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The old horse himself he bore the peaceable name of William Penn merely gave one of the comforting switches of his bob-tail with which he brushed away the thought of any small annoyance, and stopped a moment to nibble at the wayside cane mixed with purple blossoming peavine.

Cleburne himself was leading us in person, so that we would not fire upon his men, who were then inside the Yankee line. His sword was drawn. I heard him say, "Follow me, boys." He ran forward, and amid the blazing fires of the Yankee guns was soon on top of the enemy's works. He had on a bob-tail Confederate coat, which looked as if it had been cut out of a scrimp pattern.

"What else?" "Spit on my new shoes," reddening. Papa Jack drew his mustache down between his lip and teeth. "Hm! He did, eh? What else?" "Said 'Bob-tail, bob-cat," Papa Jack looked puzzled. "Said I was Bob, bob-tail, bob-cat," explained Bob. "Oh!" Papa Jack seemed to see light. "And then he struck you?" A nod once more. Mr.

They are at one point of general information; namely, they all know what you have just told them, and will none of them know it by next time. I call it the rag-tag and bob-tail class. John says they are like forced tulips. They won't blossom simultaneously. He can't get them all to one standard of reading." Mr. Lindsay laughed and said,

He has a bob-tail coat and black kersey sit-upon-'ems, and a vesky with glass buttons, and all covered with embroidery. Such a dandy! What's your father?" I did not answer for a few moments, and he looked at me sharply. "Dead," I said in a low voice. "Oh!" said my companion softly too. "I didn't know." "He was shot out in India Chillianwallah," I said. "Died of his wounds." "Oh, I am sorry!

March's eyes still dwelt upon Christine's face; it was full of a furtive wildness. She seemed to be keeping a watch to prevent herself from looking as if she were looking for some one. "Do you know," Mrs. March said to her husband as they jingled along homeward in the Christopher Street bob-tail car, "I thought she was in love with that detestable Mr.

"Have you seen them two fly-up-the-creeks?" Billy Tatham, the stage-driver, asked of Uncle Ephraim Tipple as he was driving him down to the boat-landing. "No, what do they look like?" "The He-one had on a two-inch hat with a green ribbon and wore a white bob-tail coat that 'bout reached to the top o' his pants. Looks like he lived on water-crackers and milk, his skin's that white.

A full house wins so much as six hundret francs t'e tay." "Yes," assented Rushford, "a full house is a mighty nice thing. But now you seem to be holding only a bob-tail." "A pop-tail?" "No matter go ahead with the story. You say it costs you a hundred dollars a day to keep your doors open. What's the heaviest item?" "T'e greates' item at present iss t'e chef.

Olive Street, now paved with hot granite and disfigured by trolley wires, was a country road then. Green trees took the place of crowded rows of houses and stores, and little "bob-tail" yellow cars were drawn by plodding mules to an inclosure in a timbered valley, surrounded by a board fence, known as Lindell Grove.

For the briefest of periods, there was a look of keen disappointment on the faces of the Cloudy Mountain boys as they gazed upon the receding figures of their sworn enemies; but almost in as little time as it takes to tell it there was a tumultuous lining up at the bar, the flat surface of which soon resounded with the heavy blows dealt it by the fists of the men desirous of accentuating the rhythm when roaring out: "Gwine to run all night, Gwine to run all day, Bet my money on a bob-tail nag, Somebody bet on the bay!"