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Then all three together started, for while fifty men came tearing headlong across the sandy level, making straight for the adjutant's quarters, Lilian, their little Lilian the silent, sad-eyed, anxious child of the days and days gone by heading everybody, was flying like a white-winged bird, straight along the line, and when the father reached her she had thrown herself upon a heap of burning, smouldering bedding, thrashing it with a wet blanket snatched from the olla, and then, with her own fair, white hands, was beating out the few sparks that remained about the sleeve and shoulder of a soaked and dishevelled gown, and brushing others from the hair and face of an unheroic, swathed and dripping figure Harold Willett in the midst of the wreck of his cot, while Blitz, the striker, aided by Wettstein and the doctor's man, were stamping and swearing and tearing things to bits in the effort to down other incipient blazes.
No, SUH! Ah stup right out in de middle of it, lightnin' strikin' all 'round an' de thunder so turrible Marse Kenneth an' ever'body ailse wuz awonderin' ef de good Lord could hear 'em prayin' fo' mercy. Yas, suh yas, SUH! Dat's de gospel trufe. An' me right out dere in dat ole barnyard doin' de chores fo' ole Mis' Striker.
But the visitor's duty toward the family does not end with their material needs, and, unless the man who replaces the striker is sure that the strike deserves to fail, he will have done an unmanly thing in betraying his natural allies. All question of the right of individual contract aside, he will have injured himself, he will be a meaner man and a less worthy head of a family.
He heard her murmur again: "Goodness gracious!" Eliza suddenly put an arm about her waist and drew the slender, shivering figure close. As the girl buried her face upon the older woman's shoulder, the latter cried out: "Land sakes, child, you'll never get over bein' a baby, will ye?" To which Phineas Striker added in a great voice: "Nor you, neither, Eliza.
The ladies have deserted us." Striker took the tobacco pouch from the peg on the mantel and handed it to his guest. "Fill up," he said shortly, and then walked over to the bedroom door. He rapped timorously on one of the thick boards. "Want me fer anything?" he inquired softly, as his wife opened the door an inch or two. "No. Go to bed when you're ready an' don't ferget to smother that fire."
The captain of the Gridley nine dropped to one knee, hands low, but he took the leather in -took it just the bare part of a second before the Waylander from third got there. For an instant the dazed crowd held its breath just long enough to hear the umpire announce. "Striker out! Out at home plate. Two out!" Then the tumult broke loose.
If you're a striker, strike, and if you're a bleater, bleat!" "Cry!" cries he, with a burst, "that's it strike! that's talking! Man, I've stood it all too long. But when they laid a hand upon the child, when the child's threatened" his momentary vigour whimpering off "my child, my Alexander!" and he was at his tears again. I took him by the shoulders and shook him.
A batsman, batter, or striker is the player who is taking his turn at bat. A base-runner is what the batter becomes instantly after having hit a fair ball, though for convenience of distinction he is often still called a batter until he has reached first base. A fielder is any one of the nine fielding players.
She seemed to be deliberately avoiding it. "It is a present comfort, at least, to believe him," he returned. "I hope I may not see the day when I shall have to take him to task for misleading me in so vital a matter." "I hope not," said she, quietly. As he turned to Striker, he caught that worthy gazing at him with a fixed, inquisitive stare. He began to feel annoyed and uncomfortable.
Striker, he held them up for her inspection, grinning from ear to ear. She gazed in astonishment at the white and silver ornamented tops, such as were affected by only the most fastidious dandies of the day and were so rarely seen in this raw, new land that the beholder could scarce believe her eyes.
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