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But I know their tricks." A summons to tea below interrupted him. "Hungry, my word! Hardly dared eat in that dining-coach. Tinned stuff all about one. Appendicitis! American journal some Colonel chap found it out. Hunting sort. Looked a fool beside his silly horse, but seemed to know. Took no chances. Said the tin-opener slays its thousands. Rot, no doubt. Perhaps not."
The scissors, knife, and thimble, and penknife were, of course, lost, but the other things were there and as good as new. Cyril contributed lead soldiers, a cannon, a catapult, a tin-opener, a tie-clip, and a tennis ball, and a padlock no key. Jane added a key-ring, the brass handle of a poker, a pot that had held cold-cream, a smoked pearl button off her winter coat, and a key no lock.
"Now you," said Mr. MacAngus to Jack Rotheram. "I am not an Avory," said Jack. "I am Mary's brother. I am twelve. I am going to Osborne next year." "Very sensible of you," said Mr. MacAngus. "And you, sir," he added to Horace Campbell, "the burglar's friend." "My name is Horace Campbell," he replied. "I am the son of the Vicar of Chiswick. I am nine. I am also the Keeper of the Tin-opener."
"Hester, you little nuisance, get off that box; it's got the bread in it." "Hester, stop reading and come and help." "Horace, the fire's nearly out." "I wish some of you would stop talking and tell me where the tin-opener is." "Jack, you lazy ruffian, why don't you get some more sticks?" "I say, Kink, do you think this old brisket will ever be done?"
For her pet Nedda, a piece of 'point de Venise' that she really could not be selfish enough to keep any longer, especially as she was particularly fond of it. For Alan, a new kind of tin-opener that the dear boy would like enormously; he was so nice and practical. For Sheila, such a nice new novel by Mr. and Mrs.
Put you to the edge of the sword or rather of the tin-opener," and he pulled his lunch-basket from under the seat. "Have some chicken, little Worm?" he continued, opening the basket and preparing to eat. "Keep your muck," replied Horace.
Followed statements from half a dozen distinguished surgeons, each signed autographically, all but one rather bluntly disagreeing with me, insisting that the tin-opener cuts cleanly and, if not man's best friend, should at least be considered one of the triumphs of civilization.
I collected in a bag a few delicacies from the under-regions of this house, Lyons sausages, salami, mortadel, apples, roes, raisins, artichokes, biscuits, a few wines, a ham, bottled fruit, pickles, coffee, and so on, with a gold plate, tin-opener, cork-screw, fork, &c., and dragged them all the long way back to the engine before I could eat.
Suddenly we came, however, upon something which cheered our hearts. It was the site of an old encampment, with several empty Chicago meat tins, a bottle labeled "Brandy," a broken tin-opener, and a quantity of other travelers' debris. A crumpled, disintegrated newspaper revealed itself as the Chicago Democrat, though the date had been obliterated. "Not mine," said Challenger.
"Now, Horace," said Janet, "where's the tin-opener?" How is it that everything goes wrong at once? Horace had to hunt for the tinopener for twenty minutes, and turn the whole place upside down before he could find it, and then it was too late. Meanwhile the rain was steadily falling, and Kink and Robert were busy getting up the tents before the ground underneath was too wet.
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