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"Why, you c'n even hear the crackle of the flames, whenever the night wind happens to blow this way," Babe Adams asserted; and they all agreed with him, for the same sound had come to their ears also. "We might help the poor old farmer, if we only happened to be closer," Eben said, in the goodness of his heart. "And if we didn't feel so bunged-up tired," added Andy.
That Evening he was back at his own Fireside, with the Bunged-Up Feet resting in Carpet Slippers. As he sat and read the Poultry Magazine, Aunt Mehely looked at him sidewise, and full of Suspicion said, "I s'pose you just Played Hob there in the City." And Uncle Brewster replied as follows: "No, Mother, I didn't Drink and I didn't Gamble. I didn't do Nothin' not even go to a Theayter."
Gilbert took an armful of shirts from the chest of drawers and dropped them into the trunk. "Once, when I was wandering in Walworth," he said, "I heard a costermonger threatening to give another costermonger a thick ear, a bunged-up eye and a mouth full of blood. That's what you'll get if you don't hop round. What suits do you want!" Henry did not answer.
I've done forty miles at a stretch plenty of times." "So've I, but not with a bad ankle and a bunged-up side," returned Bud dryly. "How yuh feelin'?" "Fine! I've hardly had a twinge all day. That bandage stuff is great dope for keeping a fellow strapped up comfortable." "Well, if you're up to it, I reckon that would be better than the train," Bud admitted.
Well, in any event, he had made the trip, he had beaten the ship, delivered the message to Garcia. "I got to go down and turn my grease cup before I forget it," he said, as they came out on the little stone portico again. Several soldiers who were soon to see more harrowing sights than a bunged-up motorcycle, were gathered about Uncle Sam, gaping at him and commenting upon his disfigurements.
Moreno was edging about uneasily and beginning to mutter blasphemy at his bonds. "That fellow begged very hard to be moved down into that wolf-hole of a place where the Mexican women are, lieutenant, with those two bunged-up bandits to take care of. Nice time we'd have, sir, if the three of them was able to move. The boys'd make short work of them now, the way they're feeling.
Finally, one or two small spars and sails were added to the general pile of heterogeneous articles that had been heaped up in the centre of the raft, whose buoyancy had been much increased, since it was first made and launched overboard, by the accidental discovery in the steerage of some empty puncheons, which were carefully bunged-up so that no water could get into them and lashed underneath the floating platform; the catalogue of stores being then completed by heaving on the heap all the cordage that could be got at and cut away, in addition to some blocks and a few odds and ends the tarpaulin from off the broken cabin skylight, which was certain to be of the greatest use, being, like other equally serviceable articles, only thought of at the last moment.
I lunch in the great dining-room, with tall full-length Tempests eying me with constant placidity from the walls; with the butler and footman still trying respectfully to ignore my swelled nose and bunged-up eyes. As evening draws on evening that is to bring some voices, some sound of steps to me and my great dumb house I revive a little.
Several years ago Bill McCracken lived in Peru, Indiana. McCracken was a screamer, and had whipped all the recognized fighting men on the Wabash. The McCracken at once laid in a stock of provisions, consisting of whisky in glass and chickens in the shell, and started for Logansport. In a few days, he was brought home in a bunged-up condition, on a cot-bed.
But Hector is at last slain and borne away, and a ludicrous lay figure is laid out to represent him, with bunged-up eyes and a general flabbiness of body and want of features, charming to behold. On their necks the Trojans bear him to their walls, and with a sudden jerk pitch him over them head first, and he tumbles, in a heap, into the city. Then Ulysses harangues the Greeks.
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