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She walked with a raking grace which became her as wings become a bird or a long swinging stride a racer. The twilit woods held no fears for her: imagination never peopled Jane's world with bogies.
Nikolai crushed with all his might an old decapitated cock's head, which lay in the gutter, with the heel of his boot, until it was as flat as a penny. When the terror of bogies and the devil in the coal-cellar had lost its power, one of Mrs.
If it is not always light, I will grope my way through the shadows; but my one prayer and my one effort shall be to prevent other people suffering through me?" "Oh, Bessie, that is beautiful!" "You will find nothing else will help you to fight your bogies; do try it, darling. Be merciful to your poor little self; 'respect the possible angel in you, as Mr. Robertson said.
And yet they smiled, the presence of the child still enwrapping them. "Excuse these domesticities," said the Bishop, "but there was such woe and lamentation just before you came. And childish griefs go deep. Bogies of all kinds have much to answer for!" Then the Bishop's smile disappeared. He beckoned Meynell to a chair, and sat down himself.
'John didn't like going home in the dark like, said the baker, with his little joke. 'So I just come along to drive away the bogies. 'The more the merrier; the more the merrier. Ruby'll have enough for the two o' you, I'll go bail. So John Crumb's afraid of bogies; is he? The more need he to have some 'un in his house to scart 'em away.
Thus, animism is in some directions little developed, so far as we can see, among the Australian aborigines; but from those who know them best we learn that they believe in innumerable spirits and bush bogies, which wander, especially at night, and can be held at bay by means of fire; with this belief may be compared the ascription in European folk belief of prophylactic properties to iron.
We are now witnessing one of the most remarkable, one of the most suggestive, signs of the time a time which is, I verily believe, teeming with social mange a time, as I have said above, of the most stupendous importance in the history of mankind. We read constantly, in the paper and everywhere, fears, prophecies, bogies of approaching revolution. Approaching! Fears of approaching revolution!
"There was bogies, grandfather! there was! and Nannie said I told lies and I didn't tell lies." "Darling, there aren't bogies anywhere but I'm sure you didn't tell lies. What did you think they were like?" "Grandfather, they was all black and they jumped and wiggled and spitted o-o-oh!" And the child went off in another wail, at which moment the Bishop perceived Meynell.
All this kind of talk is based on that complete forgetting of what a child is like which has been the firm foundation of so many educational schemes. If you keep bogies and goblins away from children they would make them up for themselves. One small child in the dark can invent more hells than Swedenborg.
"Ha! ha! they will eat you, and we will eat them;" and the otter laughed such a wicked, cruel laugh as you may hear them do sometimes; and the first time that you hear it you will probably think it is bogies. "What are salmon?" asked Tom. "Fish, you eft, great fish, nice fish to eat. They are the lords of the fish, and we are lords of the salmon;" and she laughed again.
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