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"What then made you let him do it?" asked little freckled-face Will Horton, from where he lay on the ground. "Didn't I tell you he catched me foul?" demanded Tom, glaring at the urchin; "if I'd knowed what was coming things would have been different." "Dick and Fred knowed he was coming for them," added Will, "for he walked clear across the schoolroom."
We not only catched enough for our present refreshment, but we dried several large fishes, of kinds which I cannot describe, in the sun, by which we lengthened out our provision considerably; for the heat of the sun dried them so effectually without salt that they were perfectly cured, dry, and hard, in one day's time.
But had they catched him, they would for certain have hanged him; and we promise you, hanging is but a bad business. Then said the old gentleman, 'I would that all the ten thousand doubters were now well armed in Mansoul, and myself at the head of them; I would see what I could do. 'Ay, said they, 'that would be well if we could see that; but wishes, alas! what are they? and these words were spoken aloud.
See Boswell's Hebrides under Nov. 11, 1773. See post, under April 29, 1776. In like manner he writes, 'I catched for the moment an enthusiasm with respect to visiting the Wall of China. post April 10, 1778. Johnson had had some desire to go upon Cook's expedition in 1772. ante, March 21, 1772. Mme. See ante, ii. 50.
We just set there and watched him rip and tear around till he drownded. We found a brass button in his stomach and a round ball, and lots of rubbage. We split the ball open with the hatchet, and there was a spool in it. Jim said he'd had it there a long time, to coat it over so and make a ball of it. It was as big a fish as was ever catched in the Mississippi, I reckon.
"For twa gude reasons," answered the beggar, who quietly kept his sitting posture; "first, because, as I said before, we have naething to dig wi', for they hae taen awa the picks and shules; and, secondly, because there will be a wheen idle gowks coming to glower at the hole as lang as it is daylight, and maybe the laird may send somebody to fill it up and ony way we wad be catched.
Among the rest we went to see, and the case was plain and short enough. Two English gentlemen and a Scotchman, travellers as we were, were standing gazing at this prating doctor, and one of them catched a fellow picking his pocket. The fellow had got some of his money, for he dropped two or three pieces just by him, and had got hold of his watch, but being surprised let it slip again.
The wind as the saying is had "catched in," and was blowing briskly from the north-west, chasing diaphanous clouds across the blue zenith. The roofs still shone wet and dazzling, and there were puddles in the street. But he knew the afternoon was going to be a fine one.
Every minute it was getting earlier now, and pretty soon some of them watchers would begin to stir, and I might get catched catched with six thousand dollars in my hands that nobody hadn't hired me to take care of. I don't wish to be mixed up in no such business as that, I says to myself. When I got down stairs in the morning the parlor was shut up, and the watchers was gone.
He placed it in the binnacle and closed the glass lid. "'Twas catched in a bluefish line," he explained. "All snarled up, 'twas." Sam peered through the glass at the compass. "Thunder!" he exclaimed. "I should say we had spun around. Instead of north being off here where I thought it was, it's 'way out to the right. Queer how fog'll mix a fellow up. Trumet's about northeast, isn't it?"
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