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Updated: June 18, 2025
An engine snorts to and fro, shunting coal waggons on to the siding coal for the traction engines, and to be consumed in threshing out the golden harvest around. Signalmen, with red and green lights, rush hither and thither, the bull's-eyes now concealed by the trucks, and now flashing out brightly like strange will-o'-the-wisps.
The forecastle in which they lived was large, tolerably well lighted by bull's-eyes, and, being kept perfectly clean, had quite a comfortable appearance; at least, it was far better than the little, black, dirty hole in which I had lived so many months on board the Pilgrim.
I have often thought that, instead of bull's-eyes, running deer, and that rubbish, the really superior marksman would be he who could boast that he had shot the cat. But, anyhow, they moved off; maybe the egg annoyed them. I had noticed when I picked it up that it did not look a good egg; and I went back to bed again, thinking the incident closed.
Miss Nugent sat dazed at his impudence, and for the first time in her life doubts as to her father's capacity stirred within her. She attempted the poor consolation of an "acid tablet," and it was at once impounded by the watchful Mrs. Kingdom. Mean-time the reek of "bull's-eyes" was insufferable.
As they flashed their electric bull's-eyes about the place, they could see readily that we had already been digging there. Wu examined the safe which had been broken into, while Long Sin repeated his experiences there. "And you say there was nothing else in it?" demanded Wu. "Nothing but the ring which they got from me," replied Long Sin, ruefully.
In striking contrast to China, here are gangs of "cantonniers" taking care of the road; men in regular blue uniforms with big white "bull's-eyes," and characters like our Celestial friends the yameni-runners. Troops of school-children are passed on the road going to school with books and tally-boards under their arm.
Gordon didn't expect to be too welcome there. There was no sign of the thug, but Fats came out of his back office just as Gordon reached the little bar. He came over, nodded, picked up a cup and dice and began shaking them. "High man for sixty," he said automatically, and expertly rolled bull's-eyes for a two. "Izzy said you'd be around.
"Yes," broke in The Seraph eagerly, "but she's comin' back some day to make a weally home for us!" "Shut up!" said Angel gruffly, poking him with his elbow. "The Seraph's very little," I explained apologetically, "he doesn't understand." The old gentleman put his hand in the pocket of his dressing-gown. "Bantling," he said with his droll smile, "do you like peppermint bull's-eyes?"
Stella produced a bag of "bull's-eyes," which, in striking contrast with the cow, had, in the course of the drive home, cohered so tightly together that it was doubtful if they would ever be separated again. "Fräulein never eats bull's-eyes," said Mary, who was what her parents called "a very truthful child."
It was but scantily lighted up, as yet, by the frosty fragments of a sunbeam, which began to glimmer through the almost opaque bull's-eyes of the window. A moralizer might find abundant themes for his speculative and impracticable wisdom in a garret. There is the limbo of departed fashions, aged trifles.
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