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"If my hand could close over a sword, I would split you open with it," he cried. The other men's slumbering pride awoke. Loyalty seldom took more than cat-naps in those days, in spite of all the hard work that was put upon her. "Duck him!" "Souse him!" "Dip him in the ocean!" they shouted.
But I kept my temper, and said civilly, 'Little gentleman, hard words break no bones; but if ever you molest Mrs. Somers again, I will carry you into her orchard, souse you into the duck-pond there, and call all the villagers to see you scramble out of it again; and I will do it now if you are not off.
Just as the clock is going to strike, souse! some Devil pours a wash-basin down on me, or I bolt against some fellow coming out, and get myself engaged in endless quarrels till the time is clean gone. "Ah! well-a-day! whither are ye fled, ye blissful dreams of coming fortune, when I proudly thought that here I might even reach the height of Privy Secretary?
"Darling, I love to have you sitting there, with your little feet tucked under you, while I work," said William enthusiastically. "I know," Susan agreed absently. "But don't you wish we didn't?" she resumed, after a moment. "Well, in a way I do," Billy answered, stooping to souse a fish in the stream beside which he was kneeling. "But there's the 'Protest' you know, there's a lot to do!
Tough needed no second invitation. He smelt warmth, rest, and there was the promise in his mind of a good "souse." For the time he had had enough of Unaga. He had had enough of his employer, Lorson Harris. He had had enough of snow and ice, and the merciless cold of the twilit trail.
But at the height of the campaign she was found in a pharmacy drinking a maple nut foam. After this her cause declined rapidly, and even her most ardent partisans admitted that she would never be more than an Intermittent Souse. The sagacious Quimbleton outmaneuvered them at every turn. Moderate drinkers rallied round Bleak.
"But the best sport of all was, when they came to the Lazy Corner, just at Jack Gallagher's flush,* where the water came out a good way acrass the road; being in such a flight, they either forgot or didn't know how to turn the angle properly, and plash went above thirty of them, coming down right on the top of one another, souse in the pool.
You get up in a tree for a few apples, with plenty of money to buy them if you like you are kept there by a dog you are nearly gored by a bull you are stung by the bees, and you tumble souse into a well, and are nearly killed a dozen times, and all for a few apples not worth twopence."
Then he came out and climbed the cedar stump, where he sniffed in every direction, as is his wont before lying down. Satisfied at last, he balanced himself carefully and gave a big jump Oh, so awkwardly! with legs out flat, and paws up, and mouth open as if he were laughing at himself. Down he came, souse, with a tremendous splash that sent mud and water flying in every direction.
"We'll souse the brandy all over him," said the Caterpillar; "and then no one can guess." "How about burnt feathers?" suggested Lovell. He had seen a fainting housemaid treated with this family restorative. Mrs. Puttick appeared with the brandy, which Lovell administered externally. Still, Scaife remained unconscious.
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