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Unless Levi locked the shop, when he went home at noon to dinner, there was always the chance of a raid with a strick or two possibly missing as proof of success. Sabina had told Abel that he must keep away from the works, but he ignored her direction and often revolved about them at moments of liberty.
"The letters 'S. S. G. G. stand for Strick, Stein, Gras, Gruen: Strick meaning, it is said, the rope which hangs you; Stein, the stone at the head of your grave, and Gras, Gruen, the green grass covering it."
"I remember him. The little fellow I wrote a story about," I said. "Is he in the Service?" "No. Strick got him into the Centro-Euro-Africa Protectorate. He's Assistant-Commissioner at Dupe wherever that is. Somaliland, ain't it, Stalky?" asked the Infant. Stalky puffed out his nostrils scornfully. "You're only three thousand miles out. Look at the atlas."
"Instead of which, bless your 'art, he beats the young man off with a stick, like as if he was a mad dog; and young Miss is a goin' to be sent to furrin parts to a strick boardin' school, to learn her not to have any truck with young chaps." "'Ard, I call it," said Mrs. James. "An' well you may crooil 'ard.
He's tuk right off toward Duckcedars' for so Tom ever calls Truxedo Pond a lovely crescent-shaped lakelet deep in the bosom of the Greenwoods 'so off with you, Jem, down by the road, as hard as you can strick with ten of your boys in sleighs, and half the hounds; and if you find his tracks acrost the road, don't wait for us, but stick right arter him.
In his swift hand each strick flashed out from the rough hank with great rapidity, and every crafty, final touch on the teeth made it brighter. Giving a last flick or two over the small pins, Mr.
'Tarnal death to me, sodger, it turned me wrong side out! and while I war axing all natur' how I war to get over, what should I do but see the old sugar-trough floating in the bushes, I seed her in a strick of lightning. So pops I in, and paddles I down, till I comes to the rocks, and ar'n't they beauties?
Bending low, he answered in the abject, fawning whine that confounds right and wrong more surely even than most modern creeds, "Protector of the Poor, is the police service shut to an honest man?" "Out!" cried Strickland, and swiftly as the groom departed he must have heard our shout of laughter behind him. "If you dismiss that man, Strick, I shall engage him. He's a genius," I said.
But almost immediately his charger struck the ground; and Roland, to his inexpressible joy, found himself landed upon a projecting bank, on which the current had already swept the canoe, with its precious freight, unharmed. "If that ar'n't equal to coming down a strick of lightning," cried Roaring Ralph, as he helped the soldier from the water, "thar's no legs to a jumping bull-frog!
When they heard the noise which followed the blow, though not exactly knowing what had happened, they became frightened, and began to think something terrible was being done. "Go in, Terry, avich," whispered the woman, "Knock, man, and go in shure he's murdhering her!" "What 'ud he do to me thin, av' he'd strick a woman, and she his own flesh and blood!
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