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In still more defiant tones, McKay expresses the aggressive response which many Negroes made during the race riots of 1919: If we must die, let it not be like hogs Hunted and penned in an inglorious spot, While round us bark the mad and hungry dogs, Making their mock at our accursed lot. If we must die, O let us nobly die, So that our precious blood may not be shed In vain...
In his soul Jolly Roger McKay felt the urge and the call of that voiceless Master Power, and through his lips came an unconscious whisper of prayer of gratitude. And he watched the light in Jed Hawkins' cabin, and strained his ears to hear a sound of footsteps coming through the moonlight. But there was no change. The light did not move. A door did not open or close.
Well, I must be going," said the half-breed, preparing to leave. "I wished much to have your horse and cart, for they are both good, and I would offer you 4 pounds for the trip, which, you know, is double the usual charge, for I never grudge a good price for a good thing." "Yes, all the more when you hev no intention to pay it," said McKay with a laugh.
"I was done brown down there in the bush that night. Mosquitoes were worse than a volley of rifle bullets." "But -I don't understand," protested the professor. Captain McKay laughingly explained.
He broke through the dune-crust at the end of his tunnel and crawled out into the thick, gray dawn of a barren-land day. The sky was heavy overhead, and the wind had died out. It was the beginning of the brief lull which came in the second day of the Great Storm. McKay laughed softly as he sensed the odds against them. "We'll be having the storm at our heels again before long, Pied-Bot," he said.
She was popular with them, evidently, for no one would answer when La Zandunga shrieked out an angry inquiry to each. No answer was needed. There was Mariquita at the end of the garden, gossiping across the fence with young Sergeant McKay. It was quite an accident, of course.
They are sometimes afflicted with bad children; not infrequently with bad health, which doctors, at two or three guineas a visit, cannot cure, and many of them are much troubled with poverty!" "You are talking in ruddles now, Muster Sutherland," said old Duncan, who, having finished the drum-stick and its duplicate, was preparing his pipe for action. "It is not much of a riddle, Mr McKay.
"You think it's funny?" he snarled, but the blessed relief that surged through him made his voice a trifle unsteady. "Yes," said the man, "it hits me that way." "Something else may hit you," growled McKay, ready to embrace him with sheer joy. "Not unless you're a Boche," retorted the man coolly. "But I guess you're Kay McKay " "Don't get so damned familiar with names!" "That's right, too.
But the bird merely pecked at the food once or twice and then settled down with beak gaping and the film stealing over its eyes. McKay wrote on tissue the date and time of day; and a word more to say that they had, now, scarcely any chance.
"I shall not see the next attack, then?" "No; but you will see England before many weeks are gone. We are going to send you home at once." "But I had much rather not go " began McKay. "It's no use talking; everything is settled." And so it came to pass.
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