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"I seed his big mouth right clus to my face, an' his jaws wide open; so I rammed my left arm right in a 'tween 'em, so that he couldn't git no purchase onto me to chaw, and he hadn't really hed no chance ter bite, when the judge fired. He didn't do it a mite too soon, though, you bet. Ef it hadn't a bin for you boys well, boys hain't got no bizness on the plains, no how.
If they'd only fly clus enough t'the ground so the could alwuss touch one foot, they'd be all right. Glad ye ain't thet kind. We were off early on the boat as fine a summer morning as ever dawned. What with the grandeur of the scenery and the sublimity of our happiness it was a delightful journey we had that day.
'Drop right in there, he was saying, 'an' let her drag down, through the deep water, deliberate like. Git clus t' the bottom. Peering through a screen of bushes I could see an eager look on the unlovely face of Moses. He stood leaning toward the water and jiggling his hook along the bottom. Suddenly I saw Mose jerk and felt the cord move. I gave it a double twitch and began to pull.
With a feeling of real regret, Jack rent the veil of the spider and came out of his hiding-place. He brushed the silken threads from his hair and brow as he whispered: "That old spider saved me good luck to him!" "We'll keep clus together," Solomon whispered. "We got to push right on an' work 'round 'em. If any one gits in our way, he'll have to change worlds sudden, that's all.
"Wal, ye see, they wuz some leetle logs beyond me that made a kind o' a holler an' I jest put ol' Marier 'crost 'em an' wound the string o' my powder-horn on her bar'l. I lay thar a while an' purty soon I heard a feller comin' on the timber. He were clus up to me when he hit a log wrong an' it rolled him under.
"Ye could see the ha'r begin to brustle under his coat," Solomon was wont to say of Burley, in speaking of that moment. "He stepped up clus an' growled an' showed his teeth an' then he begun to git rooined." Burley had kept a public house for sailors at New Haven and had had the reputation of being a bad man in a quarrel.
But she had never been angry, and was now only too thankful that Jim and his friends had escaped safely. "Ah!" said Jim in telling his adventures, "we hed a clus run on 't, Sairy, but thee'd better believe that air British navy's a fust-rate place fur larnin' a feller ter know when he's well off.
The inevitable reaction occurred, and a movement in the opposite direction was begun; of this movement the most distinguished supporter was the troubadour, Guiraut de Bornelh. He had been one of the most successful exponents of the trobar clus, and afterwards supported the cause of the trobar clar. I should like to know, G. de Bornelh, why, and for what reason, you keep blaming the obscure style.
"'Kin ye kill that bird what what?" says he, p'intin' at a hawk that were a-cuttin' circles in the air. "'If he comes clus' 'nough, says Jack. "I passed him the loaded pistol. In 'bout two seconds he lifted it and bang she went, an' down come the hawk. "Them fellers all looked at one 'nother. "'Gin'ral, shake hands with this 'ere boy, says the man with the skeered eyes.
Practically nothing is known of his life; allusions in his poems lead us to suppose that he spent some time in Spain at the courts of Navarre, Castile and Aragon. The real interests of his work are literary and ethical. To his share in the controversy concerning the trobar clus, the obscure and difficult style of composition, we have already alluded.
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