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He was "monkeying with a buzz-saw" all the same if he did but know it, and yet he always professed to follow the metaphor that he could "throw off the belt" that drove the pulley at his own good pleasure and so stop the connecting machinery before the teeth of the whirling blade could reach his fingers.
Patsy approved the proposition, so they gathered up their supplies and moved along the hollow to where a passage had been cut through. They had gone barely a hundred yards when a screech, like a buzz-saw when it strikes a nail, sounded overhead. Looking up they saw a black disk hurtling through the air, to drop almost where they had been standing a moment before.
You got me that first night. Go ahead. But but listen here. I can't let them take me to-day, my head is spinning like a buzz-saw, Tommy I can't, I can't, I can't! It's the cut in my head. All this starts it aching again it just " He lowered his head until his wounded forehead rested on Tom's lap. "I'm I'm just beaten," he sobbed.
"'Don't tell her, he says. 'Don't tell her, he says to me, hoppin' 'round the kitchen like a buzz-saw. 'I want to surprise her. "You can bet he did, too if you'll overlook the liberty. When he was all ready, he made me go in ahead. "'To-ot! says I, genial-like they treated me jus' like one of 'em. 'To-ot! Lookey-at!
It has been well said that it is better for a third party to quarrel with a buzz-saw than to interfere between husband and wife; and Steve was constitutionally averse to anything that savoured of butting in. Still, Kirk had turned the talk into this channel. He decided to risk it. "If I were you," he said, "I'd get busy and start something." "Such as what?"
They turned and walked back to the cab. Collins fell into the Bowery strut. "Tryin' to throw a scare into me," he argued feebly. "Me? Oh, no. You mentioned soft music and the preacher. Mebbeso. But it's liable to be for you if you monkey with the buzz-saw.
It was still nearly an hour to dinner-time at the general's mess, and he wished to be alone to think over matters, to hear the soothing plash and murmur of the little waves, and Stuyvesant vowed in his wrath and vexation that Satan himself must be managing his affairs, for, over and above the longed-for melody of the rhythmic waters, he was hailed by the buzz-saw stridencies of Miss Perkins, whose first words gave the lie to themselves.
Now, there is only one machine that makes a noise like a buzz-saw going about its lawful business, and that is a British battle-plane, and that this was such a machine, Tam knew. Why it should be flying at that height and in a direction opposite to that in which the battle-line lay, was a mystery.
"No, not if you keep your eyes peeled," answered Garry, emptying his glass. "Never saw Gilbert but once, and then he looked to me like a softy from Pillowville. Couldn't fool me, I tell you, on a deal like that. I'd have had a 'stop order' somewhere. Served Gilbert right; no business to be monkeying with a buzz-saw unless he knew how to throw off the belt."
One fellow his name was Phil Pettis was skunkin' mean enough to read a note Jud sent down oncet an' tell about it roun' Skyland; but that was the only time any of 'em ever done anything like that, fer Jud jest laid fer Phil an' went through him like a buzz-saw an' chucked him inter the flume. "No, it didn't kill Phil, but he got tol'able well used up.
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