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The struggle had lasted scarcely ten seconds, coming to its close just as Bradley finished blinding and deafening the robot. Costigan picked up the projector, again donned his spy-ray goggles, and the two hurried on. "Nice work, Chief it must be a gift to rough-house the way you do," Bradley exclaimed. "That's why you took the live one?" "Practice helps some, too!
Billy here's done come to live with Miss Minerva and she's done gone up town and don't care if we sprinkle, 'cause she's got so much 'ligion." "But you know none of us are allowed to use a hose," objected Lina. "But it's so much fun," said Jimmy; "and Miss Minerva she's so Christian she ain't going to raise much of a rough-house, and if she do we can run when we see her coming."
When he's in d' ring he can't be still a minute, can't let himself rest between rounds, see? He kinder beats himself, I guess." "I know what you mean," nodded Ravenslee, "and I'm sure you're right. By the way, have you ever seen M'Ginnis fight?" "I seen him scrap once or twice he's sure ugly in a rough-house, but in th' ring well, I dunno!" "Has he a punch?"
An eminent actress was interviewed and spoke of her new telephone play without adding much to the national stock of wisdom. A famous evangelist of the rough-house type proposed to use the new apparatus for reaching distant settlements. I don't think we took the news very seriously. We are, as I have said, inured to wonders and inclined to let science do her worst.
The other frats couldn't touch it. They might scratch him up a bit, but they lacked the ingenuity, the enthusiasm I might say the poetic temperament to make a good job of it. We determined to put on an initiation which would make our past efforts seem like the effort of an old ladies' home to start a rough-house. It was a great pleasure, I assure you, to plan that initiation.
One leg had been broken in the rough-house, but he tied it together with his handkerchief, now wet with blood. I wondered how he could think of taking a picture. His very deliberation set me fretting and fuming, and I swore at him under my breath. Still, he worked calmly ahead. I saw him take the black box and set it on the tripod. It was indistinct in the darkness.
"To-day," went on the ex-foreman stubbornly. "Big, raw-boned guy, hook nose, leather face, never took no prize as a lady's man, a wildcat in a rough-house, an' sudden death on the draw," extemporized the rustler, presumably from his conception of the reward poster. "I'll lie in the chaparral till night an' ride in after dark." With the impulsiveness of his kind, Shorty fell in with the idea.
Why, this is ABC." "All right. I'm listening. Spell it out for me." "Suppose the gang here is deep enough, as you think, to plan a little rough-house, ostensibly for my benefit, but really to get you into it and thus wipe you out. Doesn't it occur to you that my fading away to New York at the critical moment would rather knock the bottom out of the scheme? Why, it's as clear as noonday!
Now, I ask you, have the subalterns an excuse, or have they not, for a rough-house this night? It's their last night aboard, for to-morrow morning the smaller boats will come and carry them to the deadly Peninsula: and it's the evening that has brought the news of the Suvla landing.
"What you here for?" he demanded, as Soapy closed the door, "didn't send for you, did I?" "No, that's why I come, Bud." "But, say, Bud, what what's been th' matter?" stammered Spike, his gaze upon M'Ginnis's battered face, "who's been " "Matter? Nothin'! I had a bit of a rough-house as I come along " "'S right," nodded Soapy, "you sure look it! Never seen a fatter eye "
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