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Updated: June 16, 2025
Constantly the deafening crash came nearer, and crept around farther to the right. Si gave a swift glance at Shorty. His partner's teeth were set, his face drawn and bloodless, his eyes fixed immovably on the Colonel. "Awful fightin' goin' on out there, Shorty," said Si, in hushed voice. "I'm afraid they're lickin' our fellers."
The mutineers stared at each other, at the small white face confronting them, at the boys and girls about them. It was a great moment in their lives, an imperishable experience. The biggest spoke first, sheepishly, roughly, almost defiantly "Come on up, boys; we'll hev to take a lickin' this time." Alethea-Belle went back to the rostrum, trembling.
Looking around, Toby saw his little acquaintance of the evening previous, and he tried to force back the big tears that were rolling down his cheeks as he said, in a voice choked with grief: "You're awful good, an' I don't mind the lickin' when you say you're sorry for me. I s'pose I deserve it for runnin' away from Uncle Dan'l." "Did it hurt you much?" she asked, feelingly.
That took cheek, ain't? fur that little girl to stand there and jaw Jake Getz and make him quit lickin' you! By gum, that minds me of sceneries I've saw a'ready in the theayter! They most gener'ly faints away in a swoond that way, too. Well, Tillie she come round all right, ain't? till a little while?" "Yes. But she was very pale and weak, poor child!"
After the gale it was cold weather wi' dark nights. "I was in the engine-room on Friday night, just before the middle watch, when Bell whustled down the tube: 'She's done it'; an' up I came. "The Grotkau was just a fair distance south, an' one by one she ran up the three red lights in a vertical line the sign of a steamer not under control. "'Yon's a tow for us, said Bell, lickin' his chops.
Then I thought it was about time for me to take in some of my sail, and says I: 'Jerry, that's a pretty good joke, and you can take my hat as soon as I get a new one, but of course I don't mean to be hard on you, and if you really have bills to pay to-morrow I'll take a third, and Putty'll take another, and we'll go away peaceful. 'No, you won't, sings out Jerry, and with that he jumps out of bed right at me, and Putty Henderson he comes at me from the other side, and, between the two, they gave me the worst lickin' I ever got in my born days, and then they dragged me down stairs and kicked me out the front door, and I had hardly time to pick myself up before I saw a policeman about a block off, and if he hadn't been a fat one he'd had me sure.
"You've made an incineration against Miss Shaw," he shouted. "Do you hear AN INCINERATION! Take it back or take a lickin'!" The young man decided that the joke had gone far enough, so he answered, mildly: "Well, it is said that all the women in town are in love with Miss Shaw. Has that been charged against any other minister here?"
"No, he wasn't. I give him a lickin' once." The fact happened to be the other way; but Micky was not very scrupulous as to the strict truth of his statements. "You don't like him, then? Where is he now?" "He's in a store, and swells round with good clothes." "Have you seen him lately?" "No, an' I don't want to." "He wears a gold watch now. I suppose he wouldn't have anything to say to you."
"Keep yoah mouf shet much as you can when Mammy comes home to-night," he cautioned; "for I sut'n'ly don't want to ketch a lickin' on my buthday. It's mighty lucky the pan didn't get a hole knocked in her." Mammy came home just before dark. The children were on the fence waiting for her. John Jay felt sure that if Miss Hallie knew that it was his birthday she would send him something.
Now come along straight, or instead of being toted you'll get a lickin'." When they reached camp Dick staked the pet out with a line long enough to let it get into the river when it chose. He took the rope from its jaws, leaving them free, and the 'gator never took advantage of it by trying to bite.
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