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He's really alive, though he never speaks; but he finks a lot, and whispers to me, but nobody but me can hear him. True gazed at Nobbles' smiling face with fascination. 'What does he tell you? she asked. Bobby's slow smile came. 'He told me last night he liked this house very much; and he ran away from me in the night he very often does he goes up the chimleys, and the wind takes him journeys.
I ain't no ways particler wot they're made of, but it'll feel natral like if there's chimleys too." The sun stretched a sudden finger and painted the chimney pots red and gold against the smoke-dimmed sky, and with his face alight with surprised relief my friend died. We are one with the earth, one in sin, one in redemption. It is the fringe of the garment of God.
"Well, at all events, it is a good thing to be religious." "And who is she, my good fellow?" "Why, a very intimate friend of Mrs. Lindsay's, and seldom out of her company. Now, sir, do you see that house wid the tall chimleys, or rather do you see the tall chimleys for you can't see the house itself? That's where the family we spake of lives, and there you'll see Mrs.
"And yet it may mean summot," she added, reflecting a little, "fo ey'n heerd say os how witches fly up chimleys o' broomsticks to attend their sabbaths. Ey should like to fly i' that manner, an change myself into another shape onny shape boh my own. Oh that ey could be os protty os Alizon! Ey dunna knoa whot ey'd nah do to be like her!"
Be good luck they was only stunned an' dreadful skeared, but no bones was broken." Mrs Denman found relief in a sigh. "Well, ma'am," continued Joe, "let me advise you to sweep yer chimleys once a month. When your chimley gets afire the sparks they get out, and when sparks get out of a windy night there's no tellin' what they won't light up.
Up across one of the big stone chimleys is carved "John Sterett," that a-way; which I mentions the same as goin' to show he ain't afeard none of bein' followed, an' that wherever he does come p'intin' out from, thar's no reward offered for his return. "'I ain't so shore neither, interjects Texas Thompson. 'He might have shifted the cut an' changed his name.
"At that we gav ower prayin', but kept kneelin' by his side an' waited for the Lord to sattle t' job. An' outside t' wind were yowlin' as if it would blow down t' walls and chimleys. But warr nor t' yowlin' o' t' wind were t' groans o' Sam Learoyd.
It's my opinion, ma'am, that them as makes the laws should more nor double the fines for chimleys goin' afire. But suppose, ma'am, your house gets alight in spite of you well then, the question is what's best to do?" Mrs Denman nodded her old head six or seven times, as though to say, "That is precisely the question."
The hoose was as fu' as it cud haud, frae cellar to garret, o' the blackest reek 'at ever crap oot o' coal. Oot we ran, an' it was a sicht to see the crater wi' his lang neck luikin' up at the chimleys. But deil a spark cam' oot o' them or reek either, for that maitter. It was easy to see what was amiss.
"But any way there's no use in bein' freckened now," says he; "for if I am to die, I may as well parspire undaunted," says he. 'Well, your honour, he thried to keep himself quite an' asy, an' he thought two or three times he might have wint asleep, but for the way the storm was groanin' and creakin' through the great heavy branches outside, an' whistlin' through the ould chimleys iv the castle.
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