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I rather liked it, for I was proud of my skill, and tried to believe that I was as tough as the timber I mauled, though this and other heavy jobs stopped my growth and earned for me the title "Runt of the family."
The Bird boys, of course, had many friends among the lads of Bloomsbury; but only two who were close enough to be admitted freely to the workshop on the grounds of Frank's father's place, where the young inventors worked out many of their lofty ideas. These were Larry Geohegan, and a small runt who had been called "Elephant" by his companions in a spirit of sport, and could not shake the name.
'Well, who d'ye think I see to-day but th' Sultan. I tell ye I did. What is he like? He ain't much to look at a skinny little man, Osman, that ye cud sthrangle between ye'er thumb an' forefinger. He had a bad cold an' was sneezin'. He wore a hand-me-down coat. He has a wen on th' back iv his neck an' he's crosseyed. Here's a pitcher iv him. 'What, that little runt?
We'll get under way and eat somewhere along the road, if you don't mind. What about that mechanic? Has he shown up yet?" Cliff's boredom was gone, along with his swagger stick. "Naw. I guess the little runt went on a spree. I thought he'd be here when I got back, but he wasn't, and the clerk said nobody had called for me except you." "All the better.
Cowperwood, who had looked up, shocked and disturbed by the man's disheveled appearance, had called back, quite without stopping to think: "Naw, I can't." "Look out you don't get locked up yourself sometime, you little runt," the man had replied, savagely, only half recovered from his debauch of the day before.
Soaker, who made her old chin go, For hours, hobnobbing with Mrs. Syringo: Had Tib staid at home, I b'lieve none would have miss'd her, Or pretty Peg Runt, with her tight little sister," &c. &c. Towards the close of the year 1771, the elder Mr.
The runt is a bird of great size, with long, massive beak and large feet; some of the sub-breeds of runts have very long necks, others very long wings and tails, others singularly short tails. The barb is allied to the carrier, but, instead of a very long beak, has a very short and very broad one.
The mair 's the peety he sud hae hed the milk o' an honest wuman upo' the tap o' that!" "But what cud the auld runt be efter? What was her business wi' 't? She never did onything for the bairn." "Na, no she! She never had the chance, guid or ill Ow! doobtless it wad be anent what they ca' the eedentryfeein' o' im to the leddy o' Gersefell. She had sent her. But she made little o' me."
Within twenty minutes even the runt had learned, and a merry time they had scrambling after the delicious eggs as their mother broke open more ant-galleries, and sent them and their contents rolling down the bank, till every little partridge had so crammed his little crop that he was positively misshapen and could eat no more.
To Canby he declared with a face that was unsmiling and solemn: "I 'low I got my share of nerve when it comes to a show-down, and I ain' no skim-milk runt, neither, but that nester he's a giant and hos-tile as they make 'em! He had me lookin' at my hole card from the outset." "Are you afraid of him?" Canby demanded, incredulously.
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