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That blow did not hit Ford; but a shorter young ruffian had also picked him out, perhaps for the same reason, and the hit he aimed reached its mark, for Ford had no extra pair of arms behind to box with. Frank Harley seemed, just then, to be remarkably busy with the heap of boys on the ground. "Spat!" that was the way something sounded; and Dab Kinzer added,
"Dunno where they are," slowly responded Dab. "Don't know where they are?" repeated a chorus of four voices. "No," said Dab. "Bill Lee's black boy had 'em on all yesterday afternoon, and I reckon he's gone a-fishing again to-day. They fit him a good sight better'n they ever did me."
If there was a good deal of wet snow you had a snowball fight, which is great fun, unless you get one right smack dab in your ear oh, but I can't begin to tell you all the fun there is at the noon hour in the country school, that the town children don't know anything about.
Annie looked at her brother and nodded, and there was a bit of a twinkle in the eyes of the lawyer himself, but he only remarked: "Well, you must be neighborly. I don't believe the Hart boys know much about the sea-shore." "Dab and Frank and I will try and educate them." Annie thought of the ink and her box of ruined cuffs and collars while her brother was speaking.
They did it by hand, not with the machine. The sheep was seized and flung down on his side and held there; and the students took off his coat with great celerity and adroitness. Sometimes they clipped off a sample of the sheep, but that is customary with shearers, and they don't mind it; they don't even mind it as much as the sheep. They dab a splotch of sheep-dip on the place and go right ahead.
Great ladies must they be, at the web of politics, for us to hear them cited discoursing. Henry Wilmers is not content to quote the beautiful Mrs. Warwick, he attempts a portrait. Mrs. Warwick is 'quite Grecian. She might 'pose for a statue. He presents her in carpenter's lines, with a dab of school-box colours, effective to those whom the Keepsake fashion can stir.
"Think of your stopping me in the street to tell me I can't read!" "Then you mustn't forget me so quick," said Dab. "If you meet my old clothes anywhere you must call them Dick Lee. They've had a change of name." "So he's in them, is he? I don't doubt they look better than they ever did before."
Up to the mention of the pig, it had somehow seemed to Dab as if the railway-platform at the station, and all the people on it, had kept company with the train; and Frank Harley found himself calculating the distance between that car and the "mission" at Rangoon in far-away India.
Somehow or other I seem to possess an irresistible alluring power over mud. I have only to show myself in the street on a muddy day to be half-smothered by it. It all comes of being so attractive, as the old lady said when she was struck by lightning. If there were only one dab of mud to be found in the whole of London, I am convinced I should carry it off from all competitors.
"Watch the cereal, please," he said, "and see that it doesn't burn." "Like King Alfred?" "Not too much like him, please, for that pitiful little dab of food is about all we have to eat." When he was gone Christine advanced toward the stove and looked at the cereal looked at it closely, but it seemed to her to be but little benefited by her attention.
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