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Then Stanley's twenty men came out of their hiding-place, the fight was short, and the savages dashed headlong into their boats and rowed away for their lives. The next morning, with thirty men on board his boat, Stanley began his journey down the river, while Tippu Tib and Pocock marched with all the rest of the troop along the bank.
"Ey needna be afeerd o' owt happenin to ye, mother," said Jem, patting the cat's back. "Tib win tay care on yo." "Eigh, eigh," replied Elizabeth, bending down to pat him, "he's a trusty cat." But the ill-tempered animal would not be propitiated, but erected his back, and menaced her with his claws. "Yo han offended him, mother," said Jem. "One word efore ey start.
"Ah," he said, shaking his head, "there are two to be reckoned with. It is not me alone. Tib has to be considered, and she has a very queer temper." "Who?" "Why, this mare. I fancy she looked round at me in a very grim way just then. Didn't you notice it?" "Don't try to frighten me, sir," said Tess stiffly. "Well, I don't.
He invariably waited until the white man reached the limit of his resources and then exacted the highest price, in true Shylockian fashion. According to Herbert Ward, the well-known African artist and explorer, who accompanied Stanley on the Emin Pasha Relief Expedition, Tippo Tib was something of a philosopher. On one occasion Ward spent the evening with the old Arab.
"Why ever did he make off like that?" There was no one to answer except Tib, who had jumped up into a tree and looked down at her with the most complete indifference. "Anyway, he means to be kind," concluded Lilac, "and it's a shame to flout him as they do, so it is." "Who is the honest man?
Good-by, old onion! I am going to Tib." But Gammer Gurton whirled up out of her elbow-chair like a top, and was upon Hodge, whom she held by the coat-tail, and brought him to a stand. "You dare go to Tib again!
She introduced his cat "Tib" into a portrait taken in his Chelsea garden. Among her most ambitious works are the "Young Customers," the "Old Men's Garden, Chelsea Hospital," the "Lady of the Manor," "Confidences," "London Flowers," and others of kindred motives. The "Young Customers," water-color, was exhibited at Paris in 1878.
The children are simple and guileless thus far, it may be. I dare be sworn that she is, but they wot not where they will be led on." "You are right, dame; you know best, no doubt," said Tib, in helpless perplexity. "I wot nothing of such gear. What would you do?" "Have the maid wedded at once, ere any harm come of it," returned Perronel promptly.
Thus, for example, I know a certain John Heywood, who can mimic exactly the voice of a certain little miss named Tib, and who knows how to warble as she herself: 'Hodge, my dear Hodge!" And he repeated to them exactly, and with the same tone and expression, the words that the voice had previously cried.
There's no ane in Bewcastle would do the like o' that now we be a' true folk now." "Ay, Tib, that will be when the deil's blind, and his een's no sair yet. "Hae ye been in Dumfries and Galloway?" said the old dame, who sat smoking by the fireside, and who had not yet spoken a word. "Troth have I, gudewife, and a weary round I've had o't." "Then ye'll maybe ken a place they ca' Ellangowan?
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