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I figured he would tell his chief that, but there had been so much boot-licking done by a couple of writers over there that, for the honor of the craft, I thought somebody ought to have a wallop at these press crushers once in a while. This admiral is worth a paragraph, because he was a type.
As he leaned there, it was plain that he longed for trouble. "I might not!" he mocked, disgusted. "Sure, y' might! For the reason that you ain't the kind that's got a wallop in your fist!" Mr. Perkins got up, too. But only as if it were the well-bred thing to do. The bronze of his face was considerably darker than usual; and his eyes were black, and shone like great beads.
The two former heroes had by this time somewhat recovered from their surprise at seeing me once more in the land of the living, and seemed disposed to wax facetious in proportion at my expense. I dug my thumbs into my ears, in the hopes of getting on with my work, but it was not easy, and I had at last to give up the attempt. "Jolly glad he's not kicked the bucket, for one thing," said Wallop.
I would far sooner have been thrashed out and out by Wallop than be left thus under what Hawkesbury would certainly consider an obligation to him. "I thought it best," said he, in his insinuating way, "to interfere. You are really not well enough for that sort of thing, Batchelor."
The logical contender for Jack Dempsey's championship honours has been discovered; and, in an age where women are stealing men's jobs all the time, it will not come as a surprise to our readers to learn that she belongs to the sex that is more deadly than the male. Her name is Miss Pauline Preston, and her wallop is vouched for under oath under many oaths by Mr.
Stover gasped and retreated, while Carara crossed himself, then sidled back of a bunk. Mr. Cloudy stepped silently out through the open door and held his thumbs. "You start to kid me and I'll wallop you " "One moment!" Willie was transfigured suddenly.
He found the Army Boys looking with great interest at a spade which they held out to him as they approached. "Here's a souvenir, old boy," grinned Billy. "It's the one you lammed into the Huns with," explained Bart. "My, but that was a mighty wallop. They went down like tenpins." "I guess it gave them a headache," laughed Tom. "I know that I put all my weight behind the blows."
I was anxious to get the ceremony over as soon as possible, and therefore walked straight up to his desk, and, placing the thirty shillings before him, said, in a voice which I did not trouble to conceal from the other clerks present. "That's the thirty shillings you paid Wallop for me the other day, Hawkesbury. I'm much obliged for the loan of it."
"Quite well, Shingle," rejoins the gloved, a stout red faced sudoriferous yam fed planter, dressed in blue white jean trowsers and waistcoat, with long Hessian boots drawn up to his knee over the former, and a spannew square skirted blue coatee, with lots of clear brass buttons: a broad brimmed black silk hat, worn white at the edge of the crown wearing a very small neckcloth, above which shoots up an enormous shirt collar, the peaks of which might serve for winkers to a starting horse, and carrying a large whip in his hand "Quite well, my dear fellow," while he persists in dragging at it the other homo all the while standing in the absurd position of a finger post at length off comes the glove piecemeal perhaps a finger first, for instance then a thumb at length they tackle to, and shake each other like the very devil not a sober pump handle shake, but a regular jiggery jiggery, as if they were trying to dislocate each other's arms and, confound them, even then they don't let go they cling like sucker fish, and talk and wallop about, and throw themselves back and laugh, and then another jiggery jiggery.
"Come," he said, when out of ear-shot of the man, "we must pass through this village quickly, for we know not in what house the spies may have taken up their quarters." "But, don' you tink," suggested Ebony, "dat we five could wallop any oder five men in de univarse, to say not'ing ob two spies?"
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