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Updated: May 23, 2025
Signed: "David Dowd Langford." There it was conclusive, damning evidence of her father's guilt and of Dakota's! How cleverly that last clause covered the evil intent of the document! Sheila read it again and again with dry eyes. Her horror and grief were too great for tears.
"We'll all be mighty glad when it's over, and those of us who are unfortunate enough to get left high and dry can know the worst," said K. K. "Huh! you needn't lose any sleep over that, K. K.!" exclaimed Sandy Dowd. "Everybody knows you're a jim-dandy at the bat, and a clever fielder in the bargain. Wish I had as much chance as you and Hugh here of making the nine.
The head is the head of Diarmid, son of Dowd, and if there were two thousand of you instead of fifty, Diarmid would not let it go. 'And what are the berries that Fionn asks of us? said they. 'Those berries would never have been heard of but for the jealousy of two women of different tribes, each of whom swore that her husband could hurl a pole farther than the other.
In fact Master Dowd was so impressed with the advantages of that place as a theatre that he did not even speak to his friends until he had paced up and down the room, dreaming of the fame that might be achieved there.
Openin' the private office door easy I finds Old Hickory has settled back in his swing chair and is lightin' a fresh Fumadora satisfied. So I slips in, salutes respectful and jerks my thumb toward the directors' room. "I've put a sub. on the job, sir," says I. "Eh?" says he. "Oh, yes. Who did you find?" "A suspicious young stranger," says I. "I sicced him and Mr. Dowd on each other.
In the meantime the dinner party in Lindsay's were enjoying themselves in a spirit quite as genial as his hospitality. It consisted of two or three country squires, a Captain Dowd seldom sober a pair of twin brothers, named Gumming, with a couple of half sirs a class of persons who bore the same relation to a gentleman that a salmon-trout does to a salmon.
At this moment there rushed forth from the again agitated crowd an old woman, whose grizzled locks had escaped from under her dowd cap, and were blown in confusion about her head; she wore a drugget gown that had once been yellow, and a deep blue petticoat of the same stuff; a circumstance, which, joined to the excitement, gave to her appearance a good deal of picturesque effect.
You wind us, and then ask us to run against a fresh batch that haven't even left the stable! After we've pulled our brains out of our heads strand by strand, you'd have us stuff them back and pull them out all over again, would you? Nobody but a man with cotton-batting for brains could ask a thing like that!" "Brains!" said Dowd contemptuously.
He now completes his training in schools where aerial shooting is taught, and in others where he practises combat, group manoeuvres, and acrobatic stunts such as looping the loop and the more difficult tricks. In all it requires from seven to nine months. Dennis Dowd, of Brooklyn, N.Y., is so far the only American volunteer aviator killed while in training.
There were by this time ripe fruits of all sorts to be found, I knew, so that I had no fear of starving. I sat crouched dowd, feeling very much as I suppose a hare does, listening for the hunters eager to be off, yet not daring to leave her cover.
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