United States or New Zealand ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Dan had hardly spoken when he espied a head coming up but thirty or forty feet away. It was the head of a Mexican soldier, evidently a spy. "Halt there!" cried Dan. "Come back here, or I'll fire!" It is doubtful if he would have fired on the swimmer, having no desire to open the war in person, but his threat had considerable effect. "No shoota me!" cried the Mexican. "No shoota!"
'We no finda water, said the leader; 'we looka two, tree day no finda, and too many nigger on shore shoota us all the time witha-bow-anda-arra. 'Well, you've got some guns there, I see. Couldn't you keep the niggers off while a couple of you filled the breaker? I asked. 'And there's plenty of water on Pentecost, I believe. He shrugged his shoulders. 'Of what-a good the gun?
"What's the use of our doing that?" said Barradas gloomily; "as long as they don't interfere with us again, we might as well leave them alone." The Greek snapped his jaws together like a shark, and then grinned. "I tella you the God's trutha. I would as soona shoota a kanaka as I would shoota a rat."
Word Of The Day