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The new DistrictJudge returned Colonel Starbottles profoundly punctilious
bow.
Buller tied a handkerchief on his head, and Mr. Dont jump out ina runaway;
that is the way to get hurt.
I have overruled the objection, repeated the
Judge; you may go on.
Podington was on the shore and running at the top of
hisspeed toward the horse. And when may I have the pleasure of seeing her?
You
havelost your hat and you look as if you had been in a wrestling-match. Her
eyesagain answered that she expected he would, but she added, simply,When? He
paused, and to his surprise her listlesscompany face lit up with an adorable
smile. The new DistrictJudge returned Colonel Starbottles profoundly
punctilious bow. I have overruled the objection, repeated the Judge; you may go
on.
Why dont you take off your life-preserver and let thatother man put it on
his head? Dont try to stand up; hold on to the boom andcreep forward.
Dont jump
out ina runaway; that is the way to get hurt.
Mister, cried one of them, you
neednt be afraid of tumbling intothe canal. The Judge cast an inquiring look at
Colonel Starbottle.
Such avariety of scenery, such an opportunity for walks and
rambles! Your obedient servants, STARBOTTLE AND STRYKER.
The Colonel held his
breath as the longlashes were raised to his level.
Breach-of-promise cases were
his peculiar aversion.
In the course of a day or two, said the Colonel,
quickly.
At the same moment he heard a step in the passage,and the door opened
to Adoniram K.
The community were left to the moreostentatious information of
the defendants counsel, Messrs.
They were the damning, incontrovertibleproofs
of the perfidy of the defendant.
You havelost your hat and you look as if you
had been in a wrestling-match.
I have, replied the other; I wrestled with that
tiller and I wonderit didnt throw me out.
The young girl, however, broke the
silence withoutlooking up.
The Colonel spent that afternoon in making
diplomatic inquiries.
The man recoiled,dropping the useless fragment. Bullers
sailboat into propercondition, and for ten days Mr.
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