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For it was one of her dreams, perhaps the six hundred and seventy-ninth in the series, that one day she would sit at a desk answering innumerable telephone calls with projecting jaw, as millionaires do on the movies, and crushing rivals like blackbeetles in order that, after being reviled by the foolish as a heartless plutocrat, she might hand a gigantic Trust over to the Socialist State. "Mr.
Strange beetles beetles from other families, with no claim on us whatever got to hear about the thing, and came in hordes, and tried to rob our blackbeetles of it. By the end of a week we had lured into our kitchen every beetle that wasn't lame for miles round. MacShaughnassy said it was a good thing. We should clear the suburb at one swoop.
You might, perhaps, talk in that way before you'd money in the Bank; but it doesn't at all become you now. The carriage and the family arms! We've a country house as well as the Chalkpits! and though they praise their place for a little paradise, I dare say they've quite as many blackbeetles as we have, and more too. The place quite looks it! "Our carriage and our arms!
And this, in spite of a universal inference that he was dead, and that his body was flavouring whitebait below bridge. This did not interfere with a belief on the part of the crew of the patrolling boat known to Michael owing to a popular chant of boys of his own age as "two blackbeetles and one water-rat," that his corpse would float up one day near the place of his disappearance.
Why, they don't put any more kittens in my desk now they've found out I like cats. So they put blackbeetles do you like blackbeetles, eh? Well, you'll come to beetles in time.
A numerous company of rats and mice, remarkably fond of physical exercise, had fitted the place up as a gymnasium for themselves; and our kitchen, after ten o'clock, was turned into a blackbeetles' club. They came up through the floor and out through the walls, and gambolled there in their light-hearted, reckless way till daylight. The rats and mice Amenda did not object to.
Whatever it was he did not say it, for the Phoenix interrupted him, and all breathed more freely as it spoke. 'I gather, it said, 'that you have some tidings of a fatal nature to communicate to our degraded black brothers who run to and fro for ever yonder. It pointed a claw at the cupboard, where the blackbeetles lived. 'Canary TALK, said the Lamb joyously; 'go and show mammy.
We think of bugs and fleas, which seem so indecent in their lives that they are made a jest by the vulgar and the nice people do their best to avoid mentioning them. There are some women who will make a face at the mere name of any of these creatures. Those of us who have never felt this repulsion at least, against spiders and blackbeetles cannot but wonder how far it is natural.
If to 'Cockatoos and kingfishers! where are my shooting-boots? an equally violent voice from below replied, 'Bats and blackbeetles! look for them yourself! some stronger vent for the steam of hot temper would have to be found, and words of any kind would soon cease to relieve the feelings. Isobel, I have had long and hard experience, and your ideas are not new ones to me.
So he sat tight and waited, and then Teddy Pegram and his dog and his air-gun crept out of the woods with a load of ten birds. They roosted in the spruce firs, you understand, and 'twas as easy to slay them as blackbeetles, for Teddy's eyes, helped by the moon, marked 'em above his head quick enough.
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