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"Peregrine," said he, shaking grave head at me, "your aunt Julia is right a wonderful woman! Poetry is your line, after all books romances, lad imagination " "You think I am romancing, sir?" "Aye, though I call it 'gammoning." "Sir, you affront me!" "No offence, Perry," said he kindly. "You just can't help it comes natural to you like a gamecock fights. What other marvels have you seen?"
Every man, no matter how poor, owns a horse and three or four gamecocks. The small planter is called "Xivaro." He is the proud possessor of a sweet-heart, a gamecock, a horse, a hammock, a guitar and a large supply of tobacco. He is quick tempered but not revengeful, and he is proverbially lazy. Hospitality is the rule of the island.
"No, no, my son," he answered, "you are always welcome. Did we not campaign together? Did we not shoot these very falls together on our way to Kaskaskia?" He had to raise his voice above the roar of the water. "Faith, well I remember the day. And you saved it, Davy, you, a little gamecock, a little worldly-wise hop-o'-my-thumb, eh?
In truth, Grim had rather fairly described him as a gamecock. His stature, the bristly red hair that flamed above a freckled face, the lightest of blue eyes that snapped with excitement, the peculiar strut of him. "You'll do," he said briefly. At a safe distance a crowd was gathering, a crowd of Earthmen. Grim surveyed them carefully. They were milling back and forth, but no one dared come closer.
They do not believe that the females prefer certain males on account of the beauty of their plumage; but some allowance must be made for the artificial state under which these birds have long been kept. Mr. Tegetmeier is convinced that a gamecock, though disfigured by being dubbed and with his hackles trimmed, would be accepted as readily as a male retaining all his natural ornaments. Mr.
All suggestion of Romish or Episcopalian tradition was scrupulously avoided, even to the omission of the cross and the substitution of a weather-vane or gamecock. Only one church told a different story.
Young Gamecock, the owner of a small estate adjoining Rookwood Park, was full of gratitude, and often called upon Lady Rooke to thank her for her kindness. Mr.
Burton took up their quarters at the Hotel de la Ville, he walking along with his gamecock under his arm, and she with her bull-terrier under hers." It was felt that they must be a very odd couple, and they were looked at rather askance. This distrust was probably reciprocated, for at first both Isabel and her husband felt like fish out of water, and did not like Trieste at all.
Why, you ugly, indecent-looking outrage upon humanity, you set fire to the place through your clumsiness, and then come and insult me for not being burned to death." "Haw! haw! haw!" laughed one of the men. "Well crowed, young gamecock." "You cowardly lubbers, why didn't you come sooner to help me, instead of leaving me to frizzle here?
"So ho, my little gamecock, my little schooner with a swivel," said he who had called himself Jack Ball, "and where can this valiant butcher be found?" "He waits in the street," I answered more boldly. "Split me fore and aft if he waits long," said Jack, draining the rest of his rum.
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