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"He tried to bite me," explained the boy. "See he tore a lacer in my leggin. I didn't see him till I almost stepped on him. I knew right off that it was the pussy that Lige shot at last night." "What happened then?" asked Tad, with an admiring grin on his face. "I fetched him one on the side of the head with a club. He jumped at me and I hit him again.
Emett, too, had all his weight on the lasso round her neck. Between the two of us we choked her hold loose, but she brought Jones' leather leggin in her teeth. Then I dropped the chain and jumped. " !" exploded Jones to me. "Do you think more of a picture than of saving my life?" Having expressed this not unreasonable protest, he untied the lasso that Emett had made fast to a small sapling.
Little Thady Kilfoyle reported that he had met the strange man a bit down the road, "leggin' it along at a great rate, wid a black rowl of somethin' under his arm that he looked to be crumplin' up as small as he could" the word "crumpling" went acutely to Mrs.
I had met him afore in Cape Breton, and had sold him a clock. Well, he was a leggin it off hot foot. Possible! says I, Father John, is that you? Why, what on airth is the matter of you what makes you in such an everlastin hurry, driven away like one ravin distracted mad? A sick visit, says he; poor Pat Lanigan, him that you mind to Bradore Lake, well he's near about at the pint of death.
See the goney, how his pencil is a leggin' it off, for dear life. Oh, there is great fun in crammin' those fellers. "Now tell me candid, Squire; do you think there is no prejudice in the Britishers agin us and our free and enlightened country, when they can swaller such stuff as the Gougin' School and Black Stole?" "There is more in that story, Squire," said Mr.
That's better gin naething. I nailed twa o' the bails till him out o' Tarn Dargie's pooch, when he was fechtin' wi' the captain. Snapper Morrison didna get onything; but he ower the Common dyke an' in the road; an' when I was comin' hame I saw him leggin' in the Loan wi' the orange box on his heid. He had nabbit it oot o' Tooties' Nook, whaur they keepit their bats an' wickets.
Dismounting from his horse, he then takes from his leggin the butcher-knife that he always carries with him, and sticks the animal in the throat. He soon bleeds to death, when, in an incredibly short space of time for such a performance, the carcass is flayed and quartered, and the meat is either roasting before the fire or simmering in the stew-pan.
I saw two geese leggin' it back as fast as they could go, and each one scoldin' the other one we'll have a good spell or winter yet, I am afraid, in spite of our two warm days and all the signs of Spring." "Weather like you is too good to last," said Mrs. Watson complacently, "I knew it wasn't the Spring, it was too good to last."
"For Parker, instead of comin' back, had turned and was leggin' it for the launch as fast as he could, and that was some. "'Stop! roars the Pinkerton man, jumpin' down the steps. 'Stop, or "'Hold him, Jim! screeched Parker, over his shoulder.
You better believe I done the heat of my life," said David, "an' more luck, the doctor was home an' jest finishin' his tea. His house an' office wa'n't but two three blocks off, an' in about a few minutes me an' him an' his bag was leggin' it fer my house, though I noticed he didn't seem to be 'n as much of a twitter 's I was.
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