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"And what 'll pay for it?" asked Mr. McKenna, in blank amazement. "This," said Mr. Dooley, whacking the pile before him. "Here's twinty thousand dollars iv th' bonds iv th' raypublic. Me cousin Mike put thim up with me f'r a loan iv five. He wurruked in th' threeasurer's office; an', whin th' polis broke up th' Irish rivolution, he put on his coat an' stuck a month's bond issue in his pocket.
Then he deliberately kicked the tiger's head with his foot and catching up a fallen branch of a tree he went to the wolf and gave it a good whacking. Both the beasts were furious at such treatment but could not resent it. Button Bright now threw down the stick and with his hands in his pockets wandered carelessly away. "Now," said Glinda, "let the Glass Cat run and find him.
Soon the road was cluttered up with American soldiers. They were driving motors, whacking mules, stringing along the by-paths and sweating copiously under the autumn sun. We wondered in passing what an American farmer boy and his self-respecting mule thought of the two-wheeled French carts they were using.
It was only with difficulty, and an undue proportion of whacking, that the elements of the alphabet were driven into his head by an impatient teacher a mode of instruction that probably caused him to remark, in after life, that 'many children, not naturally dull, have become so under the influence of the schoolmaster. It is related of Dr.
The instructions were promptly carried out as far as the transports were concerned, but from the Ponto came a signal: "Am doing my maximum speed. Must drop astern if speed of convoy is not reduced." "The blighter has got hold of the code all right," remarked Laxdale. "We'll wait and see the fun. Wonder why we are whacking up speed?"
I stood up clear on deck and shut the valve behind the helmet to let the air accumulate to carry me up again I noticed a kind of whacking from above, as though they were hitting the water with an oar, but I didn't look up. I fancied they were signalling me to come up. "And then something shot down by me something heavy, and stood a-quiver in the planks.
We lives on the simple fruits of the earth, my dears; we eats of the root, and we drinks of the spring; but that doesn't prevent us having a whacking appetite somewhere about seven forty-five. Edith, my love, pass me the cayenne-pepper. 'Boys shouldn't use cayenne-pepper, said Nan. 'And babies should speak only when they're spoken to, he observed.
She was smiling, without amusement but pleasantly, and after an interval half a dozen words fell into the space between them: "I wish I had some gum-drops." "You shall!" He beckoned to a waiter and sent him to the cigar counter. "D'you mind? I love gum-drops. Everybody kids me about it because I'm always whacking away at one whenever my daddy's not around." "Not at all.
"I've seen him, and I'll lay you a thousand rupees even he doesn't." "Done!" said I, whacking my hand down on the table. "And I'll lay another thousand," says another fellow. "Done with you too," said I. Every one began to stare a bit then. "Go to bed, Paddy," says the Colonel, "you're making an exhibition of yourself."
"Oh, it may seem funny, but really, any change will be good for me now. I've been whacking at this old Sunday edition until I'm sick of it, and some,. times I wish the Eclipse was in hell." That's all right," laughed the proprietor of the Eclipse. " But I still don't see how you 'are going to get any vacation out of a war that will upset the whole of Europe. But that's your affair.
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