Vietnam or Thailand ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Updated: June 2, 2025
His own emptied guns placed in their holsters, Drew caught up the carbine the Yankee had dropped. He gave Boyd a shove. "Run!" They dodged in and out of a swirling mass of fighting men, somehow reaching the line of horse holders. Drew found Croaker standing stolidly with dragging reins, got into the saddle, and reached down a hand to aid Boyd up behind him.
Into the swarm of mosquitoes the birds flew, and they caught hundreds of them in their bills and killed them, and the rest were so frightened that they flew away, and in that manner Bawly was saved. So that’s how he went hunting all alone, and when he got home his Grandpa Croaker and all the folks thought him very brave.
Farewell! 'Out, croaker! muttered Arbaces, as the door closed on the hag's tattered robes; and, impatient of his own thoughts, not yet recovered from the past dream, he hastily summoned his slaves. It was the custom to attend the ceremonials of the amphitheatre in festive robes, and Arbaces arrayed himself that day with more than usual care.
He praised Goldsmith's Good-natured Man; said, it was the best comedy that had appeared since The Provoked Husband, and that there had not been of late any such character exhibited on the stage as that of Croaker. I observed it was the Suspirius of his Rambler. He said, Goldsmith had owned he had borrowed it from thence.
The spot on which the fight took place was uneven, and covered with little hillocks and hollows, over which Bob Croaker stumbled, and into which he fell, being a clumsy boy on his legs, and did himself considerable damage; while Martin, who was firmly knit and active as a kitten, scarcely ever fell, or, if he did, sprang up again like an India-rubber ball.
So Bawly hopped out, and Grandpa Croaker, who was asleep in the rocking chair didn’t hear him go. Anyhow, I don’t believe the old gentleman frog would have cared, for Bawly’s papa was at work in the wallpaper factory and his mamma had gone to the five and ten cent store to buy a new dishpan that didn’t have a hole in it.
A few minutes brought them to the banks of the stream, where Bob Croaker halted, and, turning round, held the white kitten up by the nape of the neck. "O spare it! spare it, Bob! don't do it please don't, don't do it!" gasped Martin, as he strove in vain to run faster.
How many, in such English as you have attained to, and what did they mean according to your wizardry?" "Pergui, you, too, are not polite! Your words are like this" measuring off an expanding half yard in the air, "they are all wind." "Smart boy! How many crows did you see this morning?" "First I saw two and then I saw three." "Two and three make five. Croaker!
"It's a-blowin' too hard," squeaked the small boy, as he ranged alongside. "I'm afeared you'll be blowed out." "Nonsense!" cried Bob Croaker, grasping the rope which the boy threw to him. "Jump on board, younker; we don't want you to help us, and you're too heavy for ballast. Slip down the side, Martin, and get in while I hold on to the rope. All right? now I'll follow.
By the way, to-morrow is the fateful 5th of October one more day, and all will be well with us." "Or ill," said my sister gloomily. "Why, what a little croaker you are, to be sure!" I cried. "What in the world is coming over you?" "I feel nervous and low-spirited," she answered, drawing closer to my side and shivering. "I feel as if some great peril were hanging over the heads of those we love.
Word Of The Day
Others Looking