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You kamerad wot?" "Kamerad!" the man echoed with an accent of contempt. "I am no German I am French. I have come through the Boche lines to-night with important information which I desire to communicate forthwith to your commanding officer." "Strike me!" his catechist breathed, skeptical. There was a new sound of splashing in the trench. A third voice chimed in: "'Ello? Wot's all the row abaht?"
I'm late!" And he turned away to the house. Marie Ivanovna herself spoke to me of Semyonov. She found me alone waiting for my morning tea. We were before the others, and could hear, in the next room, Molozov splashing water about the floor and crying to Michail, his servant, to pour "Yestsho! Yestsho!" "Yestsho! Yestsho!" "Still more! Still more," over his head.
Mistress Nutter pays little heed to him, but ever and anon looks back, as if in dread of some one behind her. But no one is visible, and she only sees the great black cloud still hovering over Pendle Hill. On on they go; their horses' hoofs now splashing through the wet sod, now beating upon the firm but elastic turf.
"It's Hibbert," was the reply from the darkness. Then two figures came tramping through the rain, over the soggy ground, next splashing into the tent, the flaps of which Dick and Harry held aside. As they came in Mr. "Well," he demanded impatiently. "What did you learn?" "I guess the boy is yours, Mr. "Bill Mosher told us a pretty straight story.
Later, when he was by the fire and she had done skillful work with water and cotton cloth, and the pain would let him, he looked at her again. "You an' mother ain't no more alike than a black an' a maltee," he said. "Hullo! what you cryin' for?" The tears were splashing her swift hands. "I dunno," she answered shortly. "Yes, I do, too. You speak some like Willard."
No, there she comes; it's the first salmon run, and they're all hungry for fish." They watched the bears until at last they disappeared in the brush which lined the creek on the farther side. Rob kept his eye intently fixed on the place where they had disappeared, but made no motion to leave the hut until finally all three of the bears once more appeared, this time splashing across the creek.
Immediately there was a scream and a roar, and a splashing about of skirts and petticoats, and by the time that Mrs. Fenwick was on the bank, Mary Lowther had extricated herself, and had triumphantly brought out Flo's treasure with her. "Mary, are you hurt?" said her friend. "What should hurt me? Oh dear, oh dear! I never fell into a river before. My darling Flo, don't be unhappy.
I knew that it swarmed with alligators, and felt an uncomfortable thrill as I went in head foremost; but I knew also that I was a strong and swift swimmer, so I struck out for my life to the opposite bank, which was not more than forty yards off. I splashed as much as I could, for you know, senhor, that splashing tends to keep alligators off, though it is not always successful.
He felt sick and faint and shaken, but he would not give up. He half-stumbled, half-staggered along, splashing through little pools of rain held in depressions of the stone sidewalk, supporting himself on anything that offered, hoping, if this were indeed the end, that he might crawl away into some dark and secluded corner of the city, to hide the humiliating ignominy of it all.
The pupil should count the movements and be deliberate while doing the strokes. Splashing and fast strokes always denote an indifferent swimmer. Easy and graceful swimming can only be acquired by taking slow strokes and keeping the hands under the surface, thereby obviating all tendency of pushing the arms through the air instead of the water.
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