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It was not pleasant to touch. But Juggins only shuddered. "Bury it in Heaven's name!" he said. "I would not have it for all the world. Besides it was alive. I saw and heard it." 'Well, we put it back in the grave, and next day we left the Sâkai country. We had seen quite as much of it as we wanted for a bit, I tell you.
Jardine had allowed to cover her eyes with regard to the benefits to be derived by any boy, no matter how weak he might be, through a judicious system of athletic exercises, the same to be lengthened as he gradually grew more capable of standing fatigue. "Hello!" Hugh called. A voice he immediately recognized as that of Horatio Juggins greeted him. "That you, Hugh?"
And when, later that afternoon, a message came round saying that irresponsible units were not to fire at hostile aircraft, owing to the danger of spent bullets, he bragged like any pernicious schoolboy. "I told you so. O Rupert, my silly little juggins, you're as dense as a vegetable marrow. I mean, you're a very low form of life." The weather broke.
The first arrival was Gowing, who, with his usual taste, greeted me with: "Hulloh, Pooter, why your trousers are too short!" I simply said: "Very likely, and you will find my temper 'SHORT' also." He said: "That won't make your trousers longer, Juggins. You should get your missus to put a flounce on them." I wonder I waste my time entering his insulting observations in my diary.
Dare say you knew what to expect. Silly old George! Though how she could ever have fancied the juggins " I was about to remark that the creature had of course played her game from entirely sordid motives and I should doubtless have ventured to applaud the game spirit in which he was taking the blow. But before I could shape my phrases on this delicate ground Mrs.
Besides these two, there was included in the party a tall chap who seemed to be acting as chauffeur, from which it might be judged that he had supplied the means for taking this nutting trip far afield; his name was Kenneth Kinkaid, but among his friends he answered to the shorter appellation of "K. K." Then came a fourth boy of shorter build, and more sturdy physique, Julius Hobson by name; and last, but far from least, Horatio Juggins, a rather comical fellow who often assumed a dramatic attitude, and quoted excerpts from some school declamation, his favorite, of course, being "Horatio at the Bridge."
"Huh!" snorted Horatio Juggins, skeptically, "I've always heard that ghosts don't mind ordinary birdshot any more'n an alligator would. But then fetch it along, Owen; it'll no doubt make us feel a little better when we find ourselves up in that terribly lonely tract of country. And who knows but what there might be a stray wildcat abroad in those woods.
"Hold on there!" the policeman shouted after me; "why, you're walking off without your hat, you Juggins! So h there; now, go on." "I indeed thought there was something something I had forgotten," I stammered, absently. "Thanks, good-night!" and I stumbled away.
'Hallo, Miss Juggins, what mischief are you up to now? he began, as he stood in the doorway. 'It's not mischief at all, said Dolly, hardly deigning to look up from her occupation. 'What have you come in for, Harold? 'For the pleasure of your conversation, said Caffyn.
When the rival teams faced each other, and listened to the last instructions of the head referee, they were found to line up as follows: Scranton High Position Keyport Stevens .......... Goal ............ Kellogg Hobson ........... Point ........... Ackerson Danvers .......... Cover Point ..... Bell Smith ............ Right End ....... Elly Dugdale .......... Center .......... Braxton Juggins .......... Left End ........ Mossman Morgan ........... Rover ........... Jackson
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