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It was a terrible ordeal, and they had, moreover, made such a fire in the stove, that the room seemed quite red hot. "It is dreadfully hot here!" observed the first brother. "Yes," replied the Princess, "my father is going to roast young pullets today." "Baa!" there he stood like a baa-lamb.
Why, you poor, credulous baa-lamb of a trustful idiot, when you let me go off to file them papers, don't you see you give me the chance to rob you of a mine worth, just as she stands, 'most any amount of money you chance to mention? Not you! You let me ride off without a misgivin'." "Pish!" remarked Stan scornfully. "Twaddle! Tommyrot! Pickles!" Pete wagged a solemn forefinger.
"He's a good little fella enough, as little fellas goes. When you know how to handle'm which is right side up with care. Him an' me come to an understandin' yesterday mornin', an' he's as meek an' gentle as a baa-lamb ever since. I'll undertake you'll have no trouble with Radcliffe." "Is this the wonderful plan you spoke of?
I've 'eard people say that if you have a clear conscience nothing can hurt you. They didn't know my missus. I got up at last and walked on to the jetty, and the woman, wot was sitting on the deck of the John Henry, kept calling out: "Bill!" like a sick baa-lamb crying for its ma.
In clarion tones that made themselves heard above the din Emily Davis was advertising an auction of her animals, beginning with "one perfectly good baa-lamb." "Hear him baa," cried Emily, "and you'll forget that his legs are wobbly." "This way to the Punch and Judy," shouted Barbara Gordon hoarsely through a megaphone. "Give the children a season of refined and educating amusement.
I've 'eard people say that if you have a clear conscience nothing can hurt you. They didn't know my missus. I got up at last and walked on to the jetty, and the woman, wot was sitting on the deck of the John Henry, kept calling out: "Bill!" like a sick baa-lamb crying for its ma.
Now that's a tasty little bit; and he'll soon come when he's hungry, I tell myself. Ah, yes, our young days, they're soon gone. And you stand there and stare like a baa-lamb and the girl down there is nodding at you fit to crick her neck! Yes, the men are a queer race; they pretend they wouldn't dare and yet who is it causes all the misfortunes?"
Malt, "that reminds you of the world as it appeared about the time you built it for yourself every day with blocks, and made it lively with animals out of your Noah's Ark. I can't say what it is, but that's a sample of it 'New Houses! What a baby baa-lamb name for a town! It would settle the municipality in our part of the world any railway would make a circuit of fifty miles to avoid it!" Mr.
"Don't I love all dagos?" asked Monkey. "Sich a pretty little way with 'em they got. Same as a baa-lamb in the meadow 'mong the buttercups." "Then now I'll tell you something for yourself," said Joses. "He loves all the English owners, jockeys, and crowd. But he loves you best." "Never!" cried Monkey, greatly moved. "Then I'm the man what won the Greaser's Heart. It's too much."
I know Naboth's vineyard is as painted as Noah's Ark. I know Nathan's ewe-lamb is really a woolly baa-lamb on a wooden stand. That is why I could not take them away. I did not mind so much, as long as I thought of men's things as their valuables; but I dare not put a hand upon their vanities. "After a moment I added abruptly, `Only saints and sages ought to be robbed.
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