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This sort of hunting doesn't amount to anything," grumbled Snap. "If we hadn't run across those turkeys we should have been skunked." "Let us go a little further," answered Shep. "Here are two trails. Supposing I take the one over the hill and you the one nearest to the lake. If we don't see anything we can come back here." So it was agreed, and a minute later they separated.
Gibb Ogle explains to the one hundred and eleventh knot of people how he was going past the place when he saw the tongue of flame, and every one disperses after a pleasant social time. Everybody is tolerably well satisfied except the hook-and-ladder gang, which, as usual, is skunked again never got a ladder out.
"Why didn't ye?" said Aunt Polly, whose feelings about the deacon were undergoing a revulsion. "Wa'al, to tell ye the truth, I was so completely skunked that I hadn't a word to say. I got rid o' the thing fer what it was wuth fer hide an' taller, an' stid of squealin' 'round the way you say he's doin', like a stuck pig, I kep' my tongue between my teeth an' laid to git even some time."
"Skunked," remarked Morris cheerfully. Gerald said nothing, did not even look; but Bobby liked Morris's comment better than Gerald's assumed indifference. "Let's have another game partners," suggested Gerald to Celia. But Bobby, to his own great surprise, found courage to speak up. "Let's not play croquet any more," said he. "Let's have a game of Hi-Spy."
His voice was quite unemotional as he said: "And how are you going to get me away from here?" "That's MY look out, and needn't trouble you, major; but, seein' as how confidential you've been to me, I don't mind tellin' you. Last night that posse of mine that you 'skunked, you know, halted at the cross roads till them sojers went by. They has only to SEE THEM to know that I had got away.
Nos omnes biberimus viridum toxicum diabolus capiat posterioria nostria. Closingtime, gents. Eh? Rome boose for the Bloom toff. I hear you say onions? Bloo? Cadges ads. Photo's papli, by all that's gorgeous. Play low, pardner. Slide. Bonsoir la compagnie. And snares of the poxfiend. Where's the buck and Namby Amby? Skunked? Leg bail. Aweel, ye maun e'en gang yer gates. Checkmate. King to tower.
How the newspaper men did scribble scribble scribble! Next day there was a paragraph in all the papers: "WONDERFUL FEAT OF A JACKRABBIT. The Little Warhorse, as he has been styled, completely skunked two of the most famous Dogs on the turf," etc. There was a fierce wrangle among the dog-men.
"We must get at least one of 'em by all means," said Shep. "It won't do to go back to the camp skunked." "We shan't be skunked," answered Whopper, confidantly. "If there are a dozen, we'll bag the lot of them!" The trail was by no means as easy as they had anticipated, and they had to pick their way around the rocks and through the brushwood with care.
You won't see him again till spring. Skunked him once, and beat him twice." "Oh, git out." "Hear the old seed twitter!" "Did you ever notice, gentlemen, how lying and baldness go together?" queried Foster, reflectively. "No! Do they?" "Invariably. I've known many colossal liars, and they were all as bald as apples." "Come, Colonel, marshal your forces a little more promptly.
They tried to get some fish, but were unsuccessful. "We are skunked, and no mistake," said Snap dolefully. "Not even one fish or a rabbit for supper!" "I am going to beat around the trees for something," said the doctor's son. "Shoot at anything that flies." He walked ahead, and the others kept their guns in readiness. But all he stirred up were a few small birds not worth laying low.
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