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As I toddled along, the beer slopped over the rim upon my legs. And as I toddled, I pondered. Beer was a very precious thing. Come to think of it, it must be wonderfully good. Else why was I never permitted to drink of it in the house? Other things kept from me by the grown-ups I had found good. Then this, too, was good. Trust the grown-ups. They knew. And, anyway, the pail was too full.
"Say next Wednesday, two hours after midnight." "Then that is settled. And now I'll square the old account agreed." He drew his check-book toward him again. But Henry slopped him. "Fair play's a jewel," said he smiling. "The moment you sacked me " "Say the Trades, not me." "Dr. Amboyne hired me, at six guineas a week, to inspect the works. So you owe me nothing; but to be true to me."
The rat that don't care nothing about fighting with anything but a law book." "A rat will fight when it's cornered," said Swing. Racey nodded. "I've seen 'em. It's something to know Luke carries a knife and where." "Where?" "Under his left arm. Fill up, and shove the bottle over." Swing filled abstractedly and slopped the table. He pushed the bottle toward Racey.
Corporal, follow me with your prisoner." He swung round and slopped off heavily through the mud of the open field. Behind them the sound of firing in the forward trenches swelled to an uproar augmented by the shrewish chattering of machine-guns. Then a battery hidden somewhere in the blackness in front of them came into action, barking viciously. Shells whined hungrily overhead.
That was the way I felt about Billy that grewsome night at this amusing play in an English theatre. I had on my best clothes, but after my handkerchief ceased to avail the tears slopped down on my satin gown, and the blisters will remain as a lasting tribute to the contagion of a company of English people out enjoying themselves.
He hurried the horses on, and they slopped through the water which, in places, flowed over the road, while in others it actually lifted the logs from their foundation and threatened to spoil the roadway entirely. Again and again they heard the faint cry, a man's voice. Tom stood up and sent a loud cry across the swamp in answer: "We're coming! Hold on!
They pulled slowly out to the end of the rocky promontory, upon which a ruined house still stands, and shot suddenly out into a howling wind. The first wave climbed leisurely over the weather-bow, and slopped aft to the ladies' feet; the second rose up, and smote the abbe in the back. "Cut them, mademoiselle; cut them!" shouted the boatman.
And there was a peculiarity about this rock chamber which consisted in the fact that the whole of its interior, from wall to wall, was occupied by a pool of water which brimmed to the level of the highest part of the upward sloping entrance passage nay, it did even more, for it occasionally slopped over and went trickling away in a tiny stream down the passage into the open, thus moistening the soil at the entrance and creating the mud in which Phil had detected the spoor of numerous different kinds of animals.
As Amelie had put all her towels, etc., down underground, I ran back and forward between my house and hers for all sorts of things, and, as they slopped until the road ran tiny rivulets, I had to change shoes and stockings twice. I was not conscious till afterward how funny it all was. I must have been a good deal like an excited duck, and Amelie like a hen with a duckling.
Then he returned to the customer and charged more than Joe had suggested. After a few weeks he slopped consulting Joe at all. "You're no good," he exclaimed, laughing. "What you're doing in business I don't know." The old harness maker stared at him for a minute and then went to his bench and to work. "Business," he muttered, "what do I know about business? I'm a harness maker, I am."
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