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I have been down the river three or four times already with some other freshmen, and it is glorious exercise, that I can see, though we bungle and cut crabs desperately at present." Within a day or two of the penning of this epistle, Tom realised one of the objects of his young Oxford ambition, and succeeded in embarking in a skiff by himself.
I am always horribly frightened at singing before my mother; I cannot bear to distress her accurate ear with my unsteady intonation, and the more I think of it, the colder my hands grow and the hotter my face, the huskier my voice and the flatter my notes; I bungle over accompaniments that I have at my fingers' ends, and forget words I know as well as my alphabet; in short, I feel like a wretch, and I sing like a wretch, and I make wretched all my hearers.
While he was speaking there suddenly arose, outside, a jingling of bells, and a clashing of cymbals; and looking through the window father and daughter beheld a numerous band of painted Indians advancing, brandishing tomahawks, and singing war songs. "I hope these savages will not make a bungle of things," the Colonel said; "I wonder who has started them upon the war-path?"
I said, consulting my watch. "Thirty-three minutes! I give you my word that fight was comparable to ones I've had with a Pacific swordfish." "Look at him!" R. C. burst out. "Look at him! When the leader broke I thought he was lost. I'm sick yet. Didn't you almost bungle that?" "Not a chance, R. C.," I replied. "Had that all figured. I never put any strain on your line until the wave went back.
Then I found myself panting as hard as the priest and clinging to his arm for support; for illness had taken all the bravery out of my muscles, like champagne uncorked and left in the heat. "Brace yourself, lad," said the priest. "The Lord is with us, but don't you bungle."
"Am I in fault because my servants bungle?" asked Michael scornfully. "Your Highness has run no risk of bungling!" sneered Rupert. It was telling the duke that he shirked danger as plain as ever I have heard a man told. Black Michael had self-control.
Then he went to the table and said: "I wonder if this is my breakfast?" "Eat it!" commanded a Voice at his side, so near that Ojo jumped. But no person could he see. He was hungry, and the breakfast looked good; so he sat down and ate all he wanted. Then, rising, he took his hat and wakened the Glass Cat. "Come on, Bungle," said he; "we must go."
Ozma'll be mad as hops when she hears he's been doing magic again. She told him not to." "He only practices magic for the benefit of his own family," explained Bungle, who was keeping at a respectful distance from the little black dog. "Dear me," said Dorothy; "I hadn't noticed you before. Are you glass, or what?"
Five days' march from here to Petra and how many deserts and tribes between?" "So much the easier to keep the loot when we have won it!" answered Ali Baba. "There's going to be no loot!" said Grim. "Allah!" "Would you rather have me send back to Jerusalem for regular police?" "Nay, Jimgrim! That would be the end of you, for those police would bungle everything.
Jean and Gil Huntley found them comfortably disposed in the shade, out of range of the camera which Pete was setting up somewhat closer than usual, under the direction of Burns. "There won't be any rehearsal of this," Burns stated at last, stepping back. "When it's done, if you don't bungle the scene, it'll be done.
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