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"Take this glass, sir, and you'll see the lee quarter-boat davit-tackles are overhauled. That means they got at least one boat in the water. To my mind she's derelict." "Yard-arm tackles rigged and overhauled, too," said Captain Image. "She'll have carried a big boat on the top of that house amidships, and that's gone, too.

"Uncle," says he, "how will those scuppernongs be about now on the big arbor in front of Uncle Phil's?" "Bless you, Mistuh Robin," says old Noah, "they'll be dead ripe by now, and there's jes' doodlins of 'em. Miss Peggy Culpepper, she'll be mighty lonesome, a pickin' of 'em all by herself." "Humph!" says Robin, tintin' up. "Think so, do you?"

The government was the stronger for training its scholars as it trained its soldiers; the big businesses were the stronger for manufacturing mind as they manufactured material.

"Looks as though history liked to repeat itself," Jack mused, as he walked back home after parting company with Big Bob; "only in this case it's the football eleven that's liable to be weakened if Bob's father takes him out; and we never could scare up a fullback equal to him if we raked old Chester with a fine-tooth comb. So I certainly hope it'll all come out right yet, I surely do!"

Bee was buzzing around the basswood blossoms, and Robert Robin said: "Mrs. Bee, you are a very good friend of mine! Please fly down there and sting that big cat for me! It will only take you a moment and it will be a great favor!" But Mrs. Bee was busy filling her bag with honey, and had no time to bother, stinging cats. Mister Jim Crow came flying past and Robert Robin called to him: "Oh!

Luk slidin' on a greased pole." "Comin' so luk the devil they did n't dast git 'n er way," said Thurst. "We wus all rippin' th' air 'ith them air joemightyful big sabres, tew," D'ri went on. "Hed a purty middlin' sharp edge on us. Stuck out luk a haystack right 'n' left." He began bringing wood as he sang the chorus of his favorite ballad: Li toorul I oorul I oorul I ay, etc.

I've no chick nor child of my own, and I mean Rhoda to have a big slice of what I've got to leave." Tom did not catch the last words clearly. "My aunt's sister married a Mr. James Sampson," he hurried to say. "Was he related to Miss Sampson's father?" "Ah, that was Jim. He got lost in the bush, poor fellow. He had his girl with him. Yes, he was Jack's brother.

In any trial of strength he was more than the equal of any other member of the "Big Four," as the four young men berthing in the cabin called themselves, borrowing the name from a combination of railroads in the West. He was well trained as an oarsman, and the second officer was satisfied that he was doing his full share of the work. As Mr.

It has short, broken-off limbs, and little bears like to run up and down on it, and big bears, too, for it gives them exercise and keeps them in practice for climbing real trees. "When Reddie had the idea, he ran out and looked at his bear-ladder; then he ran back and looked at the jug.

Margaret took them up and pinched the leather and stroked them. "My, but they are fine!" she cried. Wesley picked up one and slowly turned it in his big hands. He glanced at his foot and back to the shoe. "It's a little bit of a thing, Margaret," he said softly. "Like as not I'll have to take it back. It seems as if it couldn't fit."