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On thus being deserted, and complying with an inborn instinct of fear, he made his first attempt to rise and follow, and although unsuccessful it caused his mother to return and by her gentle nosings and lickings to calm him. Then in an effort to rise he struggled to his knees, only to collapse like a limp rag.
"Puts scent on his handkerchief every morning musk. Oh, he is a dandy! But wait a bit! Seventeen shillings! Isn't it a lot for two pairs of gloves? And, I say!" "Yes." "He's an awful dandy about his gloves too. By and by, when he's had his licking, two lickings, for you shall give him one too, I'll tell you what we'll always say to him." "Well?" "We'll say, `What sized gloves do you take?"
They were always fair fights, for he fought as a boy and not as a prince. He took his lickings like a prince, however, and his victories like a boy. The one thing he wanted to do above all others was to play foot-ball. But they taught him fencing, riding, shooting and tennis instead, for, said they, foot-ball is only to be looked-at, not played, fine argument, said Robin!
Jane's sentiment was like a full molasses pitcher that continues to drip in spite of all the lickings you give it. At once I saw I was in for an overflow. It was the only part of the story she took in, and as she listened, passed into some kind of a spell. She cuddled down into her chair and shut her eyes like a child in the ecstasies of a fairy story.
We recalled a thousand episodes and escapades, the lickings we got, and the lickings others got in our stead, the pretty school-teacher whom we swore to wed when we grew up. Nobody else had a chance to get a word in edgewise. But Nancy laughed aloud at times. She had been a witness to many of these long-ago pranks. "What! you are not going to the ball?"
A gent gets pretty good with a gun, then they say he's the best that ever breathed that he's never been beat. But they forget things that happened just a year back. No, sir; I sure took my lickings when I started." "But, dog-gone it, Ronicky, you ain't twenty-four now!" "Between sixteen and twenty-two I spent a pile of time in bed, Bill, and you can lay to that!" "And you kept practicing?"
He is too well fed and supplied with pocket-money ever to feel the need for theft, but it is difficult to get him to understand Dr. Arnold's views about lying and honour. Though not wanting in pluck, he lacks the wholesome experience of a few good lickings, and can easily pass his school-days without having a single fight.
"It seems a shame " began Tod, when they were once more outside, then asked abruptly: "Willing to take a licking, Jerry?" "And go back on the Skyrocket? Did you think we were going any other way? And leave the machine here for anybody to come along and study out or steal? Not much! I'll take a dozen lickings!" But he didn't.
Ah, old Wolfe, if your homesick nurse could but have interpreted those expressive looks, those eloquent waggings of your bushy tail, as it flapped upon the grass, or waved from side to side; those gentle lickings of the hand, and mute sorrowful glances, as though he would have said, "Dear mistress, I know all your troubles; I know all you say; but I cannot answer you!"
Allee's lips began to tremble, and even Peace, remembering the Doctor's words in regard to lickings the night of the surprise party in the little brown house, shook in her shoes; but she steadfastly returned his gaze, and quietly repeated, "You know you didn't, grandpa!" "No," he said at last.
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