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"It was good, but I'd a heap sight rather drink my water standing. One doesn't take in so much sand that way." "Wa ater!" gasped Emma Dean. "And it isn't another mirage?" "It is water, my dear, but how much of a supply there is remains to be seen. What were you doing out so early?" "I was going out to get some water food from that horrible looking pumpkin plant, or whatever it is." "Ping!
All day the murderous "ping! ping!" of the hidden Mauser in the jungle had stung the air about them. Late in the afternoon Thaine lay crouched behind his low defense with a college comrade on either side. Colonel Funston had just given the command to rid the woods of the sharpshooters, and the force ordered to the attack came racing by.
Next came the sharp unmistakable "ping" of a bullet passing, as far as he could judge, within some three feet of his head, followed by a second "ping," and a cloud of dust beneath the belly of the first horse. The two Boers were firing at him.
Ping Erh, who stood by, exhorted her to obey; but she at the same time impressed on her mind to speak out without delay. "Mr. Secundus himself arrived only a few minutes back," the maid began. "The moment, however, he came, he opened a bog, and, taking two pieces of silver, two hairpins, and a couple of rolls of silk, he bade me stealthily take them to Pao Erh's wife and tell her to come in.
We were at Yokohama when your last letters came and they were a great pleasure. I got splendid news of The Dictator. Yesterday we all went to Yokohama. There are four wild American boys here just out of Harvard who started the cry of "Ping Yang" for the "Ping Yannigans" they being the "Yannigans." They help to make things very lively and are affectionately regarded by all classes.
But the bull had a terrible surprise. He heard the sharp ping of a rifle and a fearful yell. Then he saw a figure capering in wild gyrations, and thinking that this human being whom he had learned to trust must have gone mad, he forgot to be angry, but was very much frightened.
But whether this was actually so or not, there could be no doubt about the soldiery. They were ch'in ping, or body-guard troops, in sky-blue tunics, and this retirement was the most significant of all. There was now not a shadow of doubt.
Sometimes he comes over, secretly, by night, to see his mother, and lies hidden in her house till the sok is full of market people in the middle of the day, when he can go out into the crowd without running great risk, though in the sok a quarrel sometimes arises; in a flash, guns are up at men's shoulders bang bang and bullets ping into the soft walls, if not into some one or other.
"In a hurry to be a-goin'? I'll allow you'll see some slim red devils, with feathers in their hair, slipping among the trees along the bank, and mebbe you'll hear the ping which's made when whistlin' lead hits. Perhaps you'll want to be back here by termorrer sundown." "Not I," said Joe, with his short, cool laugh.
The guide paused to lift the bucket that Ping had fetched, and to drink deeply from it. "Who's been here?" "What makes you think anyone has?" teased Emma. "Plain as daylight. I followed a pony's trail in for more than two miles. There's the tracks where he went away," answered the guide quickly. "You surely have sharp eyes," nodded Elfreda.
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