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Meanwhile Coaldust, who had been inspecting the result of our friends' united labours with some interest, suddenly echoed the question which had first exercised Champion's logical mind by inquiring what the blank dash the two adjectival criminals and the qualified nipper thought they were doing to the asterisked road. He received no encouragement.
I've run it careless-like, and I know pretty near what there is in it. So I said to Kate: "'I'll see Bob and his wife, and the little nipper " "Goodness!" ejaculated Nan, under her breath. Uncle Henry's eyes twinkled and the many wrinkles about them screwed up into hard knots. "Beg pardon!" he exclaimed, for his ears were very sharp. "This young lady, I should have said.
I turned to the boatswain, who was now standing beside me "Is that you or Davy Jones steering, Mr Nipper? if you had not been here bodilv at my elbow, I could have sworn that was your voice." When the gunner made the same remark it startled the poor fellow he tried to take it as a joke, but could not. "There may be a laced hammock with a shot in it, for some of us ere morning."
I had one very noble-looking kangaroo hound that I had brought from Australia with me, and my 'bobbery pack' of terriers contained canine specimens of all sorts, sizes, and colours. On nearing a village, you would see one black fellow, 'Pincher, set off at a round trot ahead, with seemingly the most innocent air in the world. 'Tilly, 'Tiny, and 'Nipper' follow.
The factor told him to come in again for a minute and leading the way to the kitchen-door he ushered little Snjolfur into the warmth. He asked the cook if she couldn't give this nipper here a bite of something to eat, preferably something warm he could do with it. Little Snjolfur would not accept any food. Aren't you hungry? asked the astonished factor.
Even Susan Nipper softened towards the home of so many years, as they were on their way towards it. Gloomy as it was, and rigid justice as she rendered to its gloom, she forgave it a great deal. 'I shall be glad to see it again, I don't deny, Miss, said the Nipper. 'There ain't much in it to boast of, but I wouldn't have it burnt or pulled down, neither!
"The whatter, Dave?" came the voice of Jim Bentley, in startled tones, from the gloom on the far end of the veranda. "The quintessence," said Dave, taking his pipe out of his mouth. "You shut up, Jim. As I said, Bill Barker was the quintessence of a drover. He'd been at the game ever since he was a nipper. He run away from home when he was fourteen and went up into Queensland.
"I'll pump this woman and see how the local tradition runs." He conversed with her for some time, then turned to his son. "I can begin as I used to begin stories when you were a nipper," said Mr. Haydon. "Once upon a time there was a great king." "How long ago?" queried Jack. "Goodness knows," said his father. "Time is a mere blur in these old stories.
Men were fighting, women fainting. The Americans were screaming to Chukkers to press; the English yelling to the nipper to ride for the Almighty's sake. The brown horse and his jockey came past the Open Ditch and down the straight in a hurricane that might not have been, so little did either heed it. The little jockey was far away, riding as in a death-swoon, his face silvery beneath his cap.
There is a strange charm in the house, and in the room, in which they have been used to be together, and out of which so much is gone. It aggravates, and yet it soothes, the sorrow of the separation. Mr Toots tells Susan Nipper when he comes at night, that he hasn't been so wretched all day long, and yet he likes it.
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