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James pointed out a spot just below the waterline, and the man, standing a yard or two away, fired at it, the ball making a hole through both sides of the boat. Another shot was fired two or three inches higher, and the four holes were then plugged up with oakum. All was now in readiness for the attempt.
"I guess the little brown men have got us good and plenty," he said, slowly, as he reached forward and shut off the power. "While we were playing about the blaze they plugged the river." "They can't get in here, anyway!" Frank consoled. "No; they'll wait for us to get good and hungry and go out!" Jack replied. The situation was a serious one.
All that, seven years ago, an' the thing is dune the day wi'oot a hair's-breadth difference. For why? Ye canna paint the lily, or improve upon perfection. Toch!... Colonel, that man would be worth the waitin' for, if he stood in your friend's shoes the day!" "Rejoice then, Major, and be exceeding glad, for I believe this is the man who wrote the book and plugged or was it plumbed the potentate."
Holes are drilled through each of the crank pins and main bearings, for half the diameter of the shaft, and these are plugged with pressed brass studs. Small holes, drilled through the crank cheeks, serve to convey lubricant from the main bearings to the crank pins.
For another hour they plugged along the trail with an increasing alertness, and wondering how soon the drill runner would turn off. At last he looked back and gestured to them. They understood. He slipped off the trail into the brush and began going slowly. Once he stopped to whisper to them to be cautious, inasmuch as within a few hundred yards they would reach their goal.
How brave he was and kind! How like him it was to get the water! Oh! if he'd only come. All this while Jake looked at her curiously; at length he said, "Say, Loo, s'pose he'd had his eye plugged out." "Go away do!" she exclaimed angrily. "I believe you boys jest love fightin' like dogs." Jake disappeared to tell and retell the tale to any one who cared to listen.
"Well, I am glad you drove them away," said Jack. "They might have done considerable damage. Still, it is likely that I would have seen the hole when I went to put the boat in the water unless they plugged it up with sand, which they might have done." "If any of our boys are doing things like this, which I would be very sorry to know," added Percival, "we are in a pretty bad way.
The crown prince still plugged away on this front with heavy artillery and aerial torpedoes.
As the boats cast off, atrocious witticisms flew back and forth between deck and shore all in good humor, of course, for such tradition would have it, and it was a test of brains, besides, to be able to say just the right word to those lanudos, those husbands whose eyes would be snugly plugged with wool, and come home in blessed ignorance of all their wives had been up to meanwhile!
He thinks he knows who shot me an' I've been lyin' somethin' scandalous. You see, if he learns then he'll go gunnin'. An', Miss Helen, thet Texan is bad. He might get plugged as I did an' there would be another man put off your side when the big trouble comes." "Roy, I promise you I will not tell Las Vegas," replied Helen, earnestly. "Wal, then it was Riggs!"
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