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Biggs, who, mistaking the right-hand slipper for the left, began tugging at it. "I told you so," she said. "Your foot is twice as big." "Try this one," Jack suggested, "or let me;" and he fitted the slipper at once to the little foot, while Mrs. Biggs exclaimed, "Wall, I vum, it does fit to a T! If anything, it's too big."
He made the opening longer as well as wider, and at last was able by hard tugging to get the box through. He thrust it into his pouch and they recommenced the filling of their pockets with goldpieces. Before a dozen coins had been removed a sudden red glare on the walls of the chasm caused the three to leap to their feet.
All the people were headed eagerly in one direction, but at the corner of the street in which Aladdin lived, an awkish, half-grown girl, her face contorted with terror, struggled against the tugging of two younger companions and screamed in a terrible voice: "I don't wahnt to go! I don't wahnt to go!" But they dragged her along. That girl had no father, and her mother walked the streets.
Scrambling with his legs, tugging with his arms, he drew himself into position and straightway collapsed along the back of Alcatraz with both hands interwoven in the mane of the horse. And the stallion endured it! A shout of amazement burst from the foreman and his men.
"No no quick!" gasped Frank, tugging at his arm. "I tell you I've got to have it out with that man!" protested the pitiably dazed but dogged combatant at her side. "You can't, Jim!" "But I've got to!" "You can't you can't," she moaned, "for he's dead!" A sudden sickening fear crept through his aching bones, seeming to leave them fluid, like wax. "You you did it?" he asked unsteadily.
Then fell upon the assembly a series of squeaks and gruntings and tunings and twinges and groans and wails such as was never heard outside a Bach festival. And little Sebastian, tugging at his violin, tuned and squeaked and grunted with the rest, oblivious to the taps that fell on his small head from surrounding bows.
But no, the captain laughed, and tugging away with his one free hand at his pocket, he brought out a pocketbook, from which he managed deftly enough to draw out three bills. "There," said he, laying them on the table, but keeping one long vigorous finger on them. "Now, the word." Sweetwater laid his own hand on the bills. "Frederick," said he.
It is recommended that we be permitted to try the Russian model, which has been well tested. Small power boats should be employed for tugging, as rowing would be a waste of valuable time. To permit horses to swim ashore is to be condemned, for it would cause confusion and delay, and we know from experience that a large number are sometimes lost.
Phil attacked it desperately, tugging and grunting, the perspiration rolling down his face, for the heat in there was now almost more than he could bear. With a mighty effort he wrenched the timber from the prostrate woman, then quickly gathered her up in his arms. "I knew you'd come, Phil, if you were alive," she breathed, her head resting on his shoulder.
Soon they came in view of the famous Erie Canal, hard by the road. Through it the grain of the far West had just begun moving eastward in a tide that was flowing from April to December. Big barges, drawn by mules and horses on its shore, were cutting the still waters of the canal. They stopped and looked at the barges and the long tow ropes and the tugging animals.
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