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"'Now, says I to Solly, with a wink at myself, 'here's the first dinner-station we've struck where we can get a real good plate of beans. And while he was up in his room trying to draw water out of the gas-pipe, I got one finger in the buttonhole of the head waiter's Tuxedo, drew him apart, inserted a two-dollar bill, and closed him up again.
There was visible a triangular depression, from which, possibly, an ounce of brain-substance issued. This man also recovered. Jewett mentions a case in which an injury somewhat similar to that in Bigelow's case was produced by a gas-pipe.
"It's too bad he's so nervous," said his mother-in-law, as he went out. "They say women are nervous, but I must say I don't think much of the endurance of men. How absurd he was when he spoke of the gas-pipe through the chimney!" "Well, I suppose, my dear mother," said Mrs. Perkins, sadly "I suppose he can't be bothered with little details like the lamps now.
Th' conspirators, heavily disgeesed, was attinded to th' boat be a long procission. First come Tynan ridin' on a wagon-load iv nithroglycerine; thin th' other conspirators, with gas-pipe bombs an' picks an' chuvvels f'r tunnellin' undher Winzer Castle; thin th' Ah-o-haitches; thin th' raypoorthers; thin a brigade iv Scotland Ya-ard spies in th' ga-arb iv polismin.
Some of them carried, spears, others held Birmingham matchlocks of the kind the British and French Governments have in vain tried to keep out of the hands of the West African natives. These guns are smuggled in by hundreds, by Arab traders who exchange the "gas-pipe" weapons worth perhaps two dollars a-piece for priceless ivory, and even human flesh for the slave dhows.
"Guess!" said Nance, with dancing eyes. "Wait! I know! It was on the street one night. You were standing in a drug store. A red light was shining on you, and you smiled at me." "I smiled at you because I knew you. I'd seen you before that. Once when you didn't want me to. In the factory yard behind the gas-pipe " "Were you the little girl that caught me kissing Bird that day?" "Yes!
It is just the same with a gas-pipe, and my opinion is that it is quite possible for fires to be caused by Rats in the night- time.
"'Now, says I to Solly, with a wink at myself, 'here's the first dinner-station we've struck where we can get a real good plate of beans. And while he was up in his room trying to draw water out of the gas-pipe, I got one finger in the buttonhole of the head waiter's Tuxedo, drew him apart, inserted a two-dollar bill, and closed him up again.
It was all plain enough to see; the broken gas-pipe was flaring on the shattered woodwork of the orchestra, and this and the tables and chairs upon which it had fallen were burning fiercely, and lighting up the crowd of soldiers, officers, guests, and ladies who, less hurt than their companions, were fascinated by the scene. "There's a man in there burning," shouted the colonel "perhaps two.
Every other week when Dan was on the night shift, she made up her mind definitely that she would stand it no longer. But on the alternate weeks when she never failed to find him waiting at the gas-pipe to take her home, she thought better of it.
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