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It was a piece of scantling about twenty feet long, and not very thick; and to this he saw that he could fasten the pole that he had made up in the woods. These two pieces would make, when joined, a very good flag-staff. These he brought up to the bank. Then he collected an armful of dry chips and sticks, which he carried over to a spot near where the boat lay.
I will carry you, you armful of sweetness! yes, carry you safely down into the fairy grotto where the jewels are SUCH jewels, and all for you my love, my wife!" And I raised her from the ground as though she were a young, frail child. Whether she tried to resist me or not I cannot now remember.
She stretched a hand to him, closing her eyes again. "Swing me," she ordered. He aided the wind to give a wider sweep to the hammock. Io stirred restlessly. "You've broken the spell," she accused softly. "Weave me another one." "What shall it be?" He bent over the armful of books which he had brought out. "You choose this time." "I wonder," he mused, regarding her consideringly.
"Up in two minutes," he answered, and descended from the pilot house to shout down a low door leading from the deck into the engine room. "Harvey," he commanded, "fire her up!" A tall, good-natured negro reached the upper half of his body from the low door to seize an armful of the slabs piled along the narrow deck.
In answer to her appalled look on him, he murmured apologetically, "I didn't know I was getting so much on me. It sort of spattered." It was, of course, as she led the deplorable object towards the house that they encountered Eugenia under a green-lined white parasol, on the way back from the garden, carrying an armful of sweet-peas.
From the sheltered sides of the great rocks that lay tumbled about here and there, he gathered moss by the armful and carrying it to his house, made a thick soft bed for himself and the dog. His next thought was of a fire. He had no desire to eat more raw meat, besides he was not unmindful of the cheering influence of even a tiny blaze. The ground was everywhere over-run with creeping willows.
But the purchaser must remove the goods from the premises forthwith, to make room for three man-eating tigers, a cat-headed gorilla, and an armful of rattlesnakes." But the Showman passed on, in maiden meditation, fancy free, and being joined soon afterward by the Bear, who was absently picking his teeth, it was inferred that they were not unacquainted. The Ineffective Rooter
It was riderless, though on its back was a high-horned Mexican saddle, scarred and discolored by long usage. The man brought up the rear. He threw off pack and saddle, with an eye to camp location, and gave the animals their freedom to graze. He unpacked his food and got out frying-pan and coffee-pot. He gathered an armful of dry wood, and with a few stones made a place for his fire.
No more teachers and tyrants for me," and down went an armful of books with a bang on the table. "Oh, Zell!" cried Edith, "please be quiet; mother has a headache." "There, there, your baby will kiss it all away," and the irrepressible young creature threw her arms around the bundle that Mrs.
When Rose returned with an armful of plates Laguitte, though he did not care about women, began to scrutinize her and was amazed at seeing so ugly a creature. She was very short, very dark and slightly deformed, with a face like an ape's: a flat nose, a huge mouth and narrow greenish eyes. Her broad back and long arms gave her an appearance of great strength.
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