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Updated: August 31, 2025
At a signal from the man in the well the other raised the first bucket of stuff and dumped it on the ground. "Hurrah! Our football!" exclaimed Harry, yanking out from the muddy things the big black rubber ball lost the year before. "And our baseball," called Tom Mason, as another ball was extracted from the pile. "Peter Burns' dinner pail," laughed Harry, rescuing that article from the heap.
As he reached the bit of sandy foreshore, he paused for the first time since stopping to survey the car. An unpainted rowboat was drawn up on the beach. Half way between it and the tangle of woodland behind, was a man clad only in undershirt and dirty duck trousers. He was yanking along by the scruff of the neck a protesting and evidently angry collie. The man was big and rugged.
When they reached Edgham, Maria and Gladys got off the train, Wollaston Lee also got off, and Harry Edgham, and from a rear car a stout woman, yanking, rather than leading, by the hand, a little girl with a fluff of yellow hair. The child was staggering with sleep. The stout woman carried on her other arm a large wax-doll whose face smiled inanely over her shoulder.
The first rough storm of Lablache's passion had passed. He was "yanking" himself up to the proper attitude for the business in hand. Although he had calmed considerably his lashless eyes gleamed viciously, and his flabby face wore an expression which boded ill for the object of his rage, should that unfortunate ever come within the range of his power.
His idea of getting service out of a horse is, first to snatch him to a standstill by yanking on the bit and then to force the poor brute into a gallop by lashing at him with a whip having a particularly loud and vixenish cracker on it; and at every occasion to whoop at the top of his voice. In the second place the street is as narrow as a narrow alley, feebly lighted, and has no sidewalks.
"Like what?" Trigger asked. "Oh," Mihul said, "there're all sorts of possibilities, of course." She nodded her head at the guns. "Like yanking the Denton out of my holster and feeding me a dose of the stunner. Or picking up that coffee pot there and tapping me on the skull with it. It's about the right weight." Trigger said thoughtfully, "I don't think either of those would work."
"Remember, they are not so accustomed to riding as you two are." This caution was uttered just in time, for Horace was in the very act of yanking the youthful commander by the foot when his father spoke. Not long did it take to prepare the food, and Bill was just pouring the coffee when Mr. Wilder aroused his guests. "Wh what is it?" gasped Larry, sitting up and staring about him dazedly.
There; stop that yanking; for the lord's sake, doctor, hold on there." "I am holding on, Daddy," said the doctor very firmly, as he mended the dislocated shoulder. The necessary surgical operation performed, and an opiate administrated, with the assurance that no serious results were to be apprehended, and Daddy's mind and body were soon at rest.
But the great percentage of the maltreated multitude were "Old Timers," men of four or five years of digging who had learned to know this strange creature, the American, and the world, too; who smiled indulgently down upon our yelping and yanking like a St. Bernard above the snapping puppy he well knows cannot seriously bite him. Dense black night had fallen.
This irreverent flight of fancy on our part, however, is yanking the strong man from his appropriate and supporting setting, where paste is given the glow of an authentic stone; in the sympathetic pages created by feminine intuition he dominates the machine.
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