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Just then the train pulled into a station which I hadn't paid for, but I went out and took it, because it contained a little fresh air. Some day I will mention the name of this railroad company and make them blush. Well, after I left Bunch that afternoon, I ducked for the depot, and reached Ruraldene just in time to witness the beginning of a most painful episode.
"Then me for the bunch grass. It's like going to a funeral to hear Chunky try to tell a story." "Let him tell it," shouted the lads. "Go on, Chunky. Never mind Ned. He'll laugh when he gets back to Chillicothe," jibed Walter. "I heard of a fellow once " "Yes; you told us that before," jeered Ned. "Not the one we ducked in the spring, was it?" grinned Tad.
"Scared to death, and so unconscious of her charms. There Janie, my brain is sound asleep this moment. If I say real words they must be coming from another world. This is gone." Judith ducked deeper into the pillowless couch. She plainly was sleepy. "Why Judith Stearns," called Jane severely, "you are giving me as much trouble as a baby. Don't you dare fall asleep. We have got to make beds yet.
Every married woman must perform here certain ceremonious ablutions at regular intervals. Cleanliness is as strictly enjoined as godliness, and the manner of attaining it is carefully prescribed. The women are prepared by the attendants for entering the pool, the curious children looking on. In the pool they are ducked over their heads the correct number of times.
"He thrust at me again, but I bent myself thus," and he ducked his great head. "Then he grew tired and my time came. He turned and ran round the rock, and I, I ran after him, stabbing him through the back, thus, and thus, and thus, till he fell, crying for mercy, and rolled off the rock into the river; and as he rolled I snatched away his plume. See, is it not the plume of the dead dog Umbelazi?"
As soon as we rose on Tuesday morning, Jacko was placed in a canvass bucket, and thrice ducked in the sea; when his yells were caught up by a flock of little Danes dabbling in the water along the shore, who gave shriek for shriek.
The Frenchman was about to say something, when just above their heads, terrible and low, a cannon ball whistled, and it seemed to Pierre that the French officer's head had been torn off, so swiftly had he ducked it. Pierre too bent his head and let his hands fall.
Digby the landsman maintained discipline, reconciled quarrels, doctored his men, ducked them for disorderliness, and directed the naval and military operations like any old veteran. He answered with such pluck and decision that, after a three hours' fight, the enemy was completely at his mercy, and the Venetians "quitted to him the signiority of the roade."
And down through the woods to the swimming-hole Where the big, white, hollow, old sycamore grows, And we never cared when the water was cold, And always "ducked" the boy that told On the fellow that tied the clothes. When life went so like a dreamy rhyme, That it seems to me now that then The world was having a jollier time Than it ever will have again.
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