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"Go to it, old wrangler," said Charleton. "I can spout the Persian Poet to 'em if you run short of Bible stuff." "Baa a a!" bleated a small boy in the back of the room. "I'm going to give the first young one that makes a disturbance a dose of aspen switch," said Grandma Brown. There was a general chuckle that quieted as Mr. Fowler began to speak. "Religion doesn't rest on proof. It rests on Faith.
All there was blank as the moon. The haggard cheeks and anxious eyes of the other told that he had already drunk deep of the bitter waters of life. Blob was staring at Kit with the solemn interest of a babe. Then he pointed a finger. "Boy!" he bleated. "Call me 'sir'!" ordered Kit imperiously. "And take your hands out of your pockets when you talk to me."
I smiled the smile of a skull in a doctor's waiting-room, and in a sickly voice bleated my pleasure in meeting these new acquaintances. I hoped we might be er friends as well as shipmates. Then like a mass of jelly out of its mould I plopped onto my chair. The colonel had sneaked off to his own table and I was left to recover myself as best I might among eight of his enemies.
He bleated so piteously outside the door when his lady dined that at last he won the desire of his heart and lapped milk from a bowl on the floor at her side as she ate her salad or broke her grapes. "What scandal!" muttered Giacomo every time he brought the bowl. The Contessa would discharge him if she knew!
They jostled one another impudently, carrying their inquisitive heads and short tails erect, at right angles to the horizontal line of their narrow backs. They bleated, as in impish mischief. Their little beards wagged. Their little hoofs pattered on the stone, and the musky odour of them hung in the burning air.
'I'll bet ye I'm a corp afore we get to Dover, he bleated. 'That's as near as ever ye'll be to bein' a corporal, remarked the cheerful Jake. 'But hoo d'ye ken it'll be Dover? 'I'll bet ye Na! I'll no tak' on ony mair wagers. I've a tremenjous bet on wi' this yin' indicating Macgregor 'every dashed penny I possess that we're boun' for Flanders. He says the Dardanelles.
The wretch often disguises himself, but you will know him at once by his rough voice and his black feet. The kids said: 'Dear mother, we will take good care of ourselves; you may go away without any anxiety. Then the old one bleated, and went on her way with an easy mind.
'You are always in a hurry, captain, bleated the old man, shaking his head. 'You should wait till to-morrow. The sky is not good, and it will be dark before you are off Eckenförde. Davies laughed, and very soon his mentor's sad little figure was lost in haze. That was a curious evening.
Willy nilly, I folded him to my breast, I pressed him there, I kissed his ugly mug as it had never been kissed before and would never be kissed again; and in the doing so knocked his wig awry and his hat off. He bleated in my embrace; so bleats the sheep in the arms of the butcher.
There were pipings of pain and pipings of joy; there was whistling to pierce the drums of ears; there were hootings and howlings and bleatings and screechings, while over all bleated the heathen battle-cry incessantly: "GOTCHER BUMPUS! GOTCHER BUMPUS!" For the boys had been inspired by the unusual water to transform Penrod's game of "Gotcher bumpus" into an aquatic sport, and to induce one another, by means of superior force, dexterity, or stratagems, either to sit or to lie at full length in the flood, after the example of Carlie Chitten.
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