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And you see Venus, grown old and toothless, snoozing amid the debris of another day. Then the Chinamen begin. Lights twinkle. Clean-looking interiors and carefully washed store windows. Roofs have been hammered back in place, stairways nailed together again. The sagging walls and lopsided cottages have taken a new lease on life.
There aren't any dogs to run out and bark at you. Old Maje and Tige, and even little Bounce and Guess are snoozing behind the kitchen stove.
He had sunk back in the armchair and his eyes were fixed on the warm-hearth, where the tiny dog, Charlie, whom he had rescued, and who in turn had rescued him, was curled up and snoozing peacefully.
I see a deal too much of it; while you fellows are snoozing in bed, I'm turning out filthy liquor shops, drug stores, tea houses, and stopping Chinese fights, smuggling and murder." "Yes, we know all that," rejoined Roscoe; "you look into the dark, Shafto and I see the bright side of this country."
As the day wore on, the Yankee lad remained as inconspicuous as possible, and began to think that he was safe. About mid-afternoon, however, a gang of buccaneers, working at the rent in the bows which still gave trouble, shouted for a bucket of drinking water. Bob had been snoozing in the shade of the sail, and when he was roused at last, took his own time in carrying out the order.
Seeing that Tom Jerrold was the culprit, however, he soon quieted down, being an arrant sneak and afraid of him. "What did you do that for?" he whined. "I was only having a nap." "You're always napping," retorted Tom; "and I should like to know what the dickens you mean by going snoozing in my bunk? I've half a mind to punch your head.
I also observed on the poop the Reverend Mr Smythe and "Joe" Jellaby, who had contrived to secure sufficient snoozing, during the odd moments when he was off duty since the morning, to make up for the sleep he had lost by going to the admiral's ball and there meeting the witching houri of his dreams, "that chawming gurl," who had subsequently prevented him from taking his proper rest when he came aboard in the small hours of the middle watch.
Toward afternoon, he strolled back to their abode; where he tarried till the next morning, smoking and snoozing, and, at times, prating about the hapless fortunes of the House of Tonoi. But like any other easy-going old dotard, he seemed for the most part perfectly content with cheerful board and lodging. On the whole, the valley of Martair was the quietest place imaginable.
Nobody questioned him as he passed the barrier at a dog-trot. Then he approached a snoozing stevedore. "Where's Mike's?" "Lead y' there, ol' scout!" "No; tell me where it is. Here's a shilling." Explicit directions followed; and away went Thomas at a dog-trot again: the lust to punish, maim or kill in his heart.
'Hello! I replied, still half asleep, and anxious to hide from the minister that I was trying to gain a few more moments of snoozing delight, 'what's abroad?. 'The devil, he answered shortly, and with such emphasis that I sat bolt upright, looking anxiously about. 'Oh! no need for alarm. He's not after you particularly at least not to-day, said Craig, with a shadow of a smile.
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