid hand, with a generous flourish; he felt sure it would be different from Alec Stone's idea of a working-boy's scrawl. His pencil flew on and on "Joe Smith Joe Smith " page after page, until he was sure that he had written a signature for every miner in the camp, and was beginning on the buddies. Then, hearing a whistle outside, he stopped and sprang to the window.
Only this morning she keeps on at me wi' her questions like the clapper o' a bell. 'Is she a servant? If she's no, why does she wear servants' claes? Why does she have hair like a boy? Has she had a fever or something wrong wi' her heid? Is she one of they suffragette buddies and been in prison? till I was fair deeved and bade the lassie hold her tongue.
But 'no, sis John Bull, the knowledge of our own buddies, and how to save our own Bakin Beef I mean day by day, from disease and chartered ass-ass-ins, all that may interest the thinkers in Saturn, but what the deevil is it t' us?
"It was all very well for John and Charlie Martin to be buddies, as they call it, during the war," she went on. "It was different over there in France. But now that it is all over and they are home again, and Captain Martin has gone back to his old work in the Mill where John has practically become the manager, there is no sense in brother's keeping up the intimacy.
"Gee, I've had buddies has met up with that friendly kind. I know a guy married one, an' found out after two weeks." "It's silly to talk about it. I can't explain it.... It gives you confidence in anything to feel there's someone who'll always understand anything you do." "I s'pose you're goin' to git married." "I don't see why. That would spoil everything." Eddy whistled softly.
Astro stood still. The man came up to him and felt the cadet's uniform for a hidden weapon. Then he jammed the ray gun into Astro's back and ordered him down the hill. Astro started walking, hardly daring to breathe, but suddenly the man stopped. "Where are the others?" he demanded. "They ran out on me." "Ran out on you. I thought you three were supposed to be such good buddies?"
"Poor devil!" said Jeter. "But his buddies can see his plane and know that it marks the spot where they could conveniently drop their bombs." Eyer was on the point of nodding when Sitsumi shouted. "Quickly, Wang Li! Spin the outer shell before the enemy uses the wrecked plane as an aiming point!" A whirring sound. The plane whirled around as though it were twirled on the end of a string.
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