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The cariole struck against a stone and tilted him out on the road. He was a good deal surprised, but said nothing. Another little fellow, not more than six or seven years of age a pretty fair-haired child was sent with me over a very wild and broken stage of the journey. He was newly dressed in a suit of gray frieze with brass buttons, and was evidently a shining light at home.
I gave Idelia a bag of buttons to play with, and because Ivanora hadn't eaten much breakfast I gave her a dish of molasses and some bread. I knew, of course, she'd mess herself, but I thought it would keep her contented. And it did!" she cried, going off into such a peal of laughter that the reporter had to join. "What'd she do, Molly?" asked Lionel.
"I know you did." "Then what the devil are you doing here alone?" cried Raffles. "Why didn't you bring along a couple of good men and true from Scotland Yard? Here I am, Mr. Levy, entirely at your service. Why don't you give me in charge?" Levy chuckled consumedly ventriloquously behind his three gold buttons and his one diamond stud. "P'r'aps I'm not such a bad sort as you think," said he.
It was almost with dismay that she found herself covering the ground between the Hall and Will's home and saw the shaded lane stretching to the little farm adjoining Sol Peterkin's. As she passed the store, Mrs. Spade, who was selling white china buttons to Eliza Field, leaned over the counter and stared in amazement through the open window.
"That, comrade, may be easier said than done. If they're deserters and they must be, if they're soldiers at all they'll take precious good care not to let any one come near them, if they can help it. The escort that accompanies the train will account for their not being along with it. If they've caught a glimpse of my buttons, they'll be cached by this time." "They only seed our heads.
Presently, with a false show of indifference, he set about playing the moccasin-game, which consists of placing buttons, bullets, and anything small which comes handy, into an empty moccasin, shaking them up together, and guessing the number which the shoe contains. It is a gambling game which, in earlier days, was wont to cause much bloodshed and ruin among the buffalo-runners of the plains.
This was open down the front and back, the weight of the trousers on the belt holding it firmly on the square shoulders of the wearer, thus precluding the necessity of collar buttons.
The Rebel Surgeon who was examining the sick for exchange saw the buttons and admired them very much. The boy stepped back, borrowed a knife from a comrade, cut the buttons off, and handed them to the Doctor. "All right, sir," said he as his itching palm closed over the coveted ornaments; "you can pass," and pass he did to home and friends.
And and not enough buttons for his clothes." Guida smiled. She guessed whom Carterette meant. "Has Monsieur Detricand more buttons now?" she asked with a little whimsical lift of the eyebrows. "Ah bidemme, yes, and gold too, all over him like that!" She made a quick sweeping gesture which would seem to make Detricand a very spangle of buttons. "Come, what do you think he's a general now.
Now she blushed when she heard of the buttons of her frock which was only done because of tightness, and showed how long she must have worn it; but as to the double thread, she was sure that nothing of that sort could have happened.
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