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He held the dime out ruefully: "That's punk and plaster for supper, but we'll have to depend on a hand-out for breakfast. And, Corp," he added apologetically, "you know I told you we was going to ride regular like gentlemen? Well, I've been compelled to change my plans.
A plucky fellow, this Captain Ure who saved him. I wonder who he is." "I wonder!" Corp said with a groan. "There was an Alexander Bett with him, according to the papers," Tommy went on. "Do you know any Bett?" "It's no a Thrums name," Corp replied thankfully. "I just made it up." "What do you mean?" Tommy asked blankly. Corp sighed, and went back again to the wagon.
Had he waxed sentimental she would not have gone a step of the way with him into the past, but when he was so full of glee she could take his hand and run back into it. "But we must wait until evening," Tommy said, "until Corp is unharnessed; we must not hurt the feelings of Corp by going back to the Den without him." "How mean of me not to think of Corp!"
"No, I'm no' a cousin." "At ony rate ye'll be a frien' o' the corp?" "No, I'm no' that either. Ye see, I've no' been very weel masel," the stranger explained complacently, "an' my doctor has ordered me carriage exercise, so I thocht this would be the cheapest way to tak' it." The small boy stood at the garden gate and howled and howled and howled. A passing lady paused beside him.
Grizel cried; but the next moment she was glad she had not thought of him, it was so delicious to have proof that Tommy was more loyal. "But we can't turn back the clock, can we, Corp?" she said to the fourth of the conspirators, to which Corp replied, with his old sublime confidence, "He'll find a way." And at first it really seemed as if Tommy had found a way.
'Taint a nat'ral thing, I'm a-sayin', for me to du, Dinah, ter pass the night alone along o' my old missus's corp." "Bor, 'taint the fust onnat'ral thing you ha' done i' your life," Mrs Brome said; and went out and shut the door. An hour or so later Depper opened it, and going hurriedly past the intervening cottages, knocked stealthily upon the door of Dinah Brome.
Mihiel fight, mostly in letters written home by men who were in it, go far toward showing how completely the Germans were taken off their guard. Corp. Ray Fick of the 103d Infantry wrote home in this wise: "We got into the woods and then kept on going until we reached a big city where there was a brewery, but they had set fire to the whole city before they left.
"Thank you, yes, Corporal," said Barnabas, and taking the proffered pipe he filled and lighted it. Now when the pipes were in full blast, when the One and Only had been tasted, and pronounced by Mr. Shrig to be "up to the mark," he nodded to Corporal Dick with the words: "Tell our young gent 'ow you lost your 'and, Corp."
I says to myself: 'The corp won't care." Someway the Proudfits' car and the stable telephone must themselves have slipped from modernity to old fashion before that incident shall quite come into its own. So it is with certain of our domestic ways.
Tommy cried, "If there is any more to tell, Corp, be quick." "There's what I come here to tell you. It was no langer syne than jimply an hour. We thocht the bairn was playing at the gavle-end, and that Grizel was up the stair. But they werena, and I gaed straight to Double Dykes. She wasna there, but the bairn was, lying greetin' on the floor.