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For a moment it was on the tip of his tongue to tell Gallito that the latter's connivance in the escape of the notorious Crop-eared José was known to him; also, he was perfectly cognizant of the present whereabouts of that much-desired person, and that he, Hanson, had but to step to the telegraph office and send a wire to Los Angeles, and not only José, but Gallito would be in custody before night.
Gaspard was a little crop-eared dog who was saved from absolute homeliness by the vivacious and kindly expression of his eyes. I do not now recall how he came to domesticate himself with us, but I do know that I loved him very tenderly. One winter afternoon, when he and I were out for a walk, he ran away from me.
"Sword or pistols, before breakfast or after dinner, drunk or sober, Jack Payton's your man. D n me, it shall never be said in my time that the th suffered a crop-eared Irishman to preach to them in their own mess-room! You can send your friend to me when you please. He'll find me!" The Colonel was wiping the wine from his chin and neckcloth.
Even the girl couldn't make 'em forget the honor of capturing Crop-eared José here in Colina, so run along, run along. The girl's too pretty to be hurt with a frisky horse. My Lord!" striding down the hall again, "you fools stop scrapping with that termagant and put her out, put her out, I say."
In the course of ten or fifteen minutes, during which the ring was uncomfortably crowded, the judge managed to reduce his field of selection down to a group of six, which did not include the crop-eared Dane or exclude Jan. "Well, come," said the Mistress to Betty, "this does not look like prejudice against the larger breeds: Jan, and two other big dogs, with one bulldog and two terriers."
If pedants be damned for whipping poor little innocent wretches their scholars, he is, upon my honour, by this time fixed within Ixion's wheel, lashing the crop-eared, bobtailed cur that gives it motion. If they are saved for having whipped innocent lads, he ought to be above the An end of the storm. Shore, shore! cried Pantagruel. Land to, my friends, I see land!
Cosmo Comyne Bradwardine of Bradwardine and Tully-Veolan, retorted the sportsman in huge disdain, 'that I'll make a moor-cock of the man that refuses my toast, whether it be a crop-eared English Whig wi' a black ribband at his lug, or ane wha deserts his ain friends to claw favour wi' the rats of Hanover. In an instant both rapiers were brandished, and some desperate passes exchanged.
"Hallo!" shouted a voice Fred had before heard, "here's my fire-eating young ambassador. Why, hang it all, sirrah! How is it you were not to the front before? I'd rather have given up my sword to you than have had it knocked out of my hand by the ugliest crop-eared knave I ever met."
Why am I so tame? Why crush I not the viper? Fear replied, Watch him a while, and let his strength be tried." THE next morning, after breakfast, the banker took his horse a crop-eared, fast-trotting hackney and merely leaving word that he was going upon business into the country, and should not return to dinner, turned his back on the spires of C . He rode slowly, for the day was hot.
Crop-eared José was a famous and slippery bandit, and his latest exploit had been the robbery of an express car and subsequent vanishing with a sum approximating thirty thousand dollars.
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