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Updated: May 27, 2025
Sorry I killed him, but if I had not he would have killed me and then, perhaps, some of the women, for they had not got far away, and I don't know how far the spouter can send its little arrows. I wonder if they are little. They must be surely, for I've never seen one. Hoi! hoi! what fools men are to kill one another! How much better to let each other alone!
It sounds prosaic, but I believe it is a fact that the first stirring of my pulses was caused by the report of a speech of his which I read in the Times. It was on the Eight Hours' Bill. Papa was most unflattering. He said that he was an oily spouter, an ignorant agitator, an irresponsible firebrand, and a good deal more to the same effect.
You know his people are not used to laugh. They are very grave, but this one laughed till I became angry, and I would have fought with him, but " "Ay," interrupted Anteek, "but you were afraid, for he had the spouter." Before Gartok could reply Mangivik broke in. "Boo!" he exclaimed contemptuously, "it is of no use your talking so much.
It grew denser as he came nearer. He found Bob Hart, in oilskins and rubber boots, bossing a gang of scrapers, giving directions to a second one building a dam across a draw, and supervising a third group engaged in siphoning crude oil from one sump to another. From head to foot Hart and his assistants were wet to the skin with the black crude oil. "'Lo, Dave! One sure-enough little spouter!"
The study of basaltic pillars at once begins: Loo Fort is partly built upon them. As a rule the columns are quadrangular; I saw but few pentagons and hexagons. We cast a look at a spouter of circular shape, the Forja, and the Forno, a funnel-formed blowing-rock.
We were determined to show the "spouter" how things could be done in a smart ship, with a good crew, though not more than half their number.
Yet Dives himself, he too lives like a Czar in an ice palace made of frozen sighs, and being a president of a temperance society, he only drinks the tepid tears of orphans. But no more of this blubbering now, we are going a-whaling, and there is plenty of that yet to come. Let us scrape the ice from our frosted feet, and see what sort of a place this "Spouter" may be. The Spouter-Inn.
Then I rushed upon him and caught hold of it before it could spout. We wrestled but he was a very strong man, and I could not overcome him and he could not overcome me. Our breath came short. The sweat poured down our faces and our eyes glared; but when we looked steadily into each other's eyes we saw that we were both men of peace. We let our bodies go soft, and dropped the spouter on the ground.
A still younger bull, anxious, perchance, to win its spurs, took advantage of the situation, and made a dash at the opposite side, but Nootka sent about two feet of her paddle down its throat, which induced it to reconsider its intentions. Just then a loud report told that the spouter was again to the front. This time the ball took effect on the old bull's forehead, and remained there.
But not a wooden-headed man-at-arms but looked down upon him. Every gallery boy who pays a shilling to laugh at me regards himself as my intellectual superior; while to a fourth-rate spouter of blank verse he looks up in admiration." "Does it so very much matter," suggested Dan, "how the wooden-headed man-at-arms or the shilling gallery boy happens to regard you?"
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