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Ha, Joey-boy?" and gave me a slap on the shoulder that sent me half-way to the break. That was all right, but I went aloft so I could see the rocks of Cape Ann a mite sooner. I was just beginning to discover that I had been almost homesick. We were high line of the seining fleet when we got home from the Southern cruise and we felt pretty proud of ourselves.
Silver shoes she must have sometime, but here were the old white ones in the meantime. Nancy and Sally May were in the limousine waiting for the travellers at the station next day, and as Judith caught sight of them she realized with a joyous leap of her heart how homesick she had been for the sound of Sally May's pretty voice and the sight of Nancy's dear, merry face.
Don't forget." Blue Bonnet went down to her room thoughtfully; a vision of those homesick children before her eyes. She wondered what people meant by sending such infants away from home. Why, there was one who seemed scarcely old enough to comb her own hair. All of a sudden she felt old grown up; responsibility weighed on her the responsibility of Carita. On her own hall she passed Mrs. White.
Our cavalry horses had fallen before them, dying on the way. Only a few of those that reached Fort Sill had had the strength to survive even with food and care. John Mac prophesied truly when he declared to us that our homesick horses would never cross the Arkansas River again. Not one of them ever came back, and we who had gone out mounted now found ourselves a helpless intantry.
It's awful here, awful. I never knew anything so awful." Francis stared at her pityingly. "Why, you poor little girl, are you as homesick as that?" he said. Lois only sobbed in answer. "Look here!" said Francis he leaned over her, and his voice sank to a whisper "it's none of my business, but I think you'd better tell me; it won't go any further isn't your aunt good to you?
Then the next moment she walked over and tilted the other girl's chin with her hand. "You are just homesick, aren't you, and longing for some one who shall be nameless? You frightened me at first; I feared you had heard dreadful news. Come, get your coat and have a walk with me. We have both nearly two hours of freedom and I've permission to go outside the fortifications."
'I give you just two minutes to tell who sent you, and if you do not tell us then, you shall die! "Poor Peter thought of his home and his mother and father, and there never was a more homesick boy in the world than he was at that moment, but though he was terribly frightened, he did not say a single word.
There will be so little to do that with Lotty to run my errands and help me here and there, I shall only have enough work to keep me from getting lazy or homesick," answered Meg tranquilly. "Sallie Moffat has four," began Amy.
It was not only on account of the darkness and cold that he longed to get away from Lapland; there were other reasons too. The first weeks of his sojourn there the boy had not been the least bit homesick. He thought he had never before seen such a glorious country. The only worry he had had was to keep the mosquitoes from eating him up.
"Crazy guys," said Charley, contemptuously, chin in his hands where he stretched full length on his belly beside the embers of the supper fire. "Homesick," said Mackenzie, understandingly. "I've heard it's one of the worst of all diseases. It defeats armies sometimes, so you can't blame a lone sheepherder if he loses his mind on account of it."
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