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I can do without them if you will restore the child himself to me. When did you say you would bring him?" "Friday afternoon." "Until Friday afternoon, then, I wait." "Very well, sir; good day!" "Good day!" The old man picked up his cane, rose slowly from his chair, and, with his satchel in his hand, walked softly out, closing the door carefully behind him.

"I tell you what," said Old Ebony, hopping out of his shady corner; "I tell you what," it said, and then stopped as if to reflect; then finished by saying, "It's a shame!" Willie was about to ask the cane to what he referred, but he thought best to wait till Old Ebony got ready to tell of his own accord.

They laughed merrily at their escape. "Just think, John, how long it is since you came. It seems years. Oh, you were a queer boy! I just hated you." "I do suppose, Leila, I must have looked odd with that funny cap and the cane " "And the way you looked when I told you about swinging on the gate. I hadn't done that for oh, two years. What did you think of me?"

The particulars are given as they were narrated by Boone himself, at the wedding of a granddaughter, a few months before his decease, and they furnish an illustration of his habitual self-possession and tact with Indians. "As a shelter for curing it, he had built an enclosure of rails, a dozen feet in height, and covered it with cane and grass.

I have no doubt the oranges have a market price; but I have been seeking the value the gardeners set on them themselves. As I walked towards the heights, the other morning, and passed an orchard, the gardener, who saw my ineffectual efforts, with a very long cane, to reach the boughs of a tree, came down to me with a basketful he had been picking.

The cold water did not invite a protracted immersion, so that Ralph scrambled hastily out of it, and after a rub with a harsh towel, put on his clothes; then he noticed that the door of the stranger's cubicle was open; he looked into it to say good-by to his chance acquaintance, but it was empty, and in the corner he saw the Malacca cane with the gold head.

He had worked gradually up to tobacco by smoking cigarettes of cane made from abandoned hoop-skirts. Crinoline was fashionable, even in the country, in those days, and ribs of cane were used before the metallic distenders of dresses came in. One hoop-skirt, whose usefulness as an article of adornment was gone, would furnish delight and smoking material for a company of boys for a month.

"If she should turn 'round and fall in love with you why then no telling what might happen." Sarah was now able to walk around with the aid of a cane, and this afternoon she sat out on the porch entertaining her friends. "I do hope," said Dorothy, "that you will be able to go on the picnic with us, Sarah. Perhaps that, too, will be all the better for being postponed."

Every article of daily need is at the highest point, sugar alone being an illustration of what the determination to protect an industry has brought about. The London workwoman buys a pound for one penny, or at the most twopence. The French workwoman must give eleven or twelve sous, and then have only beet sugar, which has not much over half the saccharine quality of cane sugar.

Toward seven o'clock they saw Buvat turning the corner of the Rue Montmartre; he carried a roll of paper in one hand, and his cane in the other, and by his important air, it was easy to see that he had spoken to the prince himself. D'Harmental closed his window.