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"'E 'asn't been near the place these two weeks and more," said the plump woman. "But who is he?" "I suppose I got to tell you," said the plump woman. "She says he scoots people," Mr. Polly remarked after a pause. "He's my own sister's son." The plump woman watched the crackling fire for a space. "I suppose I got to tell you," she repeated. She softened towards tears.
"I was first." "All right. I'm going to be the ferryman." "I see. You'll have to punt better." "You should have seen me early in the afternoon." "I can imagine it.... I've seen the others." "What others?" Mr. Polly had landed now and was fastening up the punt. "Whaim has scooted." "Scooted?" "He conies and scoots them. He'll scoot you too, I expect."
They was one thing in that house I always admired when I was a kid. And that was a big cistern. Most people has their cisterns outside their house, and they is a tin pipe takes all the rain water off the roof and scoots it into them. Ourn worked the same, but our cistern was right in under our kitchen floor, and they was a trap door with leather hinges opened into it right by the kitchen stove.
'Are ye Gairman heroes or just low-doon Austreens that ye fear ain wee bairdie? "'Lootenant, say they, 'yon feller is Tam o' the Scoots, the Brigand o' the Stars! "'Ech! he says. 'Gang oop, ain o' ye, an' ask the lad to coom doon an' tak' a soop wi' us we maun keep on the recht side o' Tam!"
Meanwhile the two men were skulking about among the trees, watching, yet not coming near, "at their usual work of waiting," as the Captain said. "Proper enough, too, let 'em wait. Waiting's their business. Now," taking off his tin and looking towards them, "what d'ye s'pose those anemiles want? Pity the boat hadn't tipped over before they got here. Camp's overrun now with just such scoots.
The boys are at a summer camp in the Adirondack woods, and Tom enters heart and soul into the work of making possible to other boys the opportunities in woodcraft and adventure of which he himself has already had a taste. Tom Slade on the River A carrier pigeon falls into the camp of the Bridgeboro Troop of Boy Scoots.
"'Resolvit, says the cheerman, 'that this meetin', duly an' truly assembled, passes a hairty vote o' thanks to Tam o' the Scoots, the Mageecian o' the Air-r, for the grand fight he made against a superior enemy Carried. "'Resolvit, says the cheerman, 'that we'll no' ta' onny more risk, but confine oor attentions to strafin' spotters " "Carried wi' acclaimation.
We sank into chairs and gazed about us in awe. No hotel had ever affected any of us like this before. At first we talked in whispers; then as our courage revived, we became critical. Then somebody thought of having a "Scoot"; tremulously he pressed the button for the waiter. The waiter came and they had two "Scoots" each. Then somebody made a funny remark and one of us laughed out loud.
Moon," said Pym with exquisite good temper, "probably regards the institution in a more antiquated manner. Probably he would make it stringent and uniform. He would treat divorce in some great soul of steel the divorce of a Julius Caesar or of a Salt Ring Robinson exactly as he would treat some no-account tramp or labourer who scoots from his wife. Science has views broader and more humane.
He ascertained that the fugitive certainly had not left by the railway or by any of the public conveyances; he sent scoots over all the neighbourhood: he enlisted the sympathy of the police, who confidently assured him that they had "a network over the three kingdoms." Rugge's suspicions were directed to Waife: he could collect, however, no evidence to confirm them.
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