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The sides are protected by water-wings, which are embankments of stone, to prevent the floods from extending on either side, and attacking the flanks of the bridge." Nine miles further north, they arrived at Dingwall, near which a bridge similar to that at Beauly, though wider, had been constructed over the Conan.
I would rather die." "But you can't appear without a pianist." "I've got a pianist." "You have?" "Yes. A little undersized shrimp of a fellow with a green face and ears like water-wings." "I don't think I know him." "Yes, you do. He's you!" "Me!" "Yes, you. You are going to sit at the piano to-night." "I'm sorry to disappoint you, but it's impossible. I gave you my views on the subject just now."
I would rather die!" "But you can't appear without a pianist." "I've got a pianist." "You have?" "Yes. A little undersized shrimp of a fellow with a green face and ears like water-wings." "I don't think I know him." "Yes, you do. He's you!" "Me!" "Yes, you. You are going to sit at the piano to-night." "I'm sorry to disappoint you, but it's impossible. I gave you my views on the subject just now."
It weighed as much as a well-fed calf, and had three kinds of meat in its body, fish, flesh, and fowl, and it had four water-wings, for they could not be properly called fins; but what was little short of a miracle about the creature, happened after the head was cutted off, when, if a finger was offered to it, it would open its mouth and snap at it, and all this after the carcass was divided for dressing.
But when the tide was high in the afternoon, even Bert admitted that it was "darned conspicuous" for the family to file across the vision of the women who were playing bridge on the porch, and for Anne to shriek over her water-wings and the boys to yell, as they inevitably did yell, "Gee it's cold!" Their real reason for more or less abandoning the habit was that there was so much else to do.
Tom was curiously excited. He felt buoyed up. It was like water-wings, he told himself. And when he tried afterwards to think of the things he had said, he could remember nothing except that he had quoted Alice's perplexity about bats eating cats when she was falling down the well, and that they had both laughed immoderately.
It was necessary to head Steve off from further expressions of gratitude. "I like your cheek!" said Tom. "Can't swim! How do you suppose I got out there to you, you silly chump? You didn't see any water-wings or life-preservers floating around, did you? Or do you think I walked? Can't swim! Well, of all the " "You know what I mean, Tom.
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