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unhand me, grey-beard loon!" Eftsoons his hand dropt he.

Peace, thou crazy loon, cried the Manxman, seizing him by the arm.

He had hardly touched the paper with the point of his twig when a low, wild peal of laughter broke out at a measureless distance away, and growing ever louder, seemed approaching ever nearer; a soulless, heartless, and unjoyous laugh, like that of the loon, solitary by the lakeside at midnight; a laugh which culminated in an unearthly shout close at hand, then died away by slow gradations, as if the accursed being that uttered it had withdrawn over the verge of the world whence it had come.

"I'll teach you to put your hands on my boy, you beast," roared the sa- loon keeper, who, tired of beating the master, had begun to kick him about the yard.

He was a craven loon. Those pictures of glory were piteous things.

As for the pumpkinheaded loon who accompanies you, let him sink or swim it won't matter greatly which."

Robin told me shortly he was sorry he had put himself about, turned his back upon me without a sign of salutation, and as he went towards the door, I could hear him telling Duncan that I was "only some kinless loon that didn't know his own father." Angry as I was at these words, and ashamed of my own ignorance, I could scarce keep from smiling that a man who was under the lash of the law (and was indeed hanged some three years later) should be so nice as to the descent of his acquaintances.

"Crazy ez a loon when he come aboard; but I'll say he's sobered up consid'ble sence.

He took the measles when he was forty-five and was crazy as a loon with them, and the doctor ordered them to give him a dose of brandy.

"Crazy as a loon," William sneered in open aside to the rest.

“Haven’t I killed loons before now, lad, that dive at the flash?” returned the hunter.