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CHAPTER XXII — THE SIEGE OF THRUMS
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The man in the moon is a native of Thrums, who was put up there for hacking1 sticks on the Sabbath, and as he sails over the Den2 his interest in the bit placey is still sufficient to make him bend forward and cry "Boo!" at the lovers. When they jump apart you can see the aged3 reprobate4 grinning. Once out of sight of the den, he cares not a boddle how the moon travels, but the masterful crittur enrages5 him if she is in a hurry here, just as he is cleverly making out whose children's children are courting now. "Slow, there!" he cries to the moon, but she answers placidly6 that they have the rest of the world to view to-night. "The rest of the world be danged!" roars the man, and he cranes his neck for a last glimpse of the Cuttle Well, until he nearly falls out of the moon.
Never had the man such a trying time as during the year now before him. It was the year when so many scientific magnates sat up half the night in their shirts, spying at him through telescopes. But every effort to discover why he was in such a fidget failed, because the spy-glasses were never levelled at the Thrums den. Through the whole of the incidents now to tell, you may conceive the man (on whom sympathy would be wasted) dagoning horribly, because he was always carried past the den before he could make head or tail of the change that had come over it.
The spot chosen by the ill-fated Stuart and his gallant8 remnant for their last desperate enterprise was eminently9 fitted for their purpose. Being round the corner from Thrums, it was commanded by no fortified10 place save the farm of
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hacking
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n.非法访问计算机系统和数据库的活动 | |
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turnip
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