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He drowned in three foot of water up above the bend, that's what he did. Come on. Let's be movin'. It'll be hotter'n blazes by eleven o'clock, and you oughtn't to be walkin' in the sun." The young man settled himself a little more comfortably against the tree. "I think I'll stay here in the shade for a while longer. Don't be uneasy. I shan't go popping into the water the minute your back's turned.
"I'm turnin' the whole farm over to you to look after like it was your own while I'm away," said he, "and I'm doing it with the feeling that it's in worthy hands. I know you're not the boy to shirk on me when my back's turned, for you never tried to do it to my face. You stand by me, Joe, and I'll stand by you; you'll never lose anything by it in the end.
'We'n you're back's at the wall, you do the best you can, don't you? began the clerk. 'I s'y that, because I 'appen to know there's a prejudice against it; it's considered vulgar, awf'ly vulgar. He unrolled the handkerchief and showed a four-ounce jar. 'This 'ere's vitriol, this is, said he. The captain stared upon him with a whitening face. 'This is the stuff! he pursued, holding it up.
"Where alive has that lazy, good-for-nothing boy taken, himself off to now, I wonder, and the weeds I left him to pull in the garden not half done yet; but it's just like him, as soon's my back's turned to skulk off in this way. I'll put a stop to this work one of these days, see if I don't. Its likely he's hiding in some out-of-the-way corner with a book in his hand as usual."
A voice pierced Helen's deep dreams and, awaking, she found Bo shaking and calling her. "Are you dead?" came the gay voice. "Almost. Oh, my back's broken," replied Helen. The desire to move seemed clamped in a vise, and even if that came she believed the effort would be impossible. "Roy called us," said Bo. "He said hurry.
"I left her hard at work. They're all the same when my back's turned. A fellow needs to have eyes at the tip of his tail." "Are you suffering from that Leverhulme six-hour-working-day sort of feeling?" asked Richard politely of Sarah Brown, in the manner of an advertisement of a cure for indigestion, as he approached.
So far, owing to great care on my part, they think of God as a kind of walrus; but now that my back's turned Ridley," she demanded, swinging round upon her husband, "what shall we do if we find them saying the Lord's Prayer when we get home again?" Ridley made the sound which is represented by "Tush."
Some player, usually one who has confidence in himself, shouts as he makes the leap, and just before his feet touch the ground: "Spanish Fly!" At once the fun begins in wild earnest. The boy who just shouts is regarded as leader. The second time he makes the leap he cries: "Torchlight" and makes the jump with only one hand on First Back's shoulders, while he waves his hat in the other.
'Why, Mr Belton, I didn't think you could be so furious! 'Can't I? When my back's up, it is up! But it isn't up yet. 'And I hope it won't be up while you remain in Somersetshire. 'I won't answer for that. There's Stovey's empty cart standing just where it stood yesterday; and he promised he'd have it home before three today. My back will be up with him if he doesn't mind himself.
When Amos came up the path at a half after six, his dinner pail in his hand, he found Lydia flat on her back on the little front porch. Her curly head was wet with perspiration; face, hands and blouse were black. The baby sat beside her, trying to get Florence Dombey to sleep. "Well," said Amos, looking down on his family, "how do you like it, Lydia?" "It's great! My back's broken!
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