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"Do they understand our language?" "Some of them understand and speak a little, father, but they have with them one named Unders, who interprets. Come here, Unders." Anders promptly stepped to the front and interpreted, while the old Eskimo put Captain Vane through an examination of uncommon length and severity.
"Here," continued Lunette, "'s major's business letters, looks as though they'd been a-settin' in the dentist's chair, havin' all the old stumps extracted for a whole set of uppers and unders!" Lunette's comparison, though tragic, was not inapt.
No, he must have thought the storm was going to be a long one, and thinking that, must have tried, again to face it and paddle against it. In this attempt he has perished. Without doubt Lo and Unders and Oblooria are in the land of spirits." Eskimos of the far north, unlike the red men of the prairies, are prone to give way to their feelings.
And so at last, in the process of making the fortress impregnable, the big wall falls and "the unders" come into the citadel. Chairman Presson would not allow that the situation in that year of reform unrest was as bad as the "unders" seemed to think. But he was worried because he was finding all men liars.
But there was no up-and-moving spirit to the campaign. An old man writing letters even such an old man as General Varden Waymouth was in the estimation of his State is a small voice in the wilderness of politics. The Democrats had vociferous orators. Those orators had for text State extravagance, unjust taxation, and all the other charges "the unders" may bring against the reigning rulers.
I don't know why, he added, forestalling the question on Jane's lips, 'but somehow we have. Squirrel, let's take off these beastly bandages and get into flannels. We can't go in our unders. 'He WISHED to go to Atlantis, so he's got to go some time; and he might as well go with us, said Anthea. 'Will you come, said Anthea, 'to Atlantis with us?
Our giant did not deem it worth while to explain to his rather petulant father that the Englishmen were the reverse of starving, but he felt the importance of raising them in the old chief's opinion without delay, and took measures accordingly. "Blackbeard," he said, entering the Captain's hut and sitting down with a troubled air, "my father does not think much of you. Tell him that, Unders."
"Not so strange as you think," said Anders, who now, for the first time, mentioned the sending of the message to Poloeland. Black looks were turned on the interpreter, and several hands wandered towards boots in search of daggers, when the prime minister interfered. "You did not well, Unders, to act without letting us know," he said with grave severity.
"If it's the same to you, Miss," said Mrs. Symes in a thick rich voice, "I'll not be tried on afore a room full. If we are poor we can all be clean's what I say, and I keeps my unders as I keeps my outside. But not before persons as has real imitation lace on their petticoat bodies. I see them when I was a-nursing her with her fourth.
As we were having our confab, the Turkish guns from Asia were steadily pounding the ridge just South of Headquarters. One or two big fellows fell within 100 yards of the Mess. Going along the coast we were treated to an exciting spectacle. After several overs and unders they hit her three times running and set her on fire. Destroyers and trawlers rushed to her help.
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