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At every step he looked all round him to see if perchance there was anything lurking behind the stones. He quite thought something moved away there in the ditch. Perhaps it was a wolf. 'It is better for me to beat the drum a little before I go there, thought Walter. Br-r-r, so he began to beat his drum. Then something moved again. Caw! caw! a crow flew up from the ditch.
"Br-r-r! but it's creepy here!" sighed Ruth, as the two young men got into the boat again. "Is that a light a lantern off there?" asked Alice, suddenly, as she sat up and pointed. For a moment they all hoped that it was, and they raised their voices in shouts: "Here we are!" "Look for our lantern!"
Malcolm, and Burnaby, that remarkable young man, sat down to the piano and for perhaps an hour made the chords sob to a strange music, mostly his own. "That's Bewsher!" he said when he was through, and had sat back on his stool, and was sipping a long-neglected cordial. "Br-r-r-!" shivered Mrs. Selden from her place by the fire. "How unpleasant you are!" Sir John looked troubled.
"Talk about a dark-brown taste!" or, "There was some kick to those cocktails last night," through their conversation. KITTY: "Br-r-r! I'm as nervous as a cat to-day." HESTER: "Naughty, naughty bad doggie to bite muvver's diamond ring." KITTY: "Leave it to you to land a pear-shaped diamond on your hooks." HESTER: "He fell for it, just like that!" KITTY: "You could milk a billiard ball."
"Oh, except that it was nailed down, or locked up, or had a policeman standing guard over it. I'd sure hate to have anything you wanted." "Well, you have," Doctor assured him, with a significant nod at Michael on the chair between them. "Br-r-r!" Daughtry shivered. "You give me the creeps. If I thought you really meant it, San Francisco couldn't hold me two minutes."
So the lad became the gardener's helper and dug and hoed in the garden all day. Now the King and Queen of that country had one fair daughter, and she was as pretty and as fresh as a rose. One day the gardener set the lad to spading under the Princess's window. She looked out, and there she saw him. "Br-r-r! But he is an ugly one," said she. Nevertheless she couldn't keep her eyes off him.
Thought you'd have the hysterics over that little old vanity mirror you broke that day out at the races." "Br-r-r! I hated it." "Lay easy, dearie. Nothing can touch you the way he's raking in the war contracts." "Great isn't it?" "Play for a country home, dearie. I always say real estate and jewelry are something in the hand. Look ahead in this game, I always say."
After he had gone, I slipped down-stairs on the banister, but the blinds were drawn in the parlour and dining-room, and it was so still that the only sound to be heard was the slow ticking of the great clock in the hall. When it gave a loud br-r-r and began to strike, I was so startled by the sudden noise that I nearly lost my balance and turned a somersault over the railing.
At every step he looked all round him to see if perchance there was anything lurking behind the stones. He quite thought something moved away there in the ditch. Perhaps it was a wolf. It is better for me to beat the drum a little before I go there, thought Walter. Br-r-r, so he began to beat his drum. Then something moved again. Caw! caw! a crow flew up from the ditch.
There they found the third royal welcome, and the gayest of entertainments. It had been an exciting day for all of them, and, as Kitty expressed it, they were all wound up like alarm-clocks. They would go off pretty soon with a br-r-r and a bang, and then run down.
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