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"Fetch either of the twain to Bertragh, dead or alive, and you have the loan of twoscore men for three months, free. Is it a pact?" "It is a pact," answered Brian, and at that the other galloped back to his men. Brian swung his sword and flung it high into the air; before it had flashed down to nestle in his palm again, his men were scrambling into the road.
The latter, in his sleep more sensible to touch than hearing, was at length aroused. "Gorramity!" cried he, suddenly starting to his knees, and endeavouring to disembarrass himself of the weight of little William, still scrambling upon his back. "Gorramity! What all dis fracas 'bout? Someb'dy shout `Hurrah? Ha! you, lilly Willy? you shout dat jess now? I tink I hear ye in ma 'leep.
The challenge of the sentry at the old stone tower sounded unnecessarily sharp and loud, and his response of "Officer of the day" was lower than usual, as though rebuking the unseemly outcry. The guard came scrambling out and formed hurriedly to receive him, but the captain's inspection was of the briefest kind.
And as the children stood there looking at the most wonderful sight their eyes had ever seen, there was a soft padding of feet and a hurry-scurry behind them, and from the outside darkness beyond the flame-stalks came a crowd of little brown creatures running, jumping, scrambling, tumbling head over heels and on all fours, and some even walking on their heads.
"I 'm going, I ain't afraid; I 'll just hug him, and say I 'm ever so glad we are going to the little house," cried Maud, scrambling off the bed, and running down stairs. "Come with me, Polly, and tell me what to do," said Fanny, drawing her friend after her.
This movement threw him off his balance, and he slipped off the seat, clawing and scrambling; at the instant the front of the buckboard dipped and sank, disappearing with a splash into the muddy water.
Instantly they began scrambling for the nuts and candies that lay strewn over the floor. The last one was inside. Phil sprang to the rear of the cage and slammed the door shut, throwing the padlock in place and snapping it. "There are your old monkeys," he cried, turning to Mr. Sparling with flushed, triumphant face.
"I surely do," replied Uncle Teddy. "It was all I could do on the way over to keep from climbing over the back of the launch into the canoe and coming home in her." "I'm going to be bow paddler," cried Sahwah, hastily scrambling into the front seat and getting her paddle ready for action.
"After midnight the life-boat got alongside, and all hands were for scrambling aboard; but I'd got set in my notion the ship would live the gale out, and I wouldn't go aboard. Well, the old man was too scared to make long stories, and he tumbled aboard the life-boat in a hurry. The last words he said to me, as he went over the side, were, 'Good-bye, Mr. Cope!
"If they can't manage that piece of cliff, how would they scramble down into the cove?" "They haven't got tennis shoes on for one thing," remarked Merle, "and boots are horribly slippery. You ought to have rubber soles for these rocks. It just makes all the difference. Mavis and I always wear them at Chagmouth." "So do we. We learnt that at Porthkeverne. We're used to scrambling.
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