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In other words, the live toad which hops out of an Old Red Sandstone rock must be presumed, on the popular belief, to be older by untold ages than the oldest fossil frogs and toads.
"Oh, I'll be in at one of the hops, later on in the summer," responded Prescott. "One?" gasped Furlong. "Oh, you wild, giddy thing! You're going to do better, aren't you, Holmesy?" continued Furlong, as Dick's old chum came out, fitting on a pair of white gloves. "I'm going over and put my head in danger of being punched, I suppose," grinned Greg.
So fond is he of this exercise that one which I watched amused himself half an hour at a time in a pile of brush; starting from the ground, slipping easily through up to the top, standing there a moment, then flying back and repeating the performance. Should the goal of his journey be a fence picket, he alights on the beam which supports it, and hops gracefully to the top.
"Turkeys, Carpes, Hops: Piccarel, and beers, Came into England: all in one year." There were no coffee-houses as yet, for neither tea nor coffee was introduced till about 1661. Tobacco was first made known in England by Sir John Hawkins in 1565, though not commonly used by men and women till some years after. It was urged as a great medicine for many ills.
How Queen Whims' officers were employed; and how the said lady retained us among her abstractors. I then saw a great number of the queen's officers, who made blackamoors white as fast as hops, just rubbing their bellies with the bottom of a pannier. Others, with three couples of foxes in one yoke, ploughed a sandy shore, and did not lose their seed.
See her, in a foam of short fluffy green skirts, twirl and tiptoe on the glittering wire, all grace and slenderness and agile enchantment. She bows in the dazzle of light and kisses her hands to the crowd. Then she hops into the big car and is borne back behind the scenes. Once behind the doors her gay vivacity ceases. She sits, wearily, several minutes, before getting out of the car.
It's fifteen years since I buys a stamp or gets a letter, an' all thirst tharfor is assuaged complete. "'Fifteen years is shore a long time, says Enright, sorter to himse'f, an' then we-alls hops into our letters ag'in. Finally Cherokee breaks in once more.
I shall become absorbed in hops and you will no doubt go away. You will make visits or go to the Riviera or to New York for the winter?" "I do not know yet. But at least I shall stay to watch the thorn trees load themselves with coral." To herself she was saying: "He means to keep away. I shall not see him." As she rode off Mount Dunstan stood for a few moments, not moving from his place.
"I was just thinking," mused Greg, "of a promise you and Dave Darrin made some girls back in Gridley." "I remember that promise," nodded Dick. "You and Darrin promised Laura Bentley and Belle Meade that you'd each invite them to hops, you to West Point and Dave to Annapolis, just as soon as either one of you had a right to attend hops." "I know," nodded Prescott. Greg was silent.
Bell hops scurried with folding tables. Bridge games formed. The theater group got off, so to speak. Showy women and show-off men. Mrs. Gronauer, in a full length mink coat that enveloped her like a squaw, a titillation of diamond aigrettes in her Titianed hair and an aftermath of scent as tangible as the trail of a wounded shark, emerged from the elevator with her son and daughter-in-law.
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