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And he laughed with a joy of physical comfort, lying in his soft couch, while the other was making himself hoarse out there in the bushes, with his weapon ready and his eye alert. What a disappointment for the enemy! Febrer was almost lulled to sleep by these cries of challenge. He had barricaded the door as he had done the night before.
The bodies and limbs of the trees were alike covered and the boughs bent down under the heavy load of icy armor. Icicles, glistening like jewels, hung from the eaves of the house, from the fence rails, and from the limbs of our little fruit trees. The currant brush, the rose bushes, the briers and prickly ash were all encased in ice.
The bushes parted and two figures emerged a young man and a girl. Astonishment held the little group motionless, but the strangers, or so they appeared, stepped forward impulsively. "It's no wonder you don't remember me," said the girl impulsively, "since I was dressed very differently when you last saw me. I am Anita Benton the girl you rescued the other day."
Wherein Freckles Offers His Life for His Love and Gets a Broken Body To reach the tree was a more difficult task than McLean had supposed. The gang could approach nearest on the outside toward the east, but after they reached the end of the east entrance there was yet a mile of most impenetrable thicket, trees big and little, and bushes of every variety and stage of growth.
I said I never would permit myself to leave my family, and, if he was so determined, I should never be of any use to any one, for life to me was of no value if I am to be taken from my wife and four little children. At this he, with the other man, who came out of the bushes, ran towards me, but I outran them.
If the sound of that distant voice should only cease for a moment she was quite sure Henson would turn back. But he could hear it, and she knew that she was safe. Enid slipped past him into the bushes and gave a faint click of her lips. Something moved and whined, and two dark objects bounded towards her. She caught them together by their collars and cuffed them soundly.
"Here's the rope," called Stacy, hauling it from a clump of bushes where it had evidently been dropped. "Coil it and cast it up here," directed Tad. This done, he began hauling up the bundles that they made fast to it below. Finally, this was completed without accident. All hands took up their packages from that point and started along the winding trail that led up the mountain side.
He swung along through the bushes, forgetting the burden of his weapons and his pack of food. In truth, he swaggered a bit, but it was a gay and gallant swagger, and it became him. He walked for some distance, feeling that he had been changed from a seaman into a warrior, and then from a warrior into an explorer, which was his present character.
"Yes, he's all right, eatin' his supper, I reckon. But isn't this here your boat?" "Yes, it is," I said, "and I'm going home in it. You can take the other man." And, without saying another word, I picked up my oars, which I had brought from the bushes, jumped into my boat, and pushed off.
'Welcome to my kingdom! Have you slept well and eaten well and drunk well? he asked. 'Yes, indeed we have, said both the girls, 'but tell us... and they wanted to ask who the old man was, but were afraid to. 'I will tell you who I am, said the old man; 'I am the raspberry king, who reigns over all this kingdom of raspberry bushes, and I have lived here for more than a thousand years.
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