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With an ejaculation of amazement he jumped to his feet and went to him. "How the deuce did you get here?" he demanded. "Were you asleep, Johnny?" "I was awake and watching!" The old hunter chuckled. "It was so still when I come to those trees back there that I thought mebby something had 'appened," he said. "So, I sneaked up, Johnny." "Did you see anything over the range?" asked Aldous anxiously.
"Hold yourself up, for goodness' sake," she exhorted, and she straightened her own rush-like figure. "Why do you make such a round back? And you blink your eyes as if you were short-sighted. Hm, you should be with my employer oh my, she would make you sit up." She chuckled to herself, her whole slender figure shook with a secret inclination to laugh. "You're so happy," he said slowly.
"You don't, eh?" chuckled the Major. "Well, there's time enough for that, I suppose. You can make up to them ten years hence, and you'll be glad enough to do it then, I warrant you, but are you all alone, young lady?" As Betty nodded, he opened the door and stepped gingerly down.
We would like to see everything of interest in the White Mountain country." "That's a pretty big contract," chuckled Janus; "but I reckon we can show you what you want to see. For instance, there's Mt. Chocorua, Moosilauke, Mt. Washington, Mt.
"Look- -the keep is no higher than your roof-tree. My lord chose not the site for its loftiness but for the sure foundation." "Aye," chuckled the old woman, "you say well, 'tis a good foundation. All but that corner. Tell your lord to raise no towers on that corner."
Pretty soon he came to a bramble-bush, and under it he could see Old Jed Thumper. For just a minute he chuckled, a noiseless chuckle, to himself. Then he opened his mouth and out came that terrible sound which had so frightened all the little people on the Green Meadows when Old Man Coyote had first come there to live. "Ha, ha, ha! Ho, ho, ho! Hee, hee, hee! Ha, ho, hee, ho!"
"Ah!" cried the Grand Chew Chew, arriving breathlessly at this point, "We have won the day!" "So we have!" chuckled the Scarecrow, putting his arm around Happy Toko. "Call the brave army and decorate the generals!" "It shall be done," said the Grand Chew Chew, frowning at Happy. "There shall be a great celebration, a feast, and fireworks."
"There is the bracelet in question, Professor Elliott," said Frank, promptly placing a little parcel done up in tissue paper in the hands of the professor. "I told you he had it. Didn't I say so?" crowed and chuckled the triumphant Gill. "However, I didn't steal it," continued Frank. "There is a story I should like to tell you, Professor Elliott. Its telling now may save some trouble later on."
Miss Hart, her head on one side, looked playfully at Mr. Lovegrove. "What about a subsequent summons for over-crowding?" he chuckled. The whole breadth of the room, well understood, was between him and the wife's feelings, not to mention the august presence beside her upon the sofa. "No doubt that has to be thought of!" Eliza nodded sagely. "But is she not looking sweeter than ever to-day?
He discontinued the recital of his catalogue, and surveyed the scenery in dignified silence. His own friends chuckled. This was the most unkindest cut of all. Irishmen love to see a splendid knockdown blow. They are full of fight, and their spirit must have vent.
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