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He was nothing, clearly, unless reasonable. "Personally, I am extremely fond of Dickie Calmady," he began. "I permit myself honestly I do moments of enthusiasm regarding him. I should esteem the woman lucky who married him. Yet I could imagine a prejudice might exist in some minds minds of a less emancipated and finely comprehensive order than yours and my own of course against such an alliance.
"Do you have adventures?" asked Dick, recognizing in this description a rough sketch of the life of a modern knight-errant. "'Ventures? I believe you!" said the man. "Why, only last month a brute of a dog bit me in the leg, at a back door Sutton way. An' once I see a elephant." "Wild?" asked Dickie, thrilling. "Not azackly wild with a circus 'e was. But big! Wild ones ain't 'alf the size, I lay!
"Then I'll certainly come to see you," he said, "when time hangs heavily on my hands." "My new house isn't as high as you are right now," Dickie remarked. And at that Fatty Coon looked puzzled. His mouth fell open; and for a few moments he stared at his small friend without saying a word. "You must be mistaken," he replied at last. "I'm standing on the ground.
Dickie Deer Mouse knew that one needed sharp eyes to spy him when he was peeping from his house in that fashion. And often when somebody of whom he was really afraid came wandering through the woods, Dickie would keep quite still, while he watched the newcomer without being seen. But with some of the wood folk he took no chances.
Robertson, Rizzoli, Tait, Hamilton, Brodie, Denis, Dickie, Goyrand, and many others mention extroversion of viscera from parietal defects. The different forms of hernia will be considered in another chapter. There seem to be no authentic cases of complete absence of the kidney except in the lowest grades of monstrosities.
Beale. "Besides, you've got a regular gift for sticking it on a talent I call it. And now you want to throw it away. But you can't. We got to live." "In the dream," said Dickie, "there didn't seem to be no unemployed. Every one was 'prenticed to a trade. I wish it was like that here." "Well, it ain't," said Mr. Beale shortly. "I wasn't never 'prenticed to no trade, no more'n what you'll be."
Dickie repeated, in quite a changed voice. "Come, children," said the aunt oh, what a different aunt to the one who had slapped Dickie in Deptford, sold the rabbit-hutch, and shot the moon! "you boys remember how I showed you to carry my train. And my girl will not forget how to fling the flowers from the gilt basket as the King and Queen come down the steps."
Snuff got up, sniffed at her, and gave a short bark of pleasure, for he felt quite sure now that she was going into the garden; but Snuff was wrong this time, as he soon found when he trotted after her. Dickie had wider views, and though she went out of the garden door, which stood open, she turned into a path leading to the front of the house and marched straight down the drive.
"I'll go down there and see what's the trouble." Dickie followed after him. "I'm going too," she said. "I should have gone back and told Swanson or " Her words were interrupted by the sharp report of a gun from over the hill. McCoy broke into a run. "Go back," he cried. "Hurry. Get your gun. I'm going on." Boris looked stupidly into the white face of Kenneth Gregory as he knelt over him.
Markham said she didn't care. "Well, but how am I to get away with my crutch?" "Mean to say you'd cut and run if you was the same as me about the legs, I mean?" "Yes," said Dickie. "And not nick anything?" "Not a bloomin' thing," said he. "Well," said Markham, "you've got a spirit, I will say that." "You see," said Dickie, "I wants to get back to farver."