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At that moment, Rob turned toward them, holding his new watch in his hand. "I have just been showing Ranald the present Daddy gave me," he said to Lloyd. "It reminded me that I hadn't told you, I've put that same old four-leaf clover into the back of this watch that I had in my silver one. I wouldn't lose my luck by losing your hoodoo charm for anything in the world."
It is a useful thing, but it needs not caps and it fires no bullets, and you cannot wake a sleeping man with a tooth-brush. Yes, it was a tooth-brush a regular beauty, pure bone all through, and ticketed with a little paper, "Hoodoo, from Santa Claus." Again the expression of intense joy passed over the boy's face, and the tears of gratitude started from his eyes.
Presently "Soapy" Sothern, drifting in on his buckskin from the Hoodoo Peak country, where for private reasons of his own he had been for the past month a sojourner, reported that he had seen the prettiest sight in the State climbing under a gasoline bronc with a monkey-wrench in her hand. Where? Right over the hill on the edge of town.
But happiness was the only hoodoo, and, under its expanding influence, she fairly bloomed that night. Lloyd, hovering near her, jubilant over the success of her popular Cinderella, beamed and dimpled with pleasure, and stored away the many compliments she overheard, to repeat to Agnes next day.
With this he knelt down and began on the boot which belonged to the leg projecting beneath the horse. "Darn it! They're just my size." As he tugged at it, Hoodoo dying and convulsed struck out with his fore legs and caught the unlucky soldier full in the belly. The man gave a wild cry and staggering back fell. Penhallow craned over the horse's body and broke into laughter.
'My late wife was some sort of a sorceress among the blacks; and they are all persuaded she has come alive again in your agreeable person. Now, you will have the goodness to keep up that fancy, if you please; and to swear to them, on the authority of Hoodoo or whatever his name may be, that I am from this moment quite a sacred character.
Like that colossus of strength and wisdom, the elephant which refuses to pass over a bridge until satisfied that this will uphold its weight, the cunning stone did not budge another inch until the bridge had been braced with many timbers. As foreseen by me this uncanny rock was sent by the Idol of the mountain, the "Sphinx of Aztlan," to cast a hoodoo, an evil spell over the monument.
"Which one? We've got three of them now, if you please, and one's a National." "I meant the Farmers'," I said. "Something right funny about that, Bert," Barton commented. "The old bank is rocking along and doing a little business in farm mortgages and note-shaving at the old stand, same as usual, but it's got a hoodoo.
Am I clear?" "Certainly, sir. There is some marshy ground I climbed a tree and looked it over yesterday it won't stop the men, but may slow a horse." "I see. Here is my note." Penhallow tucked it in his belt and roused Josiah. "See to the girth," he said. "Is Hoodoo in good order?" "Yes, sir. Where you going, Master John?" "A little errand. Make haste."
Papa sent me up to tell you that he's going to take a crowd down the Blue Creek, this afternoon, and to ask you if you don't want to come along with us." "I shouldn't think he'd dare take Charlie again, for fear he'd hoodoo it all," said Grant disrespectfully. "Who's going?" asked Howard. "All of us; Cousin Euphemia and all; and Dr. Brownlee and Marjorie and you.
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