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"And it was," interrupted Marjorie; "and we had a pretty good time, only I was too heavy and I went down whizz zip! And Molly came flying up, and if we hadn't caught each other, I s'pect we'd both have been drowned!" Grandma Sherwood began to realize that there had been not only mischief but real danger in this latest escapade.
They were closer spaced, too, as they come nearer, an' I reckon there wasn't more'n fifty or sixty yards atween the last two or three bursts. An' we was still walkin' on, every man wi' his reins short an' feelin' 'is 'orse's mouth, an' his knees grippin' the saddle hard. "Bang!" one hits the road about one-fifty to two hundred yards short an' we heard chips o' it whizz an' hum past us.
But somebody is out for your blood, and here is clear warning. Gee whizz! If I remain in Steynholme a week I shall become an occultist. What is a lyme-hound?" "'Lyme, or 'leam, is the old-time word for 'leash." "Good!" said Hart. "That will appeal to Furneaux. Have him in to dinner every day, Jack. He's a tonic!"
As the three officers departed down the backdoor steps, a hesitating voice followed them "H'm! Is there any place where one can go a cellar, or any old spot of that kind just in case we are " "Bless you, you'll be all right!" was the cheery reply. They haven't been occupied for some months, so you may find them a bit ratty. You won't require them, though. Good-night!" Whizz! Boom! Bang! Crash!
As soon as the survivors of the first attack had retreated the air became thick with the shriek and moan of shrapnel, and the vicious whizz of Mauser bullets. This went on for nearly an hour, then a second attack materialised.
Whizz whuzz dash! here, there, and everywhere with lightning-like rapidity. "It's wonderful," I said at last, and I thought how strange it was that I had never thought of such a thing before. "Now I dare say," I found myself saying, "they think that we are as great a nuisance as we think them, for putting up a rough canvas tent like this, and catching them so that they cannot get out. Stuff!
Throwing a sack of cartridges over my horse's back, I set off. No sooner in the open, than whizz, whizz, went the bullets past my ear. The pony stopped, confused. I struck the spurs into his flanks, and on we flew, the rapid motion, the novelty of the affair, and the continual whistle of the bullets producing in me a peculiar feeling of exaltation. Then the sack tumbled off.
One time I had a narrow chance of being shot and settled with; and it befell me thus. I was waiting very carelessly, being now a little desperate, at the entrance to the glen, instead of watching through my sight-hole, as the proper practice was. Suddenly a ball went by me, with a whizz and whistle, passing through my hat and sweeping it away all folded up.
They pulled with the greatest gentleness, till the wet bucket appeared about two yards below them, like a dead friend come to earth again. Three or four hands were stretched out, then jerk went the rope, whizz went the wheel, the two foremost haulers fell backward, the beating of a falling body was heard, receding down the sides of the well, and a thunderous uproar arose at the bottom.
Puzzling sometimes over passages with Mabel that with mysterious and surprising suddenness had plunged into scenes, he had whimsically envisaged how he had been, as it were, led blindfolded to the edge of a precipice, and then, whizz! sent flying over on to the angry crags below. Bantering protest sometimes averted the disaster. "Well, come now, Mabel, that's not my fault.
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