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At last their appetite was somewhat appeased, though plantains might not appeal to a gourmand as the solitary joint. "Now," decided Jenks, "you must rest here a little while, Miss Deane. I am going back to the beach. You need not be afraid. There are no animals to harm you, and I will not be far away." "What are you going to do on the beach?" she demanded. "To rescue stores, for the most part."
A toad could jump it he-he!" He sent another stream of tobacco juice afar, with the grave air as before. "And I told him so. 'Man, I says, 'what you think you're doing? "'Buildin' a fire guard, he says. 'My wife, Mr. Jenks. "'Polycarp Jenks is my cognomen, I says. 'And I don't want no misterin' in mine. Polycarp's good enough for me, I says, and I took off my hat and bowed to 'is wife.
So it would appear. Be that as it might, he had a more pressing work. If the cave still held a secret it must remain there. Iris had gone back to her sago-kneading. Necessity had made the lady a bread-maid. "Fifteen hundred years of philology bridged by circumstance," mused Jenks. "How Max Müller would have reveled in the incident!" Shouldering the axe he walked to the beach.
The school had gone for a field day to Salisbury, and they were left behind with Archie Fletcher, who had been ragging Jenks, and had been kept back for punishment, and a quantity of small fry. No work was done. In the morning they all had to go into the big schoolroom and hear Claremont read Lycidas and parts of Comus.
The men leaped to their places, and "The General" was quickly gotten under way. Watson looked at Jenks, next to whom he was huddled in the tender. "How long is this sort of thing to be kept up?" he asked. "I'd far rather get out and fight the fellows than run along this way!" Jenks brushed the rain from his grimy face but made no answer.
Yes, I know her, and I know the cur she's getting away from. I saw him strike her; so did Mr. Jenks. What were you intending to do? Turn her out into the night? Shame on you, sir. She says she can't go back to Benton, and if you'll be humane enough to understand why, you'll at least let her stay in your camp till morning. You've got women there who'll care for her, I hope."
Seneca tells how the island of Theresæa arose in a moment from the sea, thereby astounding ancient mariners, as well it might. Had this manifestation been repeated within a cable's length from the reef, Jenks was in mood to accept it as befitting the new order of things. Being in good condition, he soon recovered his physical powers.
And the amount of energy he wasted every game in hacking the bodies of any who got in his way must have been exhausting. Gordon had to speak to him almost severely once or twice. In the game against Rogers's, Bray nearly got sent off the field. There had been a tight scrum which had more or less collapsed. The whistle blew. Jenks had been persuaded to referee. "Now then, form up properly there."
Jenks said a moment later. "What are you doing up here?" demanded the man again. "Don't you know this is private property?" "We we were just looking around," answered Mr. Jenks, which was true enough; as far as it went. "Prospecting," added Tom. "After gold?" demanded the second man, suspiciously. "We'd be glad to find some," retorted the lad. At that moment Mr.
On the union of England and Scotland: P. H. Brown, The Legislative Union of England and Scotland ; W. L. Matthieson, Scotland and the Union, 1695-1747 ; Daniel Defoe, History of the Union between England and Scotland . On the rise of the cabinet system: Mary T. Blauvelt, The Development of Cabinet Government in England , a clear brief outline; Edward Jenks, Parliamentary England: the Evolution of the Cabinet System ; and the general constitutional histories mentioned above.