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They set forward on this crusade in weather which would have rendered any other troops incapable of marching, but which in reality gave these active mountaineers advantages over a less hardy enemy. In defiance of a superior army lying upon the Borders, under Field- Marshal Wade, they besieged and took Carlisle, and soon afterwards prosecuted their daring march to the southward.
The cowboys looked at one another, not embarrassed, but just a little taken aback, as if they had forgotten something that they should have remembered. "You object to my playin'?" asked Wade, quietly. "I certainly do," replied Belllounds. "Why, may I ask?" "For all I know, what Montana said about you may be true," returned Belllounds, insolently.
I ain't askin' compensation for havin' to run for my life and," again looking grimly round the walls, "I ain't askin' more than you will give or is my rights." "But this house never was his; it was my father's," gasped Mrs. Wade; "you have no right" "Mebbe 'yes' and mebbe 'no, Mrs.
I could have put my fist in his mouth. "Grab the leader! Yank him out!" yelled R.C. in desperation. "There! He's got all the line." "But it'd be better to wade down," I yelled back. He shouted that the water was too deep and for me to save his fish. This was an awful predicament for me. I knew the instant I grasped the leader that the big trout would break it or pull free.
"It's taking chances." "'Nothing venture, nothing win," quoted Nickleby. "But I'll cover it up. Leave that to me." "Lawson has a lot of friends, remember. There's Ben Wade, for instance " "You needn't worry about him, Milt. He hasn't been able to get together more than thirty per cent. of the votes." "And there's Timothy Drexel He's a director, isn't he?" "That old fool!
He was battered and bruised, but still full of fight. "Come on, fellows, wade into them," he shouted hoarsely. His tried and true comrades needed no second bidding, and now began a battle compared to which the other seemed mild. The three thugs who had been trying to overpower Tom were brutal fighters, and withal were men of muscle. But it did not take long to decide which side would win.
Wade told me you'd be as kind to me as a mother; and the moment I saw you I just said to myself, 'That MUST be Mrs. Hancock; she's so sweetly motherly. How good of you to burden yourself with a stranger like me! I hope, indeed, I won't be too much trouble." That was the beginning. I may as well say, first as last, we were all of us taken by storm "right away" by Melissa.
It had always seemed so vague, this business of dying, and now it was so personal he, Martin Wade, himself, not somebody else, would suffer a little while longer and then grow still forever.
Inasmuch as I had contributed very materially to the feast which was to take place that night, and which lasted all night long, the people let me wade about among the strangely helpless creatures and have a first pick of such as I wanted.
A third, however, killed a Pongo, which caused some confusion in the ranks of Tusculum. But we were done and they came on remorselessly. When their leading boat was not more than ten yards from us and we were perhaps two hundred from the shore, I drove my paddle downwards and finding that the water was less than four feet deep, shouted: "Overboard, all, and wade. It's our last chance!"
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