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Charley hastened to join the sailors, and asked: "Are we going to make a port?" "Aye, lad," answered one of them good-naturedly. "What place is it?" asked Charley. "Pinch-In Tickle." "Will it be a long stop?" "Now I'm not knowin' how long or how short. We stop inside the Tickle to take on fish and gear. I'm thinkin' 'twill be a half hour's stop, or thereabouts." "May I go ashore in the boat?"
Pearson fired at a young bull and broke its leg, nevertheless it went off briskly on the remaining three, so I fired and shot off its tail. This appeared to tickle his fancy, for he turned at once and charged Pearson, who dropped his gun, sprang into a thorn-tree and clambered out of reach only just in time to escape the brute, which grazed his heel in passing. Poor fellow, he got such a fright "
Sez we, 'Ol' man, the labour? Sez he, 'It's binding wheat. Sez we, 'Ol' man, the figger? 'A dollar an' a ha'f the sum. Sez we, 'Ol' man, go an' tickle yerself, we'd a durned sight sooner bum!
Vain to ask how he had come to be mixed up with the lot, or why the stolidly conceited, pretentious fellow had seat here, as by right, beside him! We sow and we reap; 'plant for sugar and taste the cane, some one says this Woodseer, probably; he can, when it suits him, tickle the ears of the worldlings.
"You're giving me one forward section of 18-pounders there," began the brigadier, marking the map. "Now," placing a long lean forefinger on a point 150 yards behind our most advanced infantry post, "couldn't I have another little fellow there? that would tickle him up." The colonel smiled through his glasses.
By far the greater number of them, however, seem now pithless and pointless, whatever they may have been considered in ancient days, when, perhaps, folk found food for mirth in things which utterly fail to tickle our "sense of humour" in these double-distilled days.
When all movement subsides, the Pompilus makes ready to drag her prey elsewhere. It is then I take charge of it. What strikes me more than anything else is the absolute inertia of the fangs, which I tickle with a straw without succeeding in rousing them from their torpor. The palpi, on the other hand, their immediate neighbours, wave at the least touch.
'Now we're all here, and the boys are tired enough to sit still for a minute, I want to have a council. We said what about? And she said, 'I'll tell you. H. O., don't wriggle so; sit on my frock if the straws tickle your legs. You see he wears socks, and so he can never be quite as comfortable as anyone else.
After the one that can't get over the barn-door sill, I say: 'This little pig said wait, I'll say the last two together so you'll see they rhyme beautifully. Reg'lar poetry. "'This little pig said, "Quee! Quee! Quee! can't get over the barn-door sill." "'This little pig said, "He! He! He! when you tickle, I can't keep still!" "Elly Precious wiggles it when I tickle! We laugh like everything.
He had heard within the last half hour many words spoken by Miss Thoroughbung which proved that she was altogether unfit to be his wife. It was a dreadful misfortune that he should have rushed into such peril; but was he not bound as a gentleman to tell her the truth? "Say that I shall have Jemima Tickle!" The added horrors of the Christian name operated upon him with additional force.
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