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Instantly he released his own board and saw it scoot for the surface. He reversed his course and swam rapidly back. The obstruction he had cleared was dead ahead. And there were fish! So many that they seemed like a swarm of flies around it. The biggest was not more than five inches long. Then he saw Scotty. His friend was fastening the float line to a projection! Rick's heart leaped.
With a hoarse bark a black dog rolled like a ball under the horse's feet, then another white one, then another black one there must have been a dozen of them. Yergunov looked to see which was the biggest, swung his whip and lashed at it with all his might. A small, long-legged puppy turned its sharp muzzle upwards and set up a shrill, piercing howl.
One was to Van, with Beth's request; the other was, of course, to her brother. Bostwick met the proud old beau at the corner of the street. "Say, Uncle, what did I tell you," said Billy at once. "This time it's the biggest errand yet." Bostwick had wondered if he might not catch Mr. Stitts in some such service as he boasted now, and his wit was worthy of his nature.
The biggest one I ever killed measured between seven and eight feet from the points of his hoofs to his shoulders, and the antlers were four feet and nine inches from tip to tip. He was a monster a regular jing-swizzler! A mighty queer way I got him too! I'll tell you all about it some other time." "Oh! you must," answered Garst.
There was nothing in the world which could make up for what was it he had called it? the biggest thing in Life. Suddenly she felt his hands on her shoulders; she felt them stealing down her arms. She felt herself lifted up towards him, and with a little gasp of utter surrender she turned and looked at him with shining eyes. "Derek, my darling," she whispered. "Que je t'adore. . . ."
The Decennial Census, although it is the biggest part of the census work, is only one of its many branches, and then there are always other matters being looked after, like the Quinquennial Census of Manufactures, and such numberings as those of the Religious Bodies and the Marriage and Divorce Statistics of a few years ago." "I understood the Bureau had regular work all the year round?"
"It's setting in a churn," replied the little girl, without looking up. "Is it trimmed?" said her mother. The little girl acquiesced. "It's all ready to light." "S'pose those Dutchman's young ones brought some things over to put on," ventured the biggest brother, shaking the popper violently to hide his concern. The little girl sighed heavily.
So, you found the money in the creek, did you? I was coming after it in a day or so. What have you done with it?" "Restored it to the bank, whose property it was," came the quiet answer. "You do not suppose I would keep it?" "I worked for that money and only for my pals getting frightened I would have had more. We left the biggest part behind."
This last venture, the biggest and most difficult of all, I then decided to undertake, that I might be the fitter mate for the heiress bless her! Oh, Adrian, man, could you have seen her sweet tearful face that night, you would understand that I could not rest upon such a parting.
And there were big pieces of the Statehouse lying around in the tall weeds. And such greeny green grass just everywhere. And, and, oh, the biggest trees. So many, all close together. Papa said it was like Ohio. Oh, so big. I never knew trees could grow so big, nor so many of them all together." Little Thaine spread his short arms to show how wondrous large these trees were.
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