United States or Pitcairn Islands ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !


They said all right, but before they left they sent one of the grandsons to climb a big tree in the barnyard, where he tied the demijohn sixty feet from the ground. Just the same, when they come home that night they found Susan on the kitchen floor dead to the world." "And she'd climbed the tree after all," Saxon hazarded, when Billy had shown no inclination of going on.

The priest effected an entrance into the house, which had once been his, by forcing the lock of the door opening on the garden; he found the requisite articles, and retired without having been discovered. That night the abbe hazarded a cruel but indispensable operation. His heart trembled, but not the hand that held the knife, although he had never before attempted so difficult a task.

"I suppose there are servants in the house upon whom you can call," he hazarded. She looked a bit embarrassed. "If I should need any one there is my old housekeeper, Marie," she answered. Marie was upstairs, sick in bed with rheumatism, too feeble to move without help. But to confess this fact to him would be almost to force him to stay.

"With the children?" she answered, slightly colouring. "Oh yes. I sing with the dear children, if it can be called singing." Barbox Brothers glanced at the two small forms in the room, and hazarded the speculation that she was fond of children, and that she was learned in new systems of teaching them?

Mind, I've only given you a small, insignificant sample of the misfortunes I've had since I cheated that dead man; but if they don't prove there's a curse on me, then there's no such thing as proof in this world." Price cleared his throat. "Serve you right for not havin' better luck," added Dixon. "Learn you sense, anyhow," remarked Mosey. "Misforcunes does some people good," hazarded Bum.

She would sell her own soul for riches, Calvert; judge, therefore, how willingly she would sell her niece's soul." He paused an instant and tapped impatiently on the table for another glass of cognac. "It was a great match, I suppose," hazarded Calvert. "Oh, yes; Monsieur de St.

In 1621, he was created a baronet, the honour of knighthood having been previously conferred upon three of his sons, while his fourth son Henry was subsequently knighted. Sir Henry, the third baronet, hazarded his life in defence of Charles I. in several enterprises, and his estates were sequestrated by the Parliamentarians.

"Well, I thought possibly Miss Flower might have been moved to take a moonlight ride. No reason why she shouldn't, you know, and not wishing to disturb you " "Then she would have used her own side-saddle. What's she doing with a man's? Besides, she'd have told me!" "Oh! You've seen her then this morning? I thought perhaps she wasn't up," hazarded Webb. "Up?

Twenty years back there was a unanimity among English writers to speak the language of moderation and good sense whenever a rash author of foreign nations hazarded some dangerous novelties; and in their reviews they immediately pointed out the poison which lay concealed under the covering of science or imagination, and the peril of these ever-increasing new discoveries.

Serve us well, and you will not be forgotten. Then he suddenly asked: 'Did you fight in the last South African War? 'Yes, Sir, I said. 'I was in the commando of that Smuts who has now been bought by England. 'What were your countrymen's losses? he asked eagerly. I did not know, but I hazarded a guess. 'In the field some twenty thousand.