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"Faith," he muttered, "the young cockerel ruffles his feathers early!" and then, again addressing me, he asked, "And where were you going?" "On a sea voyage, for the benefit of my health and to be out of the way." To this he made no reply, but his brows puckered up as if he were in deep thought. I stood by the window watching him, and wondering what would be the outcome of this visit.
"Look here, young man," he said more furiously than before, "I have cut the throats of more men than you have whipped, but if you want a test, I will give you one. Come down, my young cockerel, come down; there is plenty of light for comb-snipping." The man turned white with rage, but stood a moment contemplating Leonard's athletic form and keen eyes.
Jack Cockrell sat down beside his uncle, a limp and sorry youth for one who had offered to slay a six-foot pirate before breakfast to please a pretty maid. With a sickly grin he murmured: "This cockerel crowed too loud, Uncle Peter. Methinks I share your distaste for piracy." TO discover the pestilent Blackbeard in Carolina waters was like a thunderbolt from a clear sky.
Your proper apprehension of that fact will save the waste of a deal of words." Blood contained himself with difficulty. One of these fine days, he felt, that for the sake of humanity he must slit the comb of this supercilious, arrogant cockerel. "You may define our positions as you please," said he. "But I'll remind you that the nature of a thing is not changed by the name you give it.
A bullet from a coach passenger's pistol had struck his knee and he now limped. He was nearly always drunk and when drunk all his old hatreds were uppermost. Directly he saw Vane, his bleary eyes glistened and his lips tightened over his uneven teeth and the ugly gaps between. "Devil take me, if it isn't the cockerel whose feathers I've sworn to pluck.
"I've never gone up to the Rooster and spoken to him. If I did, he'd be sure to fight me." "Just tell him that I sent you," said Henrietta. And she made the cockerel listen to her message. But he wouldn't be persuaded. He told Henrietta that the Rooster would be sure to jump at him the moment he opened his mouth. "Besides," he added, "it wouldn't do any good, anyhow.
In the meantime the travelling salesman taking advantage of his silence, continued: "Yes, it was you and the financiers, and it's nothing to brag about either!" The man with the upturned nose now wheeled about sharply. His blood was up and he strangely resembled a little bantam cockerel.
When I began to march after that young cockerel had brought the orders, I was so stiff that I could hardly put one leg before the other; but the very news of you being appointed to take your place in one of the leading cohorts of the army has acted like salve, and all my stiffness is as good as gone. Carried in a litter by slaves! Me!
All the same, he saw no health in risking the open just then, and would not turn back, so there was nothing for it but the fowls. Low as low he crouched, and ran very quickly, and hoped for the best; and there is no bird that can wish itself out of sight in this fashion better than friend pheasant. But he forgot the odd cockerel out.
Do you understand that you receive the male orange cat for the dish, and the frilled tabby for the bath, or do you get both in exchange for either of these articles? Read on, Miss Hamilton." "Very well, here is one for Francesca-"'A harmonium with seven stops is offered in exchange for a really good Plymouth cockerel hatched in May."
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