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"That 'ud be tellin', wudn't it?" "I'll keep it awfully secret," pleaded William. "I'll never tell anyone." Mr. Blank shook his head. "What yer want ter know fer, anyway?" he said. William answered eagerly, his eyes alight. "'Cause I'd like to do jus' the same when I grow up." Mr. Blank flung back his head and emitted guffaw after guffaw of unaffected mirth. "Oh 'ell," he said, wiping his eyes.
Palaeolithic man made his implements of any kind of hard and heavy stone, and it is probable that he occasionally selected iron ore for the purpose. An attempt to chip it with flint would cause sparks that might fall on inflammable material, and set it alight. Little intelligence would be needed to turn this discovery to account.
The curtains very imperfectly kept out the rain, and we were in continual fear of an upset. At last the vehicle went down on one side, and all the Irish emigrants tumbled over each other and us, with a profusion of "Ochs," "murders," and "spalpeens." The driver composedly shouted to us to alight; the hole was only deep enough to sink the vehicle to the axletree.
"Let his excellency the Stadtholder drive up to the door, for it is just impossible for the count to alight here in this mud." But the coachman only shook his head proudly, in token of refusal, and darted a look full of inexpressible contempt upon the Stadtholder's presumptuous driver. "Drive out of the way!" shouted the count's coachman.
If, while sitting on the porch on a warm summer evening, mosquitoes begin to annoy, let one of them at least serve to show his method of procedure before he is destroyed. Allow the creature to alight upon the back of your hand and slowly raise the arm until the eye looking at near range can see the head of the mosquito, which, by the way, is sure to be a female.
The whole tribe, seventeen hundred in number, assembled to see the execution, but hardly were the fires alight when a sound like thunder rolled beneath their feet, and with a hideous crack and groan the earth opened and nearly every soul was engulfed in a fathomless and smoking pit-all, indeed, save two, for a couple of young braves who were on the edge of the crowd flung themselves flat on the heaving ground and remained there until the earthquake wave had passed.
The ride back was gay, and when they stopped at the house of the Joplin man, who was their host, all three were still in nervously high spirits. A negro servant came out for the horses, and Steering helped Miss Madeira to alight. The girl had drawn off her driving gauntlets, and the ungloved hand that she gave him was scratched and scarred across its brown back.
There is much need for thee to haste." "Who art thou?" "I am an Italian knight who, though thy Lord's enemy, hath reason to love him. Wilt thou go?" "I will do as thou sayest." "Alight, then. Thy horse is mine." "For ransom?" "No." The Sheik dismounted grumblingly, and was walking off when the cheering of the Greeks stung him to the soul. "A chance O Christian, another chance to-day to-morrow!"
This capital little arrangement is somewhat interfered with by the fact that a goodly proportion of the male population present have already become cognizant of our presence, and are standing in white-robed groups about their tents trying with hand-shaded eyes to penetrate the secret of my strange appearance. Nevertheless, I ride ahead and alight at the entrance to the chief's tent.
He carried his benevolence to the point of coming to meet me at the little station at which I was to alight, and my heart beat very fast as I saw his handsome face, surmounted with a soft wide-awake and which I knew by a photograph long since enshrined on my mantel-shelf, scanning the carriage-windows as the train rolled up.
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