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All night he had been in an ecstasy of admiration, but now that was forgotten in a yearning love. The President had been part of his being, closer to him than wife or child. The boy sang "But I can't forget, until I die Ole Massa an' de blue-tailed fly." Stanton's eyes filled with hot tears. He had not wept since his daughter died. The breathing from the bed was growing faint.
The eggs are two in number, and oblong in form, of a pure white, half an inch in length, by about five-sixteenths of an inch in breadth. The phaon comet is considerably larger, but very similar to the former, except that the whole of its tail is of a crimson-red. The blue-tailed sylph has a wide range along the temperate regions of the Cordilleras.
And William thinks that he belongs to me. He cooks for me and forages. He shot two squirrels one morning and made me a Brunswick stew. But I couldn't stand that. You see the squirrels are my friends." I thought of the flying squirrels and the blue-tailed lizards and the old toad, and I knew how she felt. And I said so.
"Flapping away the blue-tailed fly, with a big red-and-yellow bandana, probably." "Playing the banjo for a lot of little niggers to dance to!" suggests the Brat.
It was a close afternoon, and the window was wide open. A bare-legged woman, in a short petticoat, stood in an indolent attitude leaning against a door-post opposite; a young man in low shoes, light blue stockings, buff knee-breeches, a blue-tailed coat with brass buttons, and a soft high-crowned felt hat, came strolling up the street with his hands in his pockets.
They were baked so hot that barefoot urchins hopped gingerly from one patch of shade to the next. In the numerous vacant lots rank jungles of weeds languished in the dry heat, and long blue-tailed lizards, veritable heat-sprites, emerged to frolic and doze on deserted sidewalks.
He read from a piece of wasp-nest paper: "No leaving the line to suck flowers, except at halting-time." The Blue-tailed Fly washed his hands and face over and over again.
There came the sound of far-away carts and horses, and a boy in the lane behind the house began to whistle, and then to sing. "When I was young," he sang "When I was young I used to wait At Magea'n table 'n' hand de plate An' pais de bottie when he was dry, An' brush away de blue-tailed fly." "It's his song," Stanton said to himself, and with the air came a rush of strange feelings.
"There's a couple o' blue-tailed birds scrappin' in a palm tree, sir," he submitted hopefully. "Ah," said St. George, "yes. There would be. Now, if you like," he gave his servant permission, "you may go to the festivals or the funeral games or wherever you choose to-day.
Billy and I felt dwarfed and insignificant, but we forgot it when we turned our eyes to the hills. The big door behind us and the blank windows were shut and shuttered close. There were flying squirrels on the roof and little blue-tailed lizards on the stone flagging in front of the house; and there was an old toad who used to keep us company.
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