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Major Thompson, who was in command of the armored-car detachment, instructed me to take all the tenders and go back as far as was necessary to find a petrol dump from which I could draw a thousand gallons. I emptied the trucks and loaded them with such of the wounded as could stand the jolting they were bound to receive because of the speed at which I must travel.
Health to the brave soldier, and peace to the household over which so fair a spirit presides! Dr. Thompson, the very active and intelligent surgical director of the hospitals of the place, took me in charge. He carried me to the house of a worthy and benevolent clergyman of the German Reformed Church, where I was to take tea and pass the night.
Harriet picked up a boulder on her way to the Slide, and, reaching there, sent it spinning with the wrist movement peculiar to bowlers. The boulder skipped some rods out into the pond far below them before it sank under the water and disappeared, leaving a white trail in its wake. "I can do that," declared Tommy Thompson.
"Grace," said Anne with decision, "it was intentional. I watched her every minute of the game, for I didn't trust her, and I saw her do it. I was so angry that when Miss Thompson asked how it happened I felt that I must tell, then and there. It was you who prevented me. I think such a trick should be exposed." "What a vengeful little Anne," said Grace.
Sam and Zeb had made a good beginning on the ploughing, the teams were doing well for green ones, and the men seemed to understand what good ploughing meant. Thompson and Johnson had spent parts of two days in the potato patches in deadly conflict with the bugs. "We've done for most of them this time," said Thompson, "but we'll have to go over the ground again by Monday."
"I suppose we had better go with you," said Mrs Crawley directly the door was opened; for of course she had seen the arrival of the fly from the window. "The gentleman had better come with us if he'll be so kind," said Thompson. "I've brought a close carriage for him." "But I may go with him?" said the wife, with frightened voice. "I may accompany my husband.
"Thompson," said I, "let us see if we cannot beat them from their guns. Let's port the helm and close her, till we can shy a biscuit on board." "Just my opinion, Simple; we'll see if they won't make another sort of running fight of it." In a few minutes we were so close on board of her, that the men who loaded the guns could touch each other with their rammers and sponges.
Kai-Koumou was the only one of all the chiefs that obeyed the call of William Thompson, who had returned to the lake district, and he was the first to announce to his tribe the defeat of the national insurrection, beaten on the plains of the lower Waikato. Of the two hundred warriors who, under his orders, hastened to the defence of the soil, one hundred and fifty were missing on his return.
"What do you mean by that?" he cried. "I mean," said Thompson firmly, "that I do not intend you shall get the advantage of me. You know my opinion of you and your gang. I shall not be shot by any of you, if I can help it." Crawford withdrew quietly, but later in the day approached a big group of us, one of which was Thompson. "There's a matter between you and me has got to be settled!" he cried.
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