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Molly's eyes sparkled, but she gave a little shrug as she answered, "She won't care. She never troubles herself about me if I let her alone. "Hey? what? Not trouble herself? If she doesn't, who does?" and Mr. Bemis sat up as if this discovery was more surprising than the other. "I take care of myself and Boo, and she looks after you. The house goes any way." "I should think so!
Tom ran at him in return, and cried "Boo!" likewise, right in his face, and set the little dog upon him; and at his legs the dog went. At which, if you will believe it, the fellow turned tail, thunderbox and all, with a "Woof!" like an old sow on the common; and ran for his life, screaming, "Help! thieves! murder! fire! He is going to kill me! I am a ruined man!
Foley, "and I says to myself, I says, 'Pride'll bear a pinch, but she's going too far. If she thinks that she can squeedge those little tootsywootsies of 'ers into them boo " The door slammed violently and left him exchanging grins with Mr. Jobson. "How's the 'at?" he inquired. Mr. Jobson winked. "Bet you a level 'arf-dollar I ain't wearing it next Sunday," he said, in a hoarse whisper. Mr.
She had a direct interest in clearing up the question of a prior claim to Mr. Geoffrey Delamayn on the part of another woman. And she could only do that by getting the correspondence into her own hands. "Praise Providence for a' its mercies!" said Bishopriggs, getting on his feet again. "I've got twa strings, as they say, to my boo.
"He's getting a big lad." "Hout!" said the gracious father, "just his mother over again daurna say boo to a goose!"
God send we find better protection than thy carcass." "Boo! hoo!" blubbered Meroo the cook-boy. "Lo! Head-nurse! I could kill a whole army by poisoning their suppers." Head-nurse nodded faint approval. "Now, there is some sense in that, scullion, but what about that they may do supperless? If they should dare "
"She's a pretty, mild-looking thing," he said; "doesn't look as if she could say boo to a goose." "That's all you can tell," returned Briggs. "Deliver me from a light-complexioned woman. They're all the very devil. Mrs. Briggs says it's the same girl that read that composition that made such a stir at the high-school exhibition.
"I'm going to give you a thoroughly good licking, Bob, as soon as I get well," said Mark, a few mornings later, on being saluted as above. "I should like to see you do it." "You shall, my dear young friend. Last night it was rat; night before owl; now it's mole." "Well, so you are a jolly old mole. Regular night bird." "Didn't know a mole was a night bird." "Boo! clever. He's getting well, is he?
With Dorothy the scent and beauty of the flower, and the flavour of the fruit, had come late; but the fruit will keep, and the flower will not fall to pieces with the heat of an evening. "How marvellously your bride has changed since she has been here," said Mrs. MacHugh to Miss Stanbury. "We thought she couldn't say boo to a goose at first; but she holds her own now among the best of 'em."
He is speaking to spirits which you cannot see do not interrupt him or they will spring out of the air upon you and rend you limb from limb like that," and I jumped toward the great brute with a loud "Boo!" that sent him stumbling backward. I took a long chance, I realized, but if we could make any capital out of Perry's harmless mania I wanted to make it while the making was prime.
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