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The "vigilantes" drew hastily out of the road and scudded out of sight down a gully as the creams lunged down the steep grade and across the shallow creek bed.
Indeed if we had not had a good crew, our ship, being old, might have suffered severely. In selecting this ship, in addition to accommodations, I only took into account her build; and so far was not disappointed, for when she could carry sail, she scudded along in gallant style; but with ships as with horses, the more they have done, the less they have to do.
The noise of the beaters approached nearer and nearer, and presently two splendid bucks with beautiful antlers rushed from the jungle about two hundred yards from me, and scudded over the plain. I slipped the greyhounds, and away they went in full fly, bounding over the soft turf in grand style. Mounting old Jack, who was standing at my elbow, and giving him the spur, I rode after them.
And, soon after this, she resisted all his attempts to detain her, and scudded back to the house, leaving Bassett to his reflections, which were exceedingly bitter. Sir Charles got better, and at last used to walk daily with Lady Bassett. Their favorite stroll was up and down the lawn, close under the boundary wall he had built to shut out "The Heir's Walk."
"I'd clean the blighters out mighty quick!" But now Beatrice was pointing, with a cry of dismay, down, away at the bungalow itself, which had for a moment become visible at the far end of the clearing as the Pauillac scudded past. Even as Stern thought: "Odd, but they're not afraid of us a flying-machine means nothing to them, does not terrify them as it would human savages.
All about the flitting target the smokeballs burst above it, below it, to this side of it and to that. They polka-dotted the heavens in the area through which the Frenchman scudded. They looked like a bed of white water lilies and he like a black dragonfly skimming among the lilies. It was a pretty sight and as thrilling a one as I have ever seen.
Well, after a time, although we never saw them rise, three Mother Carey's chickens were seen dipping and flying about astern of the schooner; and they told old Etau, who said, `You'll have wind and plenty and plenty of waves to make up for the calm; and so they had, sure enough, for it came on almost a hurricane, and the schooner scudded before it under bare poles until she arrived at Antigua, with her bulwarks washed away, and a complete wreck.
Levin was frightened too; the more that he saw the stronger man's fear. As they dashed across the camp-ground the wild-geese took alarm, and, some running, some flying, scudded towards the Sound. A voice from the pulpit cried after the retreating men, but only to increase their fears, and when they leaped on board the Ellenora, Joe Johnson was livid with terror.
Oh! there is such a great unanimity among these dumb creatures of the night and darkness. The wind blew gloomy-looking clouds before it across the sky, clouds which hastened away from that district; which jostled one another as they scudded along, some high, some low, and kept on changing their shapes as if they feared lest something might catch them there.
"We'd better toddle," agreed the cattleman. "Go ahead." I scudded for safety, Yeager at my heels. We reached the door of the saloon just as the captain did. "Let us in. Captain Blythe and friends," I cried, hammering on a panel. Some one unlocked the door. It was Dugan. "You here?" I exclaimed. "Yes, sir. I heard the shooting and came up just in time to lock the door on Mack.
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