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Updated: August 4, 2024
Why, the hull kittle of boilin' water just doused itself on my hand and foot!" "That's why Ma didn't rise to greet you," explained the Elegant Ella, and again Molly had hard work to keep her face straight as she noted the girl's comical efforts at etiquette. "Aw, you keep still, Ella," said her mother; "you ain't got no call to talk to the young ladies." But although Mrs.
The delicate maidenhair lay like a rich carpet beneath our feet, while hundreds of magnificent climbing pitcher-plants doused us with water as we knocked against them. Our sympiesometer showed us that we were twenty-eight hundred feet above the sea. Beyond the padang-batu we entered a forest of almost Alpine character, dwarfed and stunted.
"Absolutely safe!" the Chief Commissioner assured him. "The caparisons may be doused in the Nerbudda, but the howdahs will not be in the least wet." "What did she mean that she'd fetch them all back?" "She meant that Mitha Baba has been used in the High Hills for years before she was sent down to decoy wild elephants into the trap-stockades.
If he "crashed" over there, it was something to have banished the grim spectre of want from these two who were old and helpless. He was thinking of this along with a jumble of other thoughts as he leaned on the rail of a transport slipping with lights doused out of the port of Halifax.
From the village below, curious-eyed Mexicans began pouring into camp with the earliest dawn, and by the time the three involuntary imposters were out of their tent and had doused each other with cold water, the place presented a scene of lively activity and bustle.
"Huzza! send her up again!" cried Lankey. The auger was again applied. This time a shriek was heard from the purser's cabin. Instantly the light was doused, and the party retreated hurriedly to the cockpit. A sound of snoring was heard as the sentry stuck his head into the door. "All right, sir," he replied in answer to the voice of the officer of the deck.
Again Learoyd rooted up the innocent violets. "Ay, he should see th' bowels o' th' earth an' never naught else. I could take him a mile or two along th' drift, and leave him wi' his candle doused to cry hallelujah, wi' none to hear him and say amen.
Be sure the slide is shut in that lantern, and call the boy to watch for us. Be sure that glim is doused I don't want anybody to know about this." I slipped off the ladder and clung to the superstructure out of the range of the light which spurted from the open door as Harris came out.
Then they locked the door and went into Dick's room, which had not been disturbed. As they did this another door opened, and Stanley poked out his head, followed by Max. "We heard it all," said the Southern lad with a chuckle. "Hope you doused 'em good!" "We did," answered Tom. "They didn't tackle you, did they?" "No; but I suppose they will later, or to-morrow."
Made José look as if he'd been doused with cold water and him breathing fire and brimstone the minute before. "It was funny, I reckon to Teresita; we didn't see the joke. Every time I bring up the subject of that runaway, she laughs; but she won't say whether it was a runaway, no matter how I sneak the question in.
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