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Not too long for Jerry, if the other didn't land dangerously and more often than he. Clancy played for the head, and caught the boy fairly on the jaw, but got a blow in the ribs that made him grunt. Jerry did most of the leading, ducking a vicious swing of Clancy's right, that made the Sailor look foolish, and brought a roar of delight from the crowd.
The second was rougher, and the men strained at the oars to give the yawl as much headway as possible. The last wave came "quartering" and threw a hatful of water into Ralph's face, whereat Mr. Duff laughed cheerily. "One ducking!" he cried. "But now comes the tug of war. Jump her, boys! Jump her, I say!"
You're a lost man, you see you couldn't make your way while I oh, give it to me!" Chelkash, dismayed, amazed, and wrathful, sat on the sand, thrown backward with his hands supporting him; he sat there in silence, rolling his eyes frightfully at the young peasant, who, ducking his head down at his knees, whispered his prayer to him in gasps.
Their guns were found to be none the worse for their ducking; the loads, of course, were wet, and had to be drawn, but a good coat of oil, and a thorough rubbing inside and out, made them look as good as new.
That, too, when some of the men are scampering for cover, and ducking chance pellets from the woolly white cloud that breaks overhead. The women will eat their luncheon with relish within three hundred feet of a French battery in full blaze. Is there a test left to the pride of man that the modern woman does not take lightly and skilfully?
"Margari," cried he, "go to the carriage, look for my fiddle and bring it hither!" At this command poor Margari had a veritable ague fit of terror. All this time he had remained ducking down in the carriage firmly persuaded that the robbers in this lonely place would cut down every mother's son of them at nightfall.
"Oh, they're just taking a swim, that's all," explained his father. "They said 'bano, which is Spanish for bath." Nevertheless, this struck Charley as a dangerous thing to do, in a river swarming with alligators and other reptiles; yet frisking about and blowing and ducking Maria and Francisco seemed to be enjoying themselves. They swam like seals.
Mathews used to do in his celebrated 'At Homes. One day Peter would be seen ducking under the mews' entrance in one of those greasy, painfully well-brushed hats, the certain precursors of soiled linen and seedy, most seedy-covered buttoned coats, that would puzzle a conjuror to say whether they were black, or grey, or olive, or invisible green turned visible brown.
He had ridden logs down the rapids where a loss of balance meant in one instant a ducking and in the next a blow on the back from some following battering-ram; he had tugged and strained and jerked with his peavey under a sheer wall of tangled timber twenty feet high, behind which pressed the full power of the freshet, only to jump with the agility of a cat from one bit of unstable footing to another when the first sharp CRACK warned him that he had done his work, and that the whole mass was about to break down on him like a wave on the shore; he had worked fourteen hours a day in ice-water, and had slept damp; he had pried at the key log in the rollways on the bank until the whole pile had begun to rattle down into the river like a cascade, and had jumped, or ridden, or even dived out of danger at the last second.
'Oh! a great flood is famous fun, said he. 'Surely, said Philip, 'I have heard a legend of your being nearly drowned in some flood. 'Yes, said Guy, 'I had a tolerable ducking. 'Oh, tell us about it! said Amy. 'Ay! I have a curiosity to hear a personal experience of drowning, said Charles. 'Come, begin at the beginning.
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