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He carried a dapper little cane, with which he tapped his former prisoner to attract his attention. At sight of him Kirk drew down his brows and said, gruffly: "Don't poke me with that umbrella." He turned away, but again Alfarez touched him with the rattan. "I will spik' wit' you, hombre," he said. "If you keep jabbing me with that crutch I'll break it, and then you can't walk home."
There were modest tintinnabulations which seemed to stutter and tremble like a first avowal; there were bold rings which vibrated under some rough touch and hasty rings which sounded through the house with shivering rapidity. It was a regular peal, as Zoe said, a peal loud enough to upset the neighborhood, seeing that a whole mob of men were jabbing at the ivory button, one after the other.
The girl lifted the skillet from the stove, and let the flame flare up to hide her blushes. "He wouldn't be settin' 'round," she asserted indignantly, jabbing the fire with her fork. "He'd be up an' comin', you c'n bet on that." "What's Idy gettin' off now?" drawled Mrs. Starkweather from the other room. "Gettin' off her base," answered Parker jocosely.
The Mosby men looted them unmercifully, taking their money, their horses, and everything else they had. All through the spring of 1863, Mosby kept jabbing at Union lines of communication in northern Virginia. In June, his majority came through, and with it authority to organize a battalion under the Scott Law.
He pointed the "you" with a jabbing forefinger as he spoke it, standing in front of Mr. Newman in the lamplight and talking down to him. "Oh!" said Mr. Newman, "I see yes! A hundred years, ago I was part of my Maker's unfinished plan of to-day." "Were you?" said Carrick, snapping at him. "You were, eh? Part of we'll see! Come over to the big chair and undo your collar." Mr.
"We'll see if Kitty won't take you in again until we can be married," he said, jabbing the paper again and changing the subject almost brusquely. "If you don't want to go back to your aunt, that'll be better than a boarding house, won't it? You pay the girls out of this, and I'll look after the other bills. There's a good fellow. Now, then what's No. 18?"
And to see her in the Exchange, she was one of the four girls that I spoke of, on her high stool with a steel cap on, jabbing the connecting plugs in and out as if electricity cost nothing well, all I mean is that you could understand why it was that the commercial travellers would stand round in the Exchange calling up all sorts of impossible villages, and waiting about so pleasant and genial! it made one realize how naturally good-tempered men are.
When I scrambled up, that particular image was gone, and Tweel was in a twist of black ropey arms, just as when I first saw him. He'd missed a vital point in the beast's anatomy, but was jabbing away desperately with his beak. "Somehow, the spell had lifted, or partially lifted.
And Miss Carrie Mason, our chief operator, sits on a high stool with a receiver strapped over her rick of blond hair jabbing brass plugs with long cords attached into the right holes with unerring accuracy, and a reach which would give her a tremendous advantage in any boarding-house in the land. Sometimes she has one assistant, and in rush hours she has two.
Travelling with the swag in Australia is variously and picturesquely described as "humping bluey," "walking Matilda," "humping Matilda," "humping your drum," "being on the wallaby," "jabbing trotters," and "tea and sugar burglaring," but most travelling shearers now call themselves trav'lers, and say simply "on the track," or "carrying swag." And there you have the Australian swag.
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