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They were not afraid; for they had a gun, and quite longed for a chance to fire it. Now it happened that the farmer had a good deal of money in the house, and some bad men knew it; so they waited for him to go away that they might steal it. Cocky was picking about in the field when he heard voices behind the wall, and peeping through a hole saw two shabby men hiding there.
But Milliken, captain of detectives, was too well known to her, and she yielded to the law of which he was the symbol and of which she was credulously ignorant. As Michael started out of the room on the end of a rope, a plaintive call of reminder came from the window-sill, where perched a tiny, snow-white cockatoo. "Cocky," he called. "Cocky."
"Yes," said Parson; "and jolly cocky he is about it, too!" "He's not been down at the practices lately, though," said Telson, colouring slightly, and for no apparent reason. "Why? Is he seedy?" said the captain. "Eh! No; I don't think so. Wyndham's not seedy, is he, should you think, Parson?" "No," said Parson, exchanging uncomfortable glances with his ally; "not exactly seedy."
"We'd have been wage-earners still, or struggling little cocky farmers at the best, but for that letter of General Harran's though, I think more was due to the way you butted into their taxi!" "I believe it was," laughed Tommy. "It was the sort of thing to appeal to the Lintons it wouldn't to everybody. But the letter was behind it, saying what a worthy young man you were!"
The infantry did not believe much in our air supremacy at any time, not knowing what work was done beyond their range of vision, and seeing our machines crashed in No Man's Land, and hearing the rattle of machine-guns from hostile aircraft above their own trenches. "Those aviators of ours," a general said to me, "are the biggest liars in the world. Cocky fellows claiming impossible achievements.
Those who had come in, soaked and surly, ate their dinner in silence and discomfort and took themselves away, leaving the freshly scrubbed floor as mucky as a moss-hag on the moor. Late in the afternoon a sergeant, risen from the ranks and cocky about it, came in and turned himself out of a dripping greatcoat, dapper and dry in his red tunic, pipe-clayed belt, and winking buttons.
I am prepared to pay you well for your trouble, but I insist on information that is backed up with sound, accurate truth." Peter became more relaxed but still slightly uneasy. He didn't like the attitude of this man, Mirestone. He was too sure of himself altogether too cocky. But then on the other hand he had said there would be a financial gain from any business that he could transact with him.
Unfortunately he never tried the effect of deserving better treatment as a remedy for his woes. The parson's good advice and Miss Betty's entreaties were alike in vain. He was ungrateful even to Thomasina. The little ladies sighed and thought of the lawyer. And the parson preached patience. "Cocky has been tamed," said Miss Kitty thoughtfully, "perhaps John Broom will get steadier by-and-by."
"Yes, man dear!" he said. "Heaven didn't make y'r arm as strong as y' wanted it, eh?" He was very cocky, and pushed out either cheek importantly with his tongue. Father Pat was now washing a rapidly closing eye on a sadly battered countenance. "Shure, Heaven'll deal with ye in its own good time!" he promised, nodding a portentous head. Big Tom snorted.
He was incessantly dwelling upon the man's descent from a position of comfort and ease to "quod" as he termed it. He would go up to the prisoner, pacing the exercise yard, and slapping him on the back would yap: "Now then, old sport! Don't get so down in the mouth about it!" The prisoner would venture some snappy retort. "All right, Cocky!
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