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Hoops was the first to recover from the general chaos of fright and bewilderment. "Leonard!" she screamed shrilly to her nephew, "turn it back into Mrs. Hampton at once! It may fly at us at any moment. Turn it back!" "I I don't know how to," faltered Leonard, who looked more scared and horrified than anyone.
Suddenly she felt all her slimness and fragility; she felt all the girl in herself and all the dominant man in him, and all the empty space around them. She went hot. Her sight became dim. She was ecstatically blissful; she was deeply ashamed. She desired the experience to last for ever, and him and herself to be eternally moveless; and at the same time she desired to fly.
Dried Beef. An experienced housekeeper has furnished the following method for curing and drying beef, which will keep good for two years, without being injured by must or fly, and is much admired.
Various inferences were drawn too from the manner in which the birds that appeared in the air, were seen to fly, and from the sound of their note at the time when the observation was made. By these and many similar means the government of Romulus vainly endeavored to ascertain the will of heaven in respect to the plans and enterprises in which they were called upon from time to time to engage.
I have seen several great Flocks of them fly over head; therefore, believe, they inhabit the Valleys near the Mountains. They leave us in the Summer.
They were already terrified enough to fly from anything that called itself a ghost. When it is desired to send a summons or other message over a district in Norway where the dwellings are scattered, the budstick is sent round by running messengers. It is a stick, made hollow, to hold the magistrate's order, and a screw at one end to secure the paper in its place.
At last he pushed the door open and found Jesus moving his head from side to side, unable to rid himself of a fly that was crawling about his mouth. Joseph drove it away and gave Jesus some more weak wine and water, which seemed to soothe him, and feeling he could do no more he sat down by the bedside to wait for Esora.
"Hullo, here's the meadow ditch. Hadn't we better follow it up and down? Stephen and I will take the left." Once more, as they turned, a shout! "Oh, be quick!" cried Stephen. "Where does it come from? Come, Wray, quick!" They might as well have tried to fly as run against that wind; but they crawled rapidly forward. Suddenly, close at their side, rose the shout again.
At this time we would let him out in the garden, watching him closely, for, if he thought he was alone, he would sneak away slyly, then make a run for liberty, hobbling along at a good rate with the aid of his wings, though he never attempted to fly as yet. When detected and overtaken, he fell on his face as before.
Oh, what a happy life they lead, over the hill and in the mead! How they sing, and how they play! See, they fly away, away!
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