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Updated: June 17, 2025
On a level with the sill the water-pipe, up which Mike had started to climb the night before, was fastened to the wall by an iron band. He tied the other end of the string to this, and let the boot swing free. He noticed with approval, when it had stopped swinging, that it was hidden from above by the window-sill. He returned to his place at the mantelpiece.
Half the night would be given to this process, and a considerable portion of the remaining half would be devoted to smoking small pinches of tobacco in the peculiar Chinese water-pipe. According to an official note, issued early in 1882, by Mr.
The chill feeling of horror ran through me again as I listened. No! dead silence still in the passage I had only heard the night air blowing softly into the room. The next moment I was on the window-sill and the next I had a firm grip on the water-pipe with my hands and knees.
The poor creature, but recently released from captivity, and doubtless thinking that he might fill some vacancy in the editorial corps of the paper in question, had descended by the water-pipe and instinctively taken refuge in the inner sanctum of the establishment.
The chill feeling of horror ran through me again as I listened. No! dead silence still in the passage I had only heard the night air blowing softly into the room. The next moment I was on the window-sill and the next I had a firm grip on the water-pipe with my hands and knees.
There had been scarce a breathing-space between the second report of the pistol and the collie's counterattack. But there had been time enough for the onward-plunging thief to step into the narrow lip of the water-pipe ditch. The momentum of his own rush hurled the upper part of his body forward. But his left leg, caught between the ditch-sides, did not keep pace with the rest of him.
For prospect, I have a window like my own, at about five yards' distance, a few feet of red brick, and a leaden water-pipe! If I were to be ill in this hole! The fear of it kept me awake and feverish for hours; but falling asleep at last, I had the most vivid and delicious dream.
"Their faces barbecued, and their manes cut like the scales of a griffin, and the legs like bed-posts; a water-pipe stuck in their mouths does not add to their dignity."
Along the foot trail which led down the side of the big canon to the intake of the water-pipe, they established their fernery. It was not a formal affair, and the ferns were left to themselves. Dede and Daylight merely introduced new ones from time to time, changing them from one wild habitat to another. It was the same with the wild lilac, which Daylight had sent to him from Mendocino County.
I needed some money to bribe a lot of political grafters in a Pennsylvania city where I'm trying to sell a bill of water-pipe. I went to Mr. Henniker to borrow it." "And, of course, he wouldn't let you have it for any such wretched purpose!" she flamed out. "No, you are mistaken; it's just the other way around.
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