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"If thicky galley keeps as she is going for another five minutes, Dick, she'll be stuck so hard and fast in that same mud that she'll have something else to think about than chasing us. Ah!" as the boat luffed round a small mangrove-covered island, and the galley was shut out from view, "there goes their last chance of hitting us with their footy ordnance with a murrain on them!"
"Said we were to be careful not to hurt him and his friends if they were beaten back." "No fear," said Punch; "we can tell them by their red handkerchiefs round their heads and their little footy guns. We've got nothing to do, then, yet." "For a while, Punch; but they are coming on fast. Hark at them!" For the firing grew louder and louder, and was evidently coming nearer.
His face was pale, and his manner bewildered. 'Hullo? what's the matter? said Jim. 'Where's my Margery? 'You've carried this footy game too far, my man! exclaimed Vine, with the air of a friend who has 'always told you so. 'You ought to have dropped it several days ago, when she would have come to 'ee like a cooing dove. Now this is the end o't! 'Hey! what, my Margery?
But he realized in time that the answers to them were fairly obvious to himself, and he heroically choked them back. Had he not that very morning been rebuked by his uncle for asking too many of what he called "footy" questions? But one burst forth now, in spite of himself.
I have stated that my father had fifteen children four boys and three girls by his first wife, and six boys and two girls by his second. Their names are as follows: Toney, Azerine, Duke and Dezine, of the girls, Violet, Priscilla and Lydia; those of the second wife as follows: Footy, Embrus, Caleb, Mitchell, Cuffee, and Jacob, who is the author, and the girls, Catherine and Retta.
I've been marching and fighting for six weeks with the Army, and every footy little village for fifty miles has come in rejoiceful; and more than that, I've got the key of the whole show, as you'll see, and I've got a crown for you! I told 'em to make two of 'em at a place called Shu, where the gold lies in the rock like suet in mutton.
Being a gentleman of patronage, and having bought several loads of lime o' me, and having given me all that splendid furniture, I could hardly refuse 'What, did he give you that? 'Ay sure to help me win ye. Margery covered her face with her hands; whereupon Jim stood up from the gate and looked critically at her. ''Tis a footy plot between you two men to snare me! she exclaimed.
I'm becoming convinced that the only way to get round a difficulty is to hit it in the head and walk over its flattened corpse." Roger grinned. "Shall I bat Bill Fish?" he asked. "Bill Fish might be worse. Don't blame you for feeling him a freak, but the schools in Jersey are footy affairs. If you want a fair sample of a school you'd have to try England proper. We've messed about here long enough.
"Footy" pronounced with a sneering expression of countenance conveys a sense of despicableness, even to those who do not know its exact definition, which may be taken as mean. Suppose a bunch of ripe nuts high up and almost out of reach; by dint of pressing into the bushes, pulling at the bough, and straining on tiptoe, you may succeed in "scraambing" it down.
On the page that contained my sketches of the Sidcup arm, showing the distribution of the snails' eggs on the bones, he lingered with a faint smile that made me turn hot and red. "Those sketches look rather footy," I said; "but I had to put something in my note-book." "You didn't attach any importance, then, to the facts that they illustrated?" "No. The egg-patches were there, so I noted the fact.
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