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Like a brown lizard the fat squaw scuttled to Rhoda's side. In a little dressing-room formed by fallen rock, Rhoda put on the boy's clothing. Molly helped the girl very gently. When she was done she smoothed the blue-shirted shoulder complacently. "Heap nice!" she said. "Make 'em sick squaw heap warm. You no 'fraid!
I suppose you have discovered that the girls of the Overland Riders are possessed of the usual curiosity of their sex, have you not?" Hi laughed silently. "You've got a poser this time. 'Fraid your curiosity won't be gratified, so far as that map is concerned, but I reckon you'll find so much doing before long that you will forget all about this particular mystery.
Anne had not moved; she held the needle in her right hand, the unfinished bag in her left; beside her on the pillow gleamed the jewels. Mademoiselle's eyes took in every detail. "I demand to know who screamed," she repeated. Amelia spoke sheepishly. "I was so sound asleep," she said. "And then I waked up. I can't help being 'fraid of ghosts and burglars and things.
Wit' these two hands I have choke' ze polar bear to deat'. I am strongest man w'at ees in all nort' countree. I pack four hundre' pound ovair portage. I crack ze caribou bones wit' my teeth, lak a dog. I run sixt' or hundre' miles wit'out stop for rest. I pull down trees w'at oder man cut wit' axe. I am not 'fraid of not'ing. You lissen? You hear w'at I say?" "I hear you."
"It isn't the rainy season now," remarked Tot with a smile. The boy glanced at his umbrella and hugged it tighter. "No," he said, "but umbrellas are good for other things 'sides rain." "'Fraid of gett'n sun-struck?" asked Trot. He shook his head, still gazing far out over the water. "I don't b'lieve this is bigger than any other ocean," said he.
With this thought deepening the red-brown eyes, she turned and looked first at her Bible-backed father and then at the little dwarf. "There air one thing ye both got to do," she instructed them. "Ye got to stop yer worryin' an' ye got to stop bein' 'fraid." Andy's jaw dropped. "Stop bein' 'fraid!" he muttered. "Stop bein' 'fraid!
"It's not the first time I've done that for you, Phelim; but in regard o' these ten guineas, why you must put them in your pocket for fraid they be wantin' to get off wid layin' down guinea for guinea. You see, they don't think we have a rap; an' if they propose it we'll be up to them." "Larry," observed Sheelah, "don't make a match except they give that pig they have.
'Needn't be 'fraid. I'm not afraid, I said. 'But I wanted to know. Which floor is it? 'Third. I'll light a match. Then I pushed to the door, whose automatic latch clicked. We were fast in the courtyard. Diaz dropped his matches in attempting to strike one. The metal box bounced on the tiles. I bent down and groped with both hands till I found it.
"Oh!" said the Wizard, "I guess that will set her free." But Trot's feet were still rooted in the ground of the Magic Isle, and the disappointed Wizard had to try something else. For almost an hour he worked hard, using almost every magic tool in his black bag, and still Cap'n Bill and Trot were not rescued. "Dear me!" exclaimed Dorothy, "I'm 'fraid we'll have to go to Glinda, after all."
"Oh, no, no, no!" she cried. "That would be too fearful. He's shocked, stunned; you cannot have killed him." But the tramp was persistent. "I'm 'fraid I have," he said. "I done it before, and it's been the same every time. But I couldn't see a man of that color frighten a lady like you. My supper was too warm in me, ma'am. Shall I throw him outside the house?"
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