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The winter had almost passed now, and the first young shoots were beginning to peep out timidly in the face of the wind and the rain of an English March. The snows were gone, but the countryside looked bleaker and drearier, all shrouded in the haze from the damp, sodden meadows. "By the way, Robert," said Raffles Haw suddenly, as they walked up the Avenue.
As he knelt to fill the pail, the red haw and the purple ironweed met above his head. Below him was a little mirror-like pool, and it gave him back himself with such distinctness that, startled, he dropped the pail, and bending nearer, began to study the image in the water.
How you come to see it all I don't know." "Oh, never mind that, Pete. It's very horrible, and when we are missing in the morning there will be no end of an upset, and they will think that we have deserted." "Haw, haw!" grunted Peter, with another thrust of his pole which hindered the straight course of the sampan. "Them thinking you had deserted, sir? Likely! You ain't me."
May I ask of thee, my young friend, who thou art, and by what name I shall call thee? not for the satisfaction of an idle curiosity, to know either thy profession or thy private concerns, but that I may the better speak to thee in our conference hereafter, Thou hast rightly conjectured as to my calling and my own name, which is one unknown to most even in these forests, is John Cross I come of a family in North Carolina, which still abide in that state, by the waters of the river Haw.
The summit is tipped with the calyx and it ripens in September. The leaves are thick, narrowed at the base, and rounded at the ends, with veins underneath that are prominent and often hairy. =Black Haw. Stag-Bush= The fruit of the black haw, or stag-bush, is not edible until after frost has touched it. It is oval, dark blue with bloom, and about half an inch long.
Have you never made a snowball?" "Never." "Then it's a treat in store for you. I sincerely hope we shall have a hard winter." "We ought to, by the number of berries in the hedges," put in Bertha. "It's an old saying that they foretell frost. "'Bushes red with hip and haw, Weeks of frost without a thaw. I don't know whether it always comes true, though."
There be a sum to be easily earned by a sharp-eyed chap with good luck on 's side." "And how then, Master Chuter?" said George, pausing, with the steaming mug half-way to his lips. "Haw, haw!" roared the inn-keeper: "you be a sharp-eyed chap, too! Do 'ee think 'twould suit thee, Gearge? Thee's a sprack chap, sartinly, Gearge!"
"He's alone in the world. I'm his nearest of kin." "Give you five dollars for him," Cady offered. "I just paid five hundred, and he's worth a thousand. Why, his people came over ahead of the Mayflower." The gloomy lover was interested; in his face there gleamed a faint desire. "Think of it! Well, make it a thousand. I'll send him in a bunch of orchids. Haw!"
"Well, he'll scratch his head and stare at that, for a space. He'll hum and haw a little to get breath, for he never thought of that afore, since he grow'd up; but he's no fool, I can tell you, and he'll out with his mould, run an answer and be ready for you in no time. He'll say, 'They don't require none. Sir. They have no redundant population. They are an outlet themselves.
It almost seems as if in spite of men's well-known protecting tenderness towards woman it almost seems as if there's nothing in this world so funny to a man as a woman! 'Haw! Haw! Got it right that time! Borrodaile was smiling, too. 'Do you know, Vida asked, 'who those men are who have just stopped? 'No. 'I believe Ernestine does. 'Oh, perhaps they're bold bad members of Parliament.
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