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Gladstone could doubt that the two expressions referred to the same thing. He seems to have felt that he must be a poor wriggler if he could not wriggle out of this; give him any loophole, however small, and Mr.

But that English feller stands out even here. This girl is certainly a first-class wriggler, if she's nothing else." They did not mention the stranger again that night.

Farewell, Mariandl! if I come back a sergeant-major or a Field-Marshal, don't turn up your nose at me: Swear you will be faithful all the while; because, when a woman swears, it's a comfort, somehow: Farewell! Squeeze the cow's udders: I shall be thirsty enough: You pretty wriggler! don't you know, the first cup of wine and the last, I shall float your name on it? Luck to the lads we leave behind!

Mountstuart was compassionating Vernon for his ducking in pursuit of the wriggler; which De Craye likened to "going through the river after his eel:" and immediately there was a cross-questioning of the boy between De Craye and Willoughby on the subject of his latest truancy, each gentleman trying to run him down in a palpable fib.

After they had hurried around the outer edge of the fire, which was rapidly reaching towards them in little wriggling, snake-like streams of fire, Tom directed the girls to spread out, each taking several rods of front to protect. "Beat it out as fast as you can. When you see a wriggler reaching for a tree, beat it out with your spruce boughs," he ordered. "Don't try to put out a tree on fire.

You'll wake Aunt Arna, and she's tired after being all day on the chou-chou cars." "Merry Ch'is'mus, Aunty Arna!" shouted the irrepressible Minna. "Oh, darling, be quiet! We'll play little pig goes to market. I'll tell you a story, only be quiet a little while." It took Peggy's utmost effort to keep the little wriggler still for the hour from five to six.