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"You may say thousands, and they won't do no good," said Joses. "He's got the fright and badly too." "But the bears are gone?" "Ay, that they are, my lad; but the fall's there, and that's what he's afraid of. I've seen men look like that before now, when climbing up mountains." "But it would be so easy to get back, Joses. I could do it directly." "So could he if he hadn't lost his nerve.
A tiny cabin stood completed on every filing. Two men were digging post holes across the valley below the edge of the last fall's plowing and the mule teams were steadily breaking out another strip. "Almost a year," she said, referring to the commencement of the new work. "Just a year to-day," Harris corrected, and he was thinking of the day he had first met the Three Bar girl.
"Galland is an honest man rich above suspicion above corruption an ideal candidate," said Davy. "He is a corporation owner, a corporation lawyer and a fool," said Victor. "As I've told you, all Dick Kelly's interest in this fall's local election is that judgeship." "Galland is my man. I want to see him elected. If Kelly's for Galland, so much the better.
"What are you driving at?" demanded Dodge. "We owe Dick Prescott a few. If you're with me we'll see if his season on the gridiron can't be made a farce and a fizzle." As always happens the schedule of the fall's games was changed somewhat at the last moment. In the first change there was a decided advantage.
Then I found myself in the thick of a copse of witch-hazel up and down the stems of which the bees were wildly buzzing. There was no dew left on the bushes, so it was not that they were after; on looking more closely I saw that they were crawling down the stems to the little burrs containing the seed of last fall's flowering.
'Don't make no difference what I LOOK like, I says, 'here I be and I ain't never been further than the Brockton cattle show since I was ten year old. But now I'm goin' to travel at last. My! I'm so tickled I don't know what to do. I'll start in makin' my last fall's hat over this very night. Say, it's a good thing you've got me to help in the goin' and the settlin', ain't it, Sereny Mrs.
"And there shall be each contributing his share, at least I'll try to contribute mine. But you have your own individuality, dear; and a very strong one it is. And I don't want you to change." At the time he was deep in his plans for illustrating the News-Record. Early in that fall's campaign they had secured the best cartoonist in America.
"I'd not venture to say aloud such a dangerous thing as what I'd have done if I had been in his place. Instead of doing that, he made us. We shall win this fall's election." Selma lifted her head with a sudden gesture of hope. She had unbounded confidence in Victor Dorn, and his tone was the tone of absolute confidence. "I had calculated on winning in five years.
Still, the paragraph had a real ring of honesty and feeling in it. That was what others thought too. "Gad, that Stirling knows how to sling English," said one of the committee, when the paragraph was read aloud. "He makes it take right hold." Many an orator in that fall's campaign read the nineteenth section of the Democratic platform aloud, feeling that it was ammunition of the right kind.
Micro Systems could subdivide the world's most spacious suburb and all you moles could go ellipsing. Space is as safe as there is: no air, no shock waves. Free fall's the ultimate in restfulness great health benefits. Commute by rocket or better yet stay home and do all your business by TV-telephone, or by waldo if it were that sort of thing.
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