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The display of the company in the village filled him with the loftiest heroism. There was nothing wanting but an enemy to fight, but this could only be had by half the company staining themselves with elderberry juice and going into the woods as Indians, to fight the artillery from behind trees with bows and arrows, or to ambush it and tomahawk the gunners.
She could only hope the man and the boy would pass on to the house as they talked, so she motioned to the paralyzed Thirza to take two more steps and stand with her behind the elderberry bushes. But no! In a moment they heard Mr. Came drag a stool over beside the grindstone as he said: "Well, now Elisha Jeremiah, we'll talk about the red cow. You say you've drove her a month, do ye?
To-day he moved his camp-stool to the other side of the meadow. He was in the long grass behind an elderberry bush. At first I did not see him. I thought that he had hanged himself. But he said no. He had forgotten to get a rope. He had tried, he said, to shoot himself. But he had missed himself. Five Days Later. Otto and I are not to die. We are to live; to live and love one another for ever!
The various medicinal wines which are offered for sale, are decoctions of elderberry juice and kindred substances, and are more hurtful than beneficial. The "washes," "lotions," "toilet fluids," etc., are generally apt to produce skin diseases. They contain, in almost every instance, substances which are either directly or indirectly poisonous to the skin.
She had been their nurse for the first four years of their stay at Colet House; and she had left them to marry a small farmer. She had an affection for them, especially for the Terror; and she had not lost touch with them. She welcomed them warmly, ushered them into her little parlor, brought in a decanter of elderberry wine and a cake.
There is a deep pond, a fine wood, a bridge, perch, pickerel, a one-story inn with a veranda, ham and eggs, stewed quince, elderberry wine, and a romantic road to ride over." "I like it." Frank opened a discussion on fishing; Laura and I withdrew, and went to the window-seat. "I am light-hearted," I said. "It is my duty to be melancholy," she replied; "but I shall not mope after Frank has gone."
The Indian usually had the worst of it; he not only got killed by the regulars, but he got whipped by the home guard at night for staining himself and his clothes with the elderberry. But once a year the company had a superlative parade. This was when the military company from the north part of the town joined the villagers in a general muster.
I fell down on the job while you were away." "What has happened?" Higgins led the way to the edge of the elderberry jungle and pointed out over the drained land. A dozen armed men, outlaws and fugitives of the most vicious kind from Big Cypress Swamp, were scattered systematically over the thousand-acre tract.
"He's got 'em on the list he's got 'em on the list; And they'll none of 'em be missed they'll none of 'em be missed!" hummed Mr. Beck. "It looks good to me! I'll take a hundred thousand." "Mr. Chippingham has the papers drawn already," continued Elderberry.
When she reached the river, curving around the meadow, brown and shallow in the midsummer droughts, she saw that the big locust was long past blossoming, but some elderberry bushes, in full bloom, made the air heavy with acrid perfume; the grass, starred by daisies, and with here and there a clump of black-eyed Susans, was ready for mowing, and was tugging at its anchoring roots, blowing, and bending, and rippling in the wind, just as it had that other day!... "And I sat right here, by the tree," she said, "and he lay there I remember the exact place.
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