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Robert had arranged a thoughtful little surprise for the absent servants. He had made a neat and delightful booby trap over the kitchen door, and as soon as they heard the front door click open and knew the servants had come back, all four children hid in the cupboard under the stairs and listened with delight to the entrance the tumble, the splash, the scuffle, and the remarks of the servants.
Knock down the fellows on deck, and rush into the forecastle and overpower them there, before they can get up their arms. I will summon the rest in a body, and we will overpower the officers." He ran back to the cabin door, and bade the men follow him. As they poured out there was a scuffle on the deck forward, and the officer shouted out again: "What is going on there? What does all this mean?"
Some of the seamen of the frigate had gone forward, in obedience to their officer, to lead the men selected into the boat; but they were immediately desired to keep back. The scuffle forward attracted the notice of the lieutenant, who immediately summoned all his men out of the boats. "Mutiny, by heavens! Come up, all of you, my lads."
The fishermen stood their ground like a wall, and the soldiers fell back. There was hardly any scuffle. "Governor," said Pete again, touching his cap. The Governor was twisting in his seat. Looking first at Pete, and then at the captain, he was in the act of lifting his hand when suddenly it was held by another hand at his side, and a low voice whispered at his ear, "No, sir; for God's sake, no!"
He soon met him carrying one oar, followed by a man with a broken one, so they were able to make shift in the boats to the camp, being overtaken on the way by Parea in his canoe bringing Vancouver's cap, which had been lost in the scuffle.
With knife upraised for instant action he moved closer and closer to me. He had almost reached me and paused to gloat as he poised the knife ready to strike, when I heard a shout from Kennedy, and a scuffle. Craig had leaped out from behind a screen near the doorway to the back room where he had hidden to lure Wu on.
Now it was, 'Fairy, you savage, let that pig alone! a yell and a scuffle 'Juno, drop it, you slut' or 'Cæsar, you blackguard, where are you going? 'Look at Sturk there, with his lordship, said Toole, to the fair Magnolia, with a wink and a nod, and a sneering grin. 'Good natured dog that ha! ha!
The reader cannot have forgotten that after his scuffle with the commonwealth soldier, Sir Henry Lee, with his daughter Alice, had departed to take refuge in the hut of the stout keeper Joceline Joliffe.
The cops weren't bribed, but their wives liked openin' the door of a mornin' an' findin' charmin' little surprises." "Ah," said Brink. "Then there were juke boxes," went on the detective. "He went in that business an' trouble started. People'd drive up to a beer joint, go in, get in a scuffle an' bingo! The juke box smashed. Always the juke box. Always a out-of-town customer.
Old lovers meet, touch hands in friendly scuffle for a fork, drink from the same jug, recline at noon and eat lunch in the shade of a friendly stack, and talk to heart's content, sweetening the labor of the long summer day. Of course this joyousness of the haying-time is not wholly monopolized by the Scotch.
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