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Updated: May 12, 2025
But Jack, in a white heat of indignation, folded his arms and remained doggedly where he was. Let them shoot, the skunks! Let them shoot, the stinking cowards! This was his house, and he would remain beside it until the crack of doom, shells or no shells. He would stand off them fire-bugs and looters when they landed, and tell them officers what a plain American citizen thought of them.
"No, but we thought you might be kidnappers, or murderers, or fire-bugs, like our last neighbors!" "Eleanor! Are you crazy and if you're not, what on earth are you talking about?" "I'm not as crazy as I seem to be, Mary. It's only fair to tell you now that this beach may be a pretty troubled spot while we're here. We seem to attract trouble just as a magnet attracts iron."
I was then a customer of G.W. Badger and Lindenberger, clothiers, and was present one day in their store when some of the clerks came in from general duty, and their comrades shouldered the same guns and took their places on guard. The Committee was so truly vigilant that these fire-bugs, robbers and cut-throats had to hide for safety.
Don't bother with it. You know how we made out with the pink crabs." "Yes," put in Julia. "Let's change our color scheme. Here's a lovely amethyst shell." The trot was started up again, heads erect, shoulders back, and elbows in regular marathon for the beach on this perfect summer's day. "Look here!" called Cleo. "Here's another message about fire-bugs.
"Trouble?" he enquired. "Every sort." The tall man's eyes were smiling. "There's jacks quitting and pulling out, and nobody seems to know how they're getting, seeing it's winter. Others are going slow. There's others grumbling for things you never heard tell of before. There's fire-bugs at work, and the forest 'phones are being cut or otherwise tampered with all the time.
Then he thrust a gnarled brown hand up under his fur hood, and scratched his head. "There's our forest 'phones. They're bein' cut. It's the same everywhere. There's most always things to break 'em happenin', but a break aint a cut. No. They're cut. Who's cuttin' 'em, and why? Fire-bugs. It ain't grouchy jacks. No. I've heerd the jacks are on the buck in parts, but that ain't their play.
The other reckons to paralyse our cut. So far these folks have failed against the fire-guard organisation, and I guess they'll likely miss most of their fire-bugs when they call the roll. The other's different." Bull knocked out his pipe on the stove and gazed thoughtfully at the streak of brilliant light under the edge of the front damper.
"Never will he speak again," says he, and I am bound to say that I hev heard the critter discourse once. The mummy let some awful yells out of him when the fire-bugs came aboard. 'Yes, we heard a human cry, said Bude. 'I had thought the talk was managed with a concealed gramophone, said the captain, 'but it wasn't. The Bunyip from Central Australia has gone to his long home.
When that happens I guess you can roll up every other old schedule, an' pass it into the beater to make new paper. It's the only use for it. See? But I 'low I don't know women like I do groundwood, which was the stuff that fetched me here right now. You see, I was feelin' good about things, an' I fancied handin' you the news of them 'fire-bugs' myself.
He helped himself to a chew of tobacco and kicked a cuspidore within his reach. "The fire-bugs are out," he said. "The last of 'em. I jest got word through. It's the seventh. An' it's the tally." It was a sharp, matter-of-fact statement. He was telling of a human killing, and there was no softening. Bull nodded. He glanced over his shoulder. "You mean ?" "They shot five of 'em to death.
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