United States or French Southern Territories ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
And they were travelling fast toward the pine woods near the foot of Blue Mountain. "They seem to be in a hurry," said Johnnie Green. His father took one look at the procession and laughed. "They're going to a crow caucus, I guess," he answered. And then Johnnie wanted to know what a caucus was.
"I'm so small that they wouldn't see me and the first thing I'd know I'd be run over.... You'll have to stop the wagon for me you're so much bigger than I am." But Sandy Chipmunk said he didn't like to speak to Johnnie Green, on account of a little trouble he had had with Johnnie's father over a letter. "Can't you wave your tail at him?" Daddy Longlegs besought him.
You can catch a wild animal in a trap, but to whip it would be sacrilege ... that might do for domesticated animals. "Josh never laid a hand on her, though, that night ... she never came home ... men are so awful in their pride, Johnnie ... don't you be like that when you grow to be a man...." Then Aunt Rachel said no more, as Paul came in at that moment. Nor did she resume the subject.
She was fifteen, and as Johnnie, and Amy, and Robin were at an age when school is a necessity, the only retrenchment possible was to keep Janey at home. Ursula had got what education she possessed in the same irregular way. It was not much. Besides reading and writing, she had pretty manners, which came by nature like those other gifts.
"John, would you be so kind as to come and help in the supper room," Miss Sessions's hasty tones broke in. She was leaning on Charlie Conroy's arm, and when she departed to hide Johnnie safely away in the depths of their impromptu kitchen, it left the two men alone together. Conroy promptly fastened upon the other. Charlie Conroy was a young man who had made up his mind to get on socially.
He saw that Johnnie Green was a good fisherman. Before he moved on he caught three big fish from that pool; and one of them the biggest of the three was the very fish on which Timothy Turtle had been expecting to dine that day. It was really no wonder that he was annoyed. And when Johnnie went further up the creek to try his luck elsewhere Timothy Turtle slipped into the water and followed him.
The cowboy pushed and jostled feverishly at the Swede, and the Easterner and Scully clung wildly to Johnnie; but, through the smoky air, above the swaying bodies of the peace-compellers, the eyes of the two warriors ever sought each other in glances of challenge that were at once hot and steely.
"Where did you get the money to hire schooners and corrupt captains?" Branch inquired. "You were broke when I knew you." O'Reilly hesitated; he lowered his voice to a whisper. "We found the Varona treasure." Norine uttered a cry. "Not Don Esteban's treasure?" "Exactly. It was in the well where young Esteban told us it was." "Oh, Johnnie! You mean thing!" exclaimed the girl. "You promised "
The sight gave Mandy a curious satisfaction, as though it uttered what she would fain have said to the classes above her. Hers was something the feeling which the private in the ranks has for the standard-bearer who carries the colours aloft, or the dashing officer who leads the charge. Johnnie was the challenge she would have flung in the face of the enemy.
I didn't want to go my head was plumb full of the silver-mine business, an' I jest wanted to git down to you quick as I could. The minute I said 'Johnnie, Rudd 'lowed he wanted to warn me about you down in the Cottonville mills. He went over all that stuff concerning Lura, an' how she'd been killed off in the mill folk's hospital and her body shipped to Cincinnati and sold.
Word Of The Day