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He also looked at the water and sighed sentimentally. "'Floatin' buoys with bills onto 'em is a idea of mine, he observed. 'That damn ocean is monotonous, ain't it? "I don't know what I might have done to Frisby the rifle was so convenient if his mean yellow dog had not waddled up at this juncture. "'Hi, Davy, sic 'em! said Frisby, expectorating upon a clam-shell and hurling it seaward.
He was wondering if after all there was not something to be said for the methods of the caveman when he went a-wooing. Twinges of conscience the caveman may have had when all was over, but at least he had established his right to look after the woman he loved. "They tell me . . . I am told . . . I am informed . . . No, one moment, Miss Frisby." Mrs Peagrim wrinkled her fair forehead.
"At that moment, over a near dune, two horses' heads appeared, followed by two human heads, then a wagon, then a yellow dog. "I turned triumphantly to the professor. "'You are the very man I want, he muttered 'the very man the very man. "I looked at Daisy Holroyd. She returned my glance with a defiant little smile. "'Waal, said Captain McPeek, driving up, 'here we be! Git out, Frisby.
There was a stir in the room above me; the shutter was cautiously opened and I was covered by the muzzle of a pistol. "Who are you?" demanded a voice which I knew to be Charles Gordon's. "James Frisby of Fairlee," I replied. "I have ridden to warn you, Mr. Gordon. You have only a few minutes to escape in; James Rodolph, with a hundred men behind him, will be here in ten minutes."
Lieutenant Ray was sent with a detachment of troops and the Indians at Apache Springs were removed and the main body of the settlers, then temporarily located on the Showlow, moved over the ridge into the new valley. In March, 1878, the settlers included Merritt Staley, Oscar Mann, Ebenezer Thayne, David E. Adams, Jos. H. Frisby, Alfred Cluff, Isaac Follett, Orson Cluff and several unmarried men.
I longed to say, 'Well, what the devil are you digging for? but I only stared into the hole as though hypnotized. "'Captain McPeek and Frisby ought to be here, he said, looking first at Daisy and then across the meadows. "I ached to ask him why he had subpoenaed Captain McPeek and Frisby. "'They are coming, said Daisy, shading her eyes. 'Do you see the speck on the meadows?
Called to the stand, Simon Frisby testified that "he was telegraph operator, and night train despatcher for railway in X . On October the twenty-sixth, had just gone on duty at 8 P.M. at the station, when prisoner came in, and sent a telegram to New York. A copy of that message had been surrendered to the District Solicitor.
"After he had erected it over me he stopped to chat a bit, but the conversation bored me, for he could talk of nothing but bill-posting. "'You wouldn't ruin the landscape here, would you? I asked. "'Ruin it! repeated Frisby, nervously. 'It's ruined now; there ain't a place to stick a bill. "'The snipe stick bills in the sand, I said, flippantly. "There was no humor about Frisby.
"I thought," he cried; but suddenly the humour of our meeting came over him. Thrusting his hands into his pockets, he broke out into a hearty burst of laughter, and I could do nothing but follow. "And so, Master Frisby, you rode down the east road." "And you, methinks, rode down the south." Again our laughter rang through the woods. "Come," he cried, "which is it to be?
"'Frisby, said I, 'use them all paste the whole collection over your dog and yourself then walk off the cliff. "He sullenly unfolded a green poster, swabbed the boiler with paste, laid the upper section of the bill upon it, and plastered the whole bill down with a thwack of his brush. As I walked away I heard him muttering.
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