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Oh, this is -is fearful!" gasped Ham Spink, putting his thumb and forefinger to his nose. "Wha-what am I to do?" "Ham has caught it and no mistake!" whispered Snap. "He'll be as sweet as a bag of bone fertilizer after this," was Shep's comment. "You'll be able to smell him ten miles off," vouchsafed Whopper. "You'll recognize him in the dark with your eyes closed." "Hi, you!
Thacker, Spink & Co., of Calcutta, which interested me, for both its preface and its contents treated of this matter of over-education. In the preface occurs this paragraph from the Calcutta Review.
And not only did the old steward, with signs emphatic and unmistakable, pledge himself to perform the execution, but we were all convinced that he was eager for the task. With Margaret I also left Buckwheat and Tom Spink. Wada, the two sail- makers, Louis, and the two topaz-eyed ones accompanied me. In addition to fighting weapons we were armed with axes.
No sooner thought than done. Tom Spink and Louis were on top the chart- house with me and preparing to lower the flour, when we heard a voice issuing from the shaft. "Who's in there now?" I demanded. "Speak up." "I'm givin' you a last chance," Bert Rhine answered. And just then, around the corner of the house, stepped the steward.
While Spink and his wife were thus employed, Widow Brand, Minnie Gray, and Captain Ogilvy were seated at tea, round the little table in the snug kitchen of the widow's cottage. It might have been observed that there were two teapots on the table, a large one and a small, and that the captain helped himself out of the small one, and did not take either milk or sugar.
"I know what you mean, my lad; sit down." Spink sat down on the edge of the chair, and looked at the other uneasily. "Have a cup of tea?" said the captain abruptly, seizing the small pot and pouring out a cupful. "Thank 'ee I I niver tak' tea." "Take it to-night, then. It will do you good."
"What do you suppose had become of him?" said Ham to Carl, in considerable alarm. "I am sure I don't know, and Bamling says he doesn't know either," was the answer. Ham Spink made numerous inquiries and soon learned from some rivermen that Kiddy Leech had yielded to his weakness for strong liquor and gone off on a spree. "We are out our money," he said to Carl Rudder, in disgust.
The Spink crowd wanted to argue, but our friends would not listen. One of the boys wanted to fight, but the sight of the guns made him hold back. At last those on the raft put off from the shore and disappeared in the darkness. "They are as mad as wet hens," said Giant. "Do you think they'll come back?" "Possibly," answered Snap. "We'll have to keep a strict watch."
"Like enough," said Swankie, with an air of indifference, as he put the gold into his pocket. "I think I've seed it mysel'. It looks like auld Jamie Brand, but I didna ken him weel." "It's just him," said Spink, with a touch of sadness. "Ay, ay, that'll fa' heavy on the auld woman. But, come, it'll no' do to stand haverin' this way. Let's see what else is on him."
Rocks covered with wet seaweed and rugged in form are not easy to walk over; a fact which was soon proved by Swankie staggering violently once or twice, and by Spink falling flat on his back. Neither paid attention to his comrade's misfortunes in this way.
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