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Sue enumerated six other gatherings that were being given that week in honour of Esther's visit home. Sue seemed to dwell much on the subject. Presently Peggy, with hot cheeks, understood why. Everybody was giving Esther a party, everybody but Peggy herself. Esther's own chum, and all the other girls, were talking about it. Peggy stood at the door to see Sue out, and watched the sleighs fly by.
As he did so, Tommy saw a hairy paw shoot out with vicious force and brush and scrape across the boy's shoulder. Tommy heard the boy's coat ripping and tearing under the clutch of the great claws, and heard his chum utter a piercing scream as the wicked claws touched the flesh.
Much of the timber of the coastal scrubs is of considerable commercial value for building purposes and furniture making, and is, or should be, so utilised prior to felling and burning off. True scrub lands are not by any means the most difficult to clear, though to a "new chum" the work will appear at first of a Herculean character.
Down in a mass of mud went another portion of the hill, and when it had ceased moving Blake gave a cry of joy. For there, lying in a mass of red sand, was Joe himself, and beside him was the camera, the tripod legs sticking out at grotesque angles. "Joe! Joe!" yelled Blake, preparing to leap toward his chum. "Be careful!" warned Mr. Alcando. "There may be danger "
Some story which he told his friends, the natives in Africa, is probably responsible for the missionary's warning. Let's check over our lists of supplies, Tom, and see if we have everything down!" "Can't you do that alone, Ned?" "Why?" and Ned glanced quickly at his chum. Mr. Damon and Mr. Swift had left the room. "Well, I've get an engagement a call to make, and " "Enough said, old man. Go ahead.
I will find a good chum for you, and see you through it, both for the sake of my old mate, Straight Harry, and because I have taken a liking to you myself." "Why do you call my uncle Straight Harry?" Tom asked, after thanking Pete for his promise. "Is he so very upright?" "No, lad, no; it ain't nothing to do with that. There are plenty more erect men than him about.
My sardonic chum, on the contrary, an individual wholly abandoned to the ignoble vice of punning, asserts that my conduct was simply "barbarous." It will be for the reader to judge. St. Meuse let us call it St. Meuse is a town of what is still French Lorraine; and to St. Meuse I came drifting up the Marne Valley, over the flat expanse of the plain of Chalons, and by St.
Once, in his haste, Allan tripped and fell headlong; and Thad's heart seemed to be in his mouth with the suspense; but immediately the other scrambled to his feet again. His first thought must have been of the chum whose eyes he knew were glued upon him; for he made a reassuring wave of his arm, and resumed his downward progress, a trifle more carefully now.
With all her coarseness, she was a good-natured woman at heart. Melting into the tenderest womanly sympathy, she tried her best to express herself in her crude way. Leading the weeping girl to the armchair, she made her sit down. Then, seating herself on the arm, she put her arm round her old chum and hugged her to her breast. "There, old girl," she said soothingly, "don't cry, don't cry.
The boat had been delayed, and we had waited for three hours, and had seen our chum nearly every day for years, and now we found we hadn't begun to say half what we wanted to say to him.
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