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Updated: June 10, 2025
When he reached the deck and wheeled around to look at me you just ought to have seen his face. "'Are you the Captain? he says, and he looked me over 'bout as the admiral had done. "'I be, I said, 'Captain Robert Brandt, of Pigeon Cove, Cape Ann, master and owner of the sloop Screamer, at your service' I kep' front side to him. 'What can I do for you?
He backed out from the tunnel and stood upright once more. He heard the sound of people splashing round in water. The screamer began to jabber like a maniac, punctuating his ravings with shrieks. Another was cursing vehemently, and a third appealing to the saints. Lermontoff quickly knelt down in the watercourse, this time facing the upper cell, and struck his third match.
"Thee seeks it of the wrong person," said Nathan; "and I beg thee will get thee away," "What!" said Stackpole, "arn't thee the Pennsylvanny war-horse, the screamer of the meeting-house, the ba'r of Yea-Nay-and-Verily?" "I am a man of peace," said the submissive Slaughter.
Go it, you wild broncho! Say, look there, will you, Tony; Ralph West thinks he can tackle that flying tornado!" "Will he? Maybe, maybe not, fellows!" called out the ever-skeptical Jack Eastwick, as he watched the rapidly nearing figures. Jack was on the regular team, but not playing that afternoon. "There, he's done it! Wasn't that tackle a screamer, though?
The ape-man smiled a slow smile as he thought of the consternation which would follow the quick leap that would carry him among the females and into the full light of the fire. Then he would dart into the hut during the excitement, throttle the chief screamer, and be gone into the jungle before the blacks could gather their scattered nerves for an assault.
No dreamer Am I! No I think I frown When next I make a screamer In bed I will write it down. By the side of the bed a taper Shall ever with matches be, A pencil and piece of paper, To note what occurs to me. * Since then I have tried, but the late joke, As seen in my bedside scrawl, Is always so poor, that the great joke, I'm sure, was no joke at all!
Would if I hadn't knowed every stick o' timber in 'er and jest what she could stagger under." "But she was a good sea-boat," I interpolated. "The Screamer was always the pride of the work." "None better. You'd a-thought so if you'd been with us that night off Hatteras; we layin' to, hatches battened down. I never see it blow wuss.
"Well, I'm beginning to believe a little that way myself," admitted O. K. in his frank way, as Nick Lang knocked out a screamer that went far over the head of the center fielder. "That chap is a born batter. I reckon, now, he must be your best card in the pack." "Oh! we've got a few others who can meet the ball," advised Thad, proudly. "Watch that throwin', will you?
But Amy told her she would plant a daisy on the little mound, and it should be her own, and she should think of her bird whenever the flowers bloomed. And Charley promised to buy a bright yellow canary, if he could ever save money enough, and it should be "a regular screamer." She wanted Bertie to make the cage at once, but Bertie thought he could not make a cage good enough for a canary.
You will admire the horned screamer as a stately and majestic bird: he is almost the size of the turkey cock; on his head is a long slender horn, and each wing is armed with a strong, sharp, triangular spur, an inch long. Sometimes you will fall in with flocks of two or three hundred waracabas, or trumpeters, called so from the singular noise they produce.
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