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Its inhabitants referred with pride to the fact that Baynham Street overlooked a railway, which view could be obtained by craning the neck out of window at risk of dislocation. A brawny man was standing before the open door of No. 11 as Mavis walked up the steps. "Is Bill coming?" asked the man, as he furtively lifted his hat. Mavis looked surprised. "To chuck out this 'ere lodger for Mrs.
"You know," he explained, "Mamma won't come to you while she can send my brother. Oh, she'll certainly send Philippe to fetch me." The first time he said this Nana was deeply wounded. She said frigidly: "Gracious me, I should like to see him come! For all that he's a lieutenant in the army, Francois will chuck him out in double-quick time!"
I had to chuck discretion, as I told you, and give him his chance." He paused, and then asked with a somewhat humorous air of self-depreciation: "What do you think now, have I done more harm than good, made confusion worse confounded, and played the fool generally?" But again Honoria vouchsafed him no immediate reply.
Your coat looks three sizes too big for you, and when I last saw you it didn't look big enough." Peter hopped all around Johnny Chuck, looking at him as if he didn't believe his own eyes. "Oh, Johnny's all right. He's just been living on his own fat," said another voice. It was Jimmy Skunk who had spoken, and he now stood holding out his hand to Johnny Chuck and grinning good-naturedly.
"Stop thief!" cried all the Merry Little Breezes and Johnny Chuck and Billy Mink and all the rest. But Sammy Jay didn't stop. Then all began to pick up the nuts that had fallen from the old nest where Sammy Jay had hidden them.
All you had to do was to chuck him a bone." "Well, you'll have a darn sight more to do for these critters than that," announced Jerry. "But how'll I know " began the boy, alarmed by the prospect before him. "Oh, you'll get your instructions from the Madam, most likely get 'em all written down in black and white along with the history of every dog.
Still sneezing, Chuck trotted off with Coonie across the fields. When they reached Farmer Jones' barnyard everything seemed very quiet and sleepy around there. "Is that where the honey is kept?" whispered Chuck, as Coonie took a peep in at the barn-door. "No," answered Coonie, "I just wanted to see if the double-buggy was there.
On the other hand, there is her father, Dermod Eustace." "He wishes you to chuck your commission?" asked Willoughby. "He has no doubt the Irishman's objection to constituted authority," said Trench, with a laugh. "But need you subscribe to it, Feversham?" "It is not merely that." It was still to Durrance's back that he addressed his excuses.
"No, sir; but take care, or we shall step right off the bank into the water somewhere. Think I might strike a match, sir, and chuck it before us?" "No. If you do we shall be having a spear this time instead of a rifle-butt." "Right, sir; but I don't see how we are going to find a boat unless we wade in and chance it." "Let's get on, and creep through the bushes.
Such a dinner! With few appliances it is really wonderful how a mess-wagon cook feeds the crowd so well. Everything was good, so cleanly served and served so quickly. True, any kind of a mess tastes well to the hungry man, but I think that even a dyspeptic's appetite would become keen when he approached the cattleman's chuck wagon.
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