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I've been marching and fighting for six weeks with the Army, and every footy little village for fifty miles has come in rejoiceful; and more than that, I've got the key of the whole show, as you'll see, and I've got a crown for you! I told 'em to make two of 'em at a place called Shu, where the gold lies in the rock like suet in mutton.
"Never mind, my merry masters," said Amyas, "she has quantity and we quality." "That's true," said one, "for one honest man is worth two rogues." "And one culverin three of their footy little ordnance," said another. "So when you will, captain, and have at her." "Let her come abreast of us, and don't burn powder. We have the wind, and can do what we like with her.
"Never mind, my merry masters," said Amyas, "she has quantity and we quality." "That's true," said one, "for one honest man is worth two rogues." "And one culverin three of their footy little ordnance," said another. "So when you will, captain, and have at her." "Let her come abreast of us, and don't burn powder. We have the wind, and can do what we like with her.
"What do they do it for?" he demanded having perhaps a vague idea that all the motives of the wild creatures were, or ought to be, purely utilitarian. Uncle Andy turned upon him a withering look; and he shifted his feet uneasily, convicted of another "footy" question. "What do you slide down hill for?" inquired Uncle Andy sarcastically. "Oh!" said the Babe hastily. "I see.
Cag-handed is worse than back-handed; it means awkward, twisted, and clumsy. You may see many a cag-handed person hacking at a fowl. Hamlet folk are very apt to look a gift horse in the mouth, and if any one should receive a present not so large as expected, it would be contemptuously described as a "footy" little thing.
I am the son of Alexander by Queen Semiramis, and youre my younger brother and a god too! Its the biggest thing weve ever seen. Ive been marching and fighting for six weeks with the Army, and every footy little village for fifty miles has come in rejoiceful; and more than that, Ive got the key of the whole show, as youll see, and Ive got a crown for you!
As soon as Swartboy recovered the control over his tongue, he ejaculated in a hurried whisper: "Pas op! My footy! he wicked! I know de ole bull duyvel." By this volley of queer phrases, Swartboy meant to caution his master against rashly approaching the elephant, as he knew him to be one of the wicked sort in short, a "rogue."
For the dry ditch is not difficult to cross, and I estimate that, once on the other side, a ladder of twenty foot in length should enable a party of half a dozen to reach the top; and, once on the parapet, they should be able to spike the whole thirty of those footy ordnance in ten minutes.
It is I, monsieur, who vill blow dat footy leetle schooner of yours into ze sky, if you do not surrendaire yourshelf plus promptement, eh!" "All right, monsieur; blaze away, then, as soon as you like!" retorted I, in the best attempt at French I could muster. Then, to my own people, who were at quarters "Stand by, starboard guns! Wait until she rolls toward us. Now, fire!"
He bought it in the bazaar at Peshawur, and sent it home to me just as he was starting on one of those little frontier wars the accounts of which they keep out of the English papers. And he was killed, poor dear old boy, in some footy little skirmish. And this is all I've got left of him." Poppy spread out the ends of the scarf for Mr. Iglesias' inspection. "It must have cost a lot of money.
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