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That functionary, however, had not failed, during his circumgyratory movements, to bestow a thought upon the important subject of securing the packet in question, which was seen, upon inspection, to have fallen into the most proper hands, being actually addressed to himself and Professor Rub-a-dub, in their official capacities of President and Vice-President of the Rotterdam College of Astronomy.
Many men and women were passing to and fro, and Tommy, with a wild exultation in his breast, peered up at the face of this one and that; but no, they were only ordinary people, and he played rub-a-dub with his feet on the pavement, so furious was he with them for moving on as if nothing had happened.
Had I not known it, I would have risked a shot from you before allowing myself to be captured." From the belfry of the meetinghouse the bell was sending its peals far and wide over fields and woodlands. "Do you not hear it? The town is alarmed," said Revere. "Rub-a-dub-dub! rub-a-dub-dub! rub-a-dub, rub-a-dub, rub-a-dub-dub!" It was the drummer beating the long roll.
Webster, in one of his speeches in the Senate, called "the constant rub-a-dub of the press," "no drum-head," he says, "in the longest day's march, having been more incessantly beaten than the feeling of the public in certain parts of the North."
Don't you believe it, Miss Theo! You think you can do most things, but you won't bend us to that! Rub-a-dub on the dining-table hammered the furious boy's toes and heels, as he broke out into another hornpipe. 'Won't you come down, dears? again pleaded Theo as gently as before. 'Come to the tea-house, and tell me exactly what the trouble was from the very beginning, she said persuasively.
'Oh, thank you! said little Gerda, and then she went to the other flowers and looked into their cups and said, 'Do you know where Kay is? But each flower stood in the sun and dreamt its own dreams. Little Gerda heard many of these, but never anything about Kay. And what said the Tiger lilies? 'Do you hear the drum? rub-a-dub, it has only two notes, rub-a-dub, always the same.
She wanted to see the whole of that skin beaten, covered with contusions. And she talked, seized with a ferocious gaiety, recalling a washerwoman's song, "Bang! Bang! Margot at her tub. Bang! Bang! Beating rub-a-dub. Bang! Bang! Tries to wash her heart. Bang! Bang! Black with grief to part." And then she resumed, "That's for you, that's for your sister. That's for Lantier.
"David, it is appalling to hear you speak," said Mrs. Dolman. "Orion, I hate to pronounce your name, but listen to me, little boy. I forbid you to go if you are bent on theft." "But I must go," said Orion. "Poor Rub-a-Dub must be buried, and I must have a box for his coffin and cotton wool to lay him in." "See here, Orion," said the father; "where do you get the cotton wool?"
Poll has formed quite an acquaintance with most of the children of the neighborhood. At one time, there was a great excitement among the boys in regard to a company of soldiers they were forming. On Wednesday and Saturday afternoons, they marched up and down the street, past Mr. Lee's, beating a drum, and singing, "Rub-a-dub, dub! rub-a-dub, dub! Hurrah, hurrah!"
It was accordingly opened by those dignitaries upon the spot, and found to contain the following extraordinary, and indeed very serious, communications. To their Excellencies Von Underduk and Rub-a-dub, President and Vice-President of the States' College of Astronomers, in the city of Rotterdam.
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