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Chuck it, will you? Once in a year we find a man we want, and then we go ahead and take him. We don't think much of money here but as I say, how much?" The "but" implied that Horning did, and hurt as it was meant to. He came into the club, took cheerfully what they offered him that way, and felt grateful ever afterwards that Maginnis had steered him to the light.
At that time, civil processes of ‘horning,’ ‘putting to the horn,’ or outlawry, were the common resort of creditors against procrastinating debtors. Many of the most respectable persons, gentlemen and ladies, appear in these suits; Robert Abercromby sues a lady of rank for 150l. Scots.
"Goin' back to the end of the line back to take our bloomin' turn," he answered wearily. "Four-nought-two, you said, didn't you?" "Yes, yes; are you deaf? What have I to do with this crowd?" "I hain't deaf, but I got eyes. Four-nought-two's where the horning's up, that's all." "The horning? What's that?" "Oh, I'm tired of egsplanations.
Quite a number strayed above the passageway, and in order to rout them out, Bob Blades, Moss Strayhorn, and I rode out through the outlet and up the river, where we found some of them in a passageway down a dry arroyo. The steers had found a soft, damp place in the bank, and were so busy horning the waxy, red mud, that they hardly noticed our approach until we were within a rod of them.
Again that thin voice from the tree, and the long, skinny arm handed down a second stick, more bulky than the other. "Gib to odder big fella. You no see. He for Missy Houten." "Everything laid out like a stage set," chuckled Little. "We are surely horning in on the deep, deep stuff, skipper. I suppose Houten will drop in on us next, appearing out of a pink cloud, or something. Golly!
"'I'm a Chief, says Billy Fish, quite quiet. 'I stay with you. My men can go. "The Bashkai fellows didn't wait for a second word but ran off, and Dan and Me and Billy Fish walked across to where the drums were drumming and the horns were horning. It was cold awful cold. I've got that cold in the back of my head now. There's a lump of it there." The punkah-coolies had gone to sleep.
Ye'll be for having a horning or a caption after him. 'I see you have no confidence in me, Mrs. Mac-Candlish; but look at these declarations, signed by the persons who saw the crime committed, and judge yourself if the description of the ruffian be not that of your guest.
For a hundred yards he careered full speed, then slowed to a trot, finally stopped, whirled, and faced to a new direction. The sound of his blowing came clearly across the intervening distance. A low bush grew near. The rhino attacked this savagely, horning it, trampling it down. The dust arose in clouds.
Suddenly she began to sing her old graduation song: "I'll sail upon the Dog-star I'll sail upon the Dog-star; I'll chase the moon, till it be noon, But I'll make her leave her horning. "I'll climb the frosty mountain And there I'll coin the weather. I'll tear the rainbow from the sky And tie both ends together." Sylvia leaned back, clapping and laughing. This was as it should be.
Thus the candidate from below, before horning in at last, must put up with an infinity of rebuff and humiliation; he must sacrifice his self-respect today in order to gain the hope of destroying the self-respect of other aspirants tomorrow.
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