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"All right, Miss Lucy, only I do hope you won't have to foot it back in this heat." "I shan't mind." "It's going to be a terrible day," insisted the lad. "Them buzzin' locusts is enough to prove that. They're good as a thermometer." Lucy laughed. "Don't worry about me," she remarked kindly. "Just as soon as I finish my errands I shall start home." "You'd be wise to."
"If I stand here till you'd be bringin' me my orders, I'll have the whole kit av thim buzzin' round to know fwhat's the matther," said Callahan; but there was no other thing to do, and Durgan hurried back to the telegraph office to play the messenger. He was too long about it.
Why, you jest spozen a hundred swarms of bees big as giants, with buzzes big accordin', all a swarmin' and a buzzin', and you'll git a little idee of the noise and tumult of Coney Island. But you won't spozen' fur enough, I don't believe. Yes, I laid out to spend considerable time in Dreamland next day.
It's wishin' I am that I had you in ould Ireland," growled Corporal Flynn, referring to Osman Digna, whose men had opened fire on the neighbouring fort, and again roused the whole garrison. "Slape is out o' the question wi' such a muskitos buzzin' about. Bad luck to 'ee!"
"Ther Thorntons an' Harpers them thet dwells furthest back in ther sticks air a doin' a heap of buzzin' an' talkin'. They're right sim'lar ter bees gittin' ready ter swarm. I've done seed ter that. I reckon when this hyar stranger starts in ter rob ther honey outen thet hive he's goin' ter find a tol'able nasty lot of stingers on his hands."
Somehow she couldn't seem to tear them three August days completely off the calendar; and when the other chappies come buzzin' around, and she had a chance to frame 'em up alongside of this fish island hero, there wa'n't but one answer. It was Hermes for hers, every day in the week!
"All this time the Colonel and the Major were buzzin' each other off by the other rail. Pretty soon they both come over to where I stood, and the Colonel reached out his hand. "'Cap'n Brandt, he says and he had a look in his face as if he meant it and he did, every word of it 'it would give Major Severn and myself great pleasure if you would dine with us to-night at the Canteen.
"'Wa'al, I says, 'did he come in? "'No, says Purse, 'he didn't. I never set eyes on him agin, an' more'n that, he says, 'he took the first train in the mornin', an' now, he says, 'I expect I'll have ev'ry last man I owe anythin' to buzzin' 'round my ears.
An' up overhead a huge cigar-shaped balloon, an' then an airplane sailin' swift an' buzzin' like a bee. Them was the first air-ships I ever seen. No wonder Jim wanted to " Anderson's voice broke a little at this juncture and he paused. All was still except the murmur of the running water and the song of the insects.
"Out, man, out," I cried at him; "there's nae time for sorrow," and there came the clop-clop of a galloping horse on the frozen road, and Ronny McKinnon flung himself among us. "The back door, damnation, the back door," he cried, and pushed Dan before him. "Will ye wait till that wasp's bink is buzzin' aboot yer lugs?"
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