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The next day Edmund thought he would prove his tale by showing people the cockatrice, and he actually persuaded some people to go into the cave with him; but the cockatrice had bolted himself in and would not open the door so Edmund got nothing by that except a scolding for taking people on a wild-goose chase. "A wild goose," said they, "is nothing like a cockatrice."
I'm going with Hiram on a wild-goose chase, and I'm hoping to have some fun. When I come back, old man, I want you to be feeling differently, and I expect to be feeling differently myself. This afternoon I am starting for the Pacific coast, and if Hiram and I, between us, can't stir up a few thrills, and corral a little enjoyment, then I've got another guess coming.
His centre, with the village of Ramillies and the Tomb of Ottomond commanding it, the really important positions of the day, was weakened by the loss of troops sent on a wild-goose chase. Ere Villeroy could repair the mischief and summon his men from Anderkirk, Marlborough had sent down upon the French centre a great body of cavalry under the command of Auerkerke, the Dutch general.
For no sooner had Hilary disappeared, and the gunner made out that the chief officer was coming on deck, than he turned his back, busied himself about the breeching of one of the guns, and shouting to Tom Tully: "Going to send you ashore, matey?" "No," growled Tully; "what's on?" "Oh! some wild-goose hunt o' the skipper's. I don't mean to go, and don't you if you can help it.
I had spent my last shilling, and there I was trapesing across the island on a wild-goose chase with my reaping-hook and my fiddle; and my poor little Grace, that I that I " Mary's hand went a moment to his other shoulder, and she murmured through her tears, "You have got me."
The method of writing, and the use of the fashionable amusement quizzes Wauwau arrives from the country of Prester John, and leads the whole Assembly a wild-goose chase to the top of Plinlimmon, and thence to Virginia The Baron meets a floating island in his voyage to America Pursues Wauwau with his whole company through the deserts of North America His curious contrivance to seize Wauwau in a morass.
But I was gone a wild-goose chase indeed, and they who will have any more of me, must be content to follow me through a new variety of follies, hardships, and wild adventures; wherein the justice of Providence may be duly observed, and we may see how easily Heaven can gorge us with our own desires, make the strongest of our wishes to be our affliction and punish us most severely with those very things which we think it would be our utmost happiness to be allowed in.
"It's a wild-goose chase, I know," he concluded; "but then you may manage to turn up something." He knew that McNally would do everything that could be done in Chicago toward finding the missing Judge, so he went to work along other lines.
So fast fled he, that in less than a score of seconds he was out of sight not only of his masters in the tree, but of his pursuer, the elephant. The latter only followed him for some half-dozen lengths of its own carcase; and seeing that the pursuit was likely to be a wild-goose chase, declined following Fritz any farther.
On the instant a score of the men who had declined to accompany him on the wild-goose chase were crowding about him with proffered gold-sacks. "How much flour do you want?" asked the Alaska Commercial Company's storekeeper. "About two ton." The proffered gold-sacks were not withdrawn, though their owners were guilty of an outrageous burst of merriment.
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