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No power was sufficient to make these mules step anywhere else. Each hole was full of muddy water. When the mule inserted his hoof, water spurted out violently as though from a squirt-gun. Walking was simply impossible. All this was merely adventure for the young, strong, and healthy; but the terrible part of the Panama Trail was the number of victims claimed by cholera and fever.
Morrison, considering what kind of a free gift you had handed to you, you've got to be careful about the position you take in these enlightened days when the people propose to profit from their own. It's mighty easy to shift public opinion these days!" "Yes, I have seen tons of sand shifted in no time by a stream from a squirt-gun," confessed Morrison, placidly.
There were various other articles of apparatus for performing philosophical experiments; such as a prism, a magnet, pipes for blowing soap bubbles, a syringe, or squirt-gun, as the boys called it, made of a reed, which may be said to be a philosophical instrument. Jonas made a collection of specimens of wood, which was, on the whole, very curious, as well as somewhat useful.
He's only four-flushin', and I ain't gun shy." "Now, look a yeah, sonny," he cried to Bud, "if that squirt-gun of yours goes off an' hits me, an' I find it out well, I reckon I'll have to spank you." Bud tried to break away from Polly, begging her to "Let go." The girl laid her hands on his shoulder, gazing pleadingly into his flushed face. "Don't, don't," she cried; "it's all right.
I don't expect to shoot an Indian." "I can shoot, too," said Grace quickly. "Walter taught me last year." "Mercy! what did you shoot with, Grace?" demanded Bess. "A squirt-gun?" "A pistol and Walter's rifle. I know I'm awfully scared of 'em, but I wanted to know which was the more dangerous end of a gun." "Bravo!" cried Nan, laughing.
She gave me a kiss then that told me something of what was in her heart, and went away into the house. "Goin' t' surround us," said Arv Law "thet 's whut 's th' matter." "Mus' be ready t' rassle 'em any minute," said Asher Eastman, as he sidled over to a little group. A young man came out of the house and took his place in line with a big squirt-gun and a pail of steaming-hot water.
Some day somebody will take a squirt-gun and a pint of insect powder and destroy these little, hairy caterpillars who infest all parts of Paris and make it impossible for a respectable woman to venture on the streets unaccompanied.
"Entre nous," he confided, "he has gone to Bonvilette to spray the sick roses of a friend with sulphate of iron he borrowed my squirt-gun yesterday." "And how far is it to Bonvilette?" "Eh ben! One must go by the little train to Nivelle," explained Monsieur le Maire, "and from Nivelle to Bonvilette there lies a good twenty kilometres for a horse. Let us say he will be back in three days."
This was repeated four times, and, the price of eggs having gone up a few cents in each interval, the little girl had sixty cents to put in her bank, which raised her total to one dollar fifty-nine. On her June birthday the family presented her with four dimes; the week after she sold a wooden squirt-gun to the neighbor woman's son for five cents.
"Thank you," said Quest with owlish condescension; "I'm indebted to you for calling 'tention to m-matters which 'volve honour of m' own club and " His voice rambled off into a mutter; he sat or rather fell into an armchair and lay there twitching and mumbling to himself and inspecting his automatic pistol with prominent watery eyes. "You'd better leave that squirt-gun with me," said Grandcourt.
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