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And then one day he saw that which moved him to uneasy wrath two riders, in a glade of the Park close to the Ham Gate, of whom she on the left-hand was most assuredly Holly on her silver roan, and he on the right-hand as assuredly that 'squirt' Val Dartie. His first impulse was to urge on his own horse and demand the meaning of this portent, tell the fellow to 'bunk, and take Holly home.
"Bring me a plate!" "Oh, say, Adolph, make my order a chop instead of those ham and eggs." "Yah!" "And, Adolph." "Yes, sir." "I want a glass of milk, with a squirt of vichy in it. Don't forget." "Nein, I vunt!" "And speed up, Adolph, we're all in a hurry." "Shure. You vos allvays in a hurry!" The German waiter scurried away.
He would sometimes feed other people, but as a rule he disliked strangers, and I have known him even take water in his beak and squirt it at those who displeased him.
We walked across the city, and through the Piazza de Navona, where we stopped to look at one of Bernini's absurd fountains, of which the water makes but the smallest part, a little squirt or two amid a prodigious fuss of gods and monsters. Thence we passed by the poor, battered-down torso of Pasquin, and came, by devious ways, to the bridge of St.
"I wish Mr. Bobbsey were here," said the lumber merchant's wife. "Uncle Daniel will fix him!" declared Freddie. "Uncle Daniel's got a gun. Mamma, can't I take my fire engine and squirt water on that bear?" "No, indeed!" answered Mrs. Bobbsey. "Get back to bed right away." "Dan, you'd better see what it is," said Aunt Sarah, as her husband, half dressed, was heard out in the hall.
Instead of that there was usually a feeble splutter from the nozzle, and sometimes none at all, even if the hose did not break; it was fun to see the hose break. The Neptune was a favorite with the boys, though they believed that the Tremont could squirt farther, and they had a belief in its quiet efficiency which was fostered by its reticence in public.
"I waited for him out on the quadrangle and I told him he was wanted in the cadet dispatcher's office right away and that I would take the spools on up to Tony." "And you brought them here!" howled Astro. "Yup." Roger grinned. "Do you think that squirt will know who I am? Not in a million years. And by the time Tony and the others do find out who has them, we'll be finished. Get it?"
I draw the line at that sort of talk," the doctor said; "he can lay down the law to me, all he wants to; but when it comes to instructing you " "Oh, well, he's young," Dr. Lavendar soothed him; "you can't expect him not to know everything at his age." "He's a squirt," said William. In those days in Old Chester middle age was apt to sum up its opinion of youth in this expressive word.
A modern prophet may wear a broadcloth coat and write to the magazines; but none the less he may be the little pipe which conveys a tiny squirt from the reservoirs of truth. Look at this!" I cried, rising and reading my Carlyle text. "That comes from no Hebrew prophet, but from a ratepayer in Chelsea. He and Emerson are also among the prophets.
"There's the squirt, Wal." The squirt was there; so was the jug of water, and a moment sufficed to charge the weapon. The nozzle was gently inserted into the sleeper's pyjama collar, and in a moment the drenched and wrathful hero arose majestically from his watery pillow and, seizing his tormentors, banged their heads together with great effort.
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