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Wallie passed the pencil to him. "And don't leave off a cipher by mistake." "I refuse to be coerced!" Canby declared, defiantly. "I'll keep my word, but I didn't say when." "I'm setting the date," Wallie replied, coolly, "and that's just four minutes and a half from now," taking out his watch. "If I haven't got the check by then you'll pay for those locoed horses, too, or I'll throw you back."
In Canby's eyes there was something like a glint of amusement. Wallie went on guilelessly, finding it an extreme relief, after his enforced silence, to have an ear to talk into. "The fact is," confidentially, "I may not look it but I am a good deal of a tenderfoot." "Indeed?" Canby raised a politely surprised eyebrow.
Canby and such other officers as they could get into their power, but Meacham was determined to succeed, as that was the only means of getting back his job as Superintendent of Indian Affairs. Accordingly Rev. Dr. Thomas of Oakland and Mr. Dyer, Indian agent at Klamath, were appointed to fill the vacancies. In the meantime Gen.
"Next Thursday at two o'clock there will be a stock sale at my place and I have no doubt that you will be able to pick up something there for your purpose." "That's splendid!" Wallie cried, delightedly. "I shall seek you out, Mr. Canby, and ask you to assist me in making a selection.
The last-named department was so far away that Sherman could not communicate with it very readily after starting on his spring campaign, and it was therefore soon transferred from his military division to that of the Gulf, where General Canby, who had relieved General Banks, was in command.
The Ross claim is based upon the assertions set forth in a paper read in 1870 by Mr. William Canby before the members of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania. It was claimed in the paper or essay that from traditions existing in the Ross family, Betsy Ross, the grandmother of Mr. Canby on his mother's side, was the maker and designer of the first American flag, and that she lived on Arch street.
Canby won't mind taking charge of it for you until you feel like putting it on." "Lord! Don't make such a fuss, Packer. Put it on me put it on me!" He extended his arms behind him, and was enveloped solicitously and reverently in the garment. "Confound him!" said Potter good-humouredly, as they came out into the lobby. "It is chilly; he's usually right, the idiot!"
My Uncle Enos was for prosecuting them, but the Widow Canby said that the future would bring its own punishment, and on this we rested. "And now about my board," began Uncle Enos, during a dull in the conversation. "I must find a boarding-house for after to-night." "Wouldn't you like to stay with the children?" asked Mrs. Canby. "Yes, ma'am; indeed I would.
I'm very, very doubtful about it." He peered over Tinker's head, squinting his eyes, and seemed for the first time to be aware of the playwright's presence. "Oh, are you there, Mr. Canby? When did you come in?" "I've been here all the time," said the dishevelled Canby, coming forward. "I supposed it was my business to be here, but-"
The last-named department was so far away that Sherman could not communicate with it very readily after starting on his spring campaign, and it was therefore soon transferred from his military division to that of the Gulf, where General Canby, who had relieved General Banks, was in command.
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