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"Have you and Tim been scrapping?" the captain asked. Don shook his head. "You fellows are in the same scout troop. Do you pull?" "N no." "What's the matter; did Tim want to be patrol leader?" Don nodded. Ted slapped his glove against his thigh and whistled thoughtfully. At the corner he paused. Don halted, too. "Look here," Ted said suddenly. "You know that Tim is a harum-scarum, don't you?"
Scott, rolled in his blanket, watched him with a twisted grin. "Some horse to take on a trip like this," he said. "A half-broke mule couldn't be worse. Funny if Doug don't gum the whole game for us, Charleton." "You go to hell, Scott!" grunted Douglas. Scott sat up with a jerk. Charleton spoke sharply. "No scrapping! You two get to sleep!" Scott lay down reluctantly.
The immense tenderness of the place sank into Babbitt, and he murmured, "I'd just like to sit here the rest of my life and whittle and sit. And never hear a typewriter. Or Stan Graff fussing in the 'phone. Or Rone and Ted scrapping. Just sit. Gosh!" He patted Paul's shoulder. "How does it strike you, old snoozer?" "Oh, it's darn good, Georgie. There's something sort of eternal about it."
Standish saw me scrapping with Green the other night and sent for me afterwards and told me to get fit. I'm going to have a shot at it, I think. Wouldn't you?" His friend tested the temperature of the water in his bath with his toe, and got in. "Yes, rather," he replied, and hesitated. "I'm going in for it too," he added. Harcourt rose and reached for his towel. "Are you, Billy?"
"Which is Jeffries?" asked Uncle Ike, as he filled his pipe, and looked over the two companions who had been scrapping. "He is Jeffries," said the visitor, "and I am Fitzsimmons, but I want to have another go at him, unless we leave it to arbitration," and the boy looked at the red-headed boy with blood in his eye, and at Uncle Ike with a look of no particular admiration.
We had to make quite a detour to get into the quarry, and by the time we reached there the other three tramps had got clean away. I was not sorry, to tell the truth. I thought the Professor had had enough scrapping for one twenty-four hours. Peg whinneyed loudly as she saw us coming, but Bock was not in sight. "What have you done with the dog, you swine?" said Mifflin.
The boy from Holyhead had been slow in coming with the papers, and the first news that came to them came from a man who had been into the town that morning. "There's going to be a war," he had shouted to the group of people sitting on the terrace. "Don't be an ass!" they had shouted back at him. "Yes, there is. The whole blooming world'll be scrapping presently!"
"They're scrapping about whether there is any wind," Charley explained. To a white man's senses there was no sign of wind; nevertheless the oars were run in, the cargo shifted, and the heavy mast, with infinite labour, stepped amidships and guyed. Hooliam looked on indifferently from the stern, idly swinging his great sweep back and forth. Finally a dirty square sail was raised.
She simply led him into the Circle and took his Order, and allowed him to sit there in the Gloaming and observe how Popular she was. All the men were Scrapping to see who would be Next to sit in the Hammock with her. It looked for a while as if Clara would have to give out Checks, the same as in a Barber Shop.
"We're a pair o' tourists, remember. You'll get all the scrapping you can handle when we get away from here. If you go after every white fellow you see slugging a coolie, we'll have no time to attend to our own business." "You're boss of the job; I'm dumb," grunted Barry. "All the same, I'd pass up Houten's proposition for the pleasure of pushing that chap's jib three inches further inboard.
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