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"I seen the buck whenst he fust kem sidlin' an' slippin' up ter the water, oneasy an' onsartain from the fust minute. I hed jes' sighted my rifle. An' hyar ye kem, a-bulgin' out o' the lau'l, an' sp'iled my shot." As the verisimilitude of his representations bore upon him, he unconsciously assumed the sentiments natural to the situation simulated.
Slippin' a bomb he dashed madly back to the ooter air-r sendin' his S. O. S. wi' baith hands thanks to his " He stopped and bit his lip thoughtfully. "Come, Tam!" smiled the officer, "that's a lame story for you." "Oh, ay," said Tam. "A'm no' in the recht speerit Hoo mony did we lose?" "Mr. Lasky and Mr. Brand," said the wing commander quietly. "Puir laddies," said Tam. He sniffed. "Mr.
"Nothin' doin'," he answered. "We're hard an' fast, I tell you, and I'll take no chances. It's you or both of you, but I'll not cast off this hawser. If you want to let go, cast the hawser off at your end." Sotto voce he remarked to Scraggs: "I see him slippin' a three hundred dollar hawser, eh, Scraggsy, old stick-in-the-mud?" "But I promised Flaherty I'd let you alone," pleaded Hicks.
I kent ye as sune as ye cam' slippin' ben the taivern. It'll fair kill the wife." "What are you talking about?" I said testily. "To think I wad live to see my ain minister slippin' by intil a taivern at sic a time o' nicht," he groaned despondingly.
"'I thought it 'ud be like that, says Butsy. 'You two always pick out the soft stuff fur yourselves 'n' hand me the lemons. I guess I'll just put my hoss back in the freight car 'n' be on my way. "'Now, Butsy, I says, 'have some sense! We ain't slippin' you nothin'. I'd take the dogs 'n' leave you 'n' Peewee ride if I knew the way.
"'Twere a rare pretty sight watchin' th' shore slippin' past, an' I forgets as 'tis a piece o' ice I'm ridin' till I happens t' look around an' finds th' cake o' ice, likewise myself, in th' middle o' th' river, an' no way o' gettin' ashore. The's nothin' t' do but hang on, an' I hangs. "Then I sees th' Gull Island Rapids an' I 'most loses my nerve.
We blowed with the belluses, 'n' we stuffed in paper 'n' pitch-pine kindlin's, but nothin' could make that fire burn; 'n' all the time the folks kep' comin', as if they'd never stop, 'n' nothin' for 'em but empty dishes, 'n' all the borrowed chaney slippin' round on the waiters 'n' chippin' 'n' crackin', I would n' go through what I been through t'-night for all th' money in th' Bank, I do believe it's harder t' have a party than t'"
"We must risk that," remarked I. "And now, as you happen to be here, there is nothing to detain us; we may, therefore, as well be moving. The sooner that we get this battery business over, the better." "Very well, sir, I'm quite ready," answered Hoard. "I suppose you didn't happen to think of slippin' a cutlash, or a pair of pistols, or anything into the boat for me, sir?" he continued.
Enraghty well, they call him Saint Paul, you know he told him to shut his mouth; and they got to jawin', and I heard a rattlin' of gravel, like it was slippin' down the bank, and then there was the Good Old Man in the water, hollerin' for help, and his hat off, floatin' down stream, and his hair all over his shoulders.
It's fiddling at a superstructure without a foundation. What we want is the common interest. Common interest, common taxation for defence, common representation, domestic management of domestic affairs, and you've got a working Empire." "Just as easy as slippin' off a log," remarked Horace Williams. "Common interest, yes," said his father; "common taxation, no, for defence or any other purpose.
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