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"Oh, you mentioned it to Louise, did you?" says I. "I expect that was the lovely lady who carted you off in the taxi?" He nods and springs another one of them silly smiles. "Tha's ri'," says he. "The lovely Louishe." "Tell me, Ernie," says I, "how long has this been going on?" And what do you suppose this fathead has the front to spring on me? That this was the first time he'd ever seen her.
After a season's work in 1797 she was carted past Niagara and launched on Lake Ontario, where she plied between Queenston and Kingston under the British flag with the name of Lady Washington. The rival Hudson's Bay and North-West Companies each had a few boats on the western Lakes at the beginning of the nineteenth century, and the government maintained there a tiny flotilla of its own.
With his own guns we drove him from the field. And then we had him carted to a distant small hotel and put to bed with his nuggets and baby seal-skins stuffed around him. "He will never find Cypher's again," said Kraft. "He will propose to the first white apron he sees in a dairy restaurant to-morrow. And Milly I mean the Natural Adjustment is saved!"
There was the luggage, ready to be carried away again, anywhere, tossed into trains, carted on to boats. ... "He was too weak. He was too weak to move a finger." And yet he died in Janey's arms. She who'd never never once in all these years never on one single solitary occasion No; he mustn't think of it. Madness lay in thinking of it. No, he wouldn't face it. He couldn't stand it.
The roads were barely passable and the trip to Albany and back required from six to eight days. The wagons, upon which the produce was carted, were of rough and clumsy make. It would not be supposed that the driver would find much pleasure in making the distance to market and back on one of these clumsy vehicles, but the trip, especially to the younger men, was not without its enjoyments.
But the tent was carted away, poles, flags, and all, and then we resumed our search over the space where the erection had stood, even up to the hedge, and boys were sent over it to peer about in the ditch beyond.
Here there was a torn hat, and there some fragments of rotten old boots, and scattered around a small attendant litter of torn paper and frowzy rags. "What are you looking at?" asked Mr. Playmore. "At nothing more remarkable than the dust-heap," I answered. "In tidy England, I suppose, you would have all that carted away out of sight," said the lawyer.
Bobbsey's lumber yard was not allowed, unless the boards were to be put on a wagon to be carted off and sold. "I'll tell you what we'd better do, Freddie," said the watchman at last. "What?" Freddie asked. "We'd better make a little ship first. That will be easy and we can make it like a big one.
In the depths of the shadowy leaves the glow-worms displayed their phosphorescent beauty; the lampyrid beetles plied between gloom and obscurity, impatient for the mirror of night to flaunt therein their illumined finery. In the distance was heard the lusty song of the blowsy yokels, as they clumsily carted homeward the day's gathering.
There was a good deal of inquiry made about the houghing of Squire Winthorpe's horses, and there was a great deal of excitement before the poor beasts were skinned, for their hides to go to town to the tanyard and their carcasses were carted away.
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