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"When he has been waiting for his sweetheart about a quarter of an hour I will call his name in a woman's voice, and at his first step towards the desert do you break his neck with the sand-bag. We have plenty of time yet, for it must still be a good half hour before midnight." "So much the better," said the other.
They had wrought for many days in the erection of sand-bag defences, in the digging of trenches, in the drilling of Baraland Irregulars and Rifle Volunteers and the newly-enrolled Town Guard. This was the pleasant social time of lull before the storm, and they were not to get many more good dinners or peaceful nights in bed for a long siege to come.
I know what's the matter with me, and what I want is a chance to get square." "There is no evidence of any injury," said the physician. "There never is in a case of this kind," rejoined Nick. "A sand-bag doesn't leave any mark. That's why it is so popular." "It is impossible to convince a stubborn man," said the colonel. "I should think that this experience would have been enough."
The men are supposed to be ever ready for an attack, but if they require drums and cannon to awaken them in a garrison, how can they possibly hear the stealthy step of an Indian here? It is foolish to expect anything so unreasonable. CIMARRON REDOUBT, KANSAS, January, 1873. FANCY our having given a dinner party at this sand-bag castle on the plains, miles and miles from a white man or woman!
Indeed, it was claimed that he let a cannon-ball drop when he ought to have caught it, and it was not disputed that he had been ingloriously knocked over by a sand-bag projected by the strong arms of the young maiden. This was of course a story that was widely told and laughingly listened to, and the captain of the University crew had become a little sensitive on the subject.
Have no fear. This act is going to be a scream from start to finish." Master Maloney raised his eyes for a moment from his book as Psmith re-entered the office. "Dere's a guy in dere waitin' ter see youse," he said briefly, jerking his head in the direction of the inner room. "A guy waiting to see me, Comrade Maloney? With or without a sand-bag?"
Humility was stooping to wedge a sand-bag under the door. She looked up at Taffy with a wan little smile. "There has been a wreck," she said. "Glory be!" exclaimed the stranger from the fire-place. Taffy glanced at him, but could see little more than the back of a bald head above the blankets. "Where's the ship?" he asked.
Put the mixture into the back shells of the crabs, and serve it up. Garnish with the small claws laid nicely round. These crabs must be cooked directly, as they will not keep till next day. Remove the spongy substance from each side of the crab, and also the little sand-bag. Put some lard into a pan, and when it is boiling hot, fry the crabs in it.
The assassin's sand-bag had missed the exact spot on the nape of the neck, and Serapion's strongly-knit backbone would have been able to resist even a stronger blow. The conviction that he was attacked by robbers flashed on his consciousness as immediately as the sense of pain, and with it the certainty that he was a lost man if he did not defend himself stoutly.
I told him that the dump was too far back, but that, if he liked, I would go and live with Padre Monty in the Eski Line. So a few days before Christmas I arrived with my batman and my kit at Monty's tiny sand-bag dug-out. He gave me a joyous welcome, stating that he would order the maids to light the fire in the best bedroom and air the sheets. Meanwhile, would I step into his study?
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