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There was danger, of course, that some heavily squeezed ice-field might shoot up the beach, and plane off the top of the islet bodily; but that did not trouble Kotuko and the girl when they made their snow-house and began to eat, and heard the ice hammer and skid along the beach.
It was the girl, that sweet young thing that Brother Dick towed in here along last winter, some Senator's daughter that Skid had got chummy with when he was doin' his great quarterback act and havin' his picture printed in the sportin' extras. "How's that affair comin' on?" says I; for I ain't heard him mention her in quite some time. "It's all off," says he, shruggin' them wide shoulders of his.
Down to the left, there was a commotion and people were getting out of the way as a dozen men come pushing through, towing a contragravity skid with a 50-mm ship's gun on it. I began not liking the looks of things, and Glenn Murell, who had come up from his nap below, was liking it even less. He'd come to Fenris to buy tallow-wax, not to fight a civil war. I didn't want any of that stuff, either.
The rubber skeins pass through two little light wire rings fastened to the underside ends of HS2. At E and F thread is bound right round the rod. Should the nose of the machine strike the ground, the loop of cane will be driven along the underside of the rod and the shock be minimized. So adjust matters that the skid slides fairly stiff. Bearings.
She takes one look at Skid, another at the Senator, and then behind the old man she spies Mother.
What if her feet should skid and after ten or a dozen bell hops had boosted her up again they should find me underneath? Still I was in for it. No scoutin' around for back-number restaurants, as I'd planned at first. No, Bonnie had asked to be brought up-to-date. So she should, too. But I did wish she'd come to town in something besides that late Queen Victoria costume.
You think so much about desserts that you're going to desert the troop. We should worry." "If I write any stories I'll write them good and loud," Pee-wee shouted. "Open the cut-out of your fountain pen," Roy said, "and be sure to turn to the right whenever you come to the end of a page and look out you don't skid." "Maybe I'll write my remittances," Pee-wee said darkly.
He hooks onto a rope loop, the same hanging from a fore-and-aft taut steel line about seven feet above deck, and when her stern rises he lifts his feet and shoots and fetches up Bam! up against the fo'c's'le break. He is forward and wants to go aft he hooks onto the loop, waits for her bow to rise, lets himself go and there he is back to her skid deck. That sounds like rough work.
"She doesn't freeze her radiator on cold nights, she doesn't skid, and if I drop asleep she'll take me home and into my own barn, which is more than any automobile would do." "I'm going to sleep," he said comfortably. "Get Wallie Sayre I see he's back from some place again or ask a nice girl. Ask Elizabeth Wheeler. I don't think Lucy here expects to be the only woman in your life."
It did not matter what the argument was about the President, Roosevelt, the Kaiser, the world series any subject would do so long as it would grow into an argument. The rest of the crew could hear them threatening to bust each other's eyes out clear to the skid deck sometimes.
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