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He was greatly staggered, however, when he discovered that his young master, after the affair at the harvest- home, had contrived to make his peace at the rectory. "I must bide my time," he said to himself; "but I'll circumscribe 'em yet, as sure as my name's Juniper Graves." So he laid himself out in every possible way to please Frank, and to make himself essential to his comforts and pleasures.
Landless, an angry pain tugging at his heart, kept beside her, for they were passing through a deep hollow in the wood where the gnarled and protruding roots of cypress and juniper made walking difficult, and where a strong hand was needed to push aside the wet and pendent masses of vine.
He had crept near, and had learned that the braves were expected back from the hunt that night, and that the feast was for their welcome. The Fort stood in an open space, with tall trees for a background. In front, here and there, were juniper and tamarac bushes. Pierre laid his plans immediately, and gave the word to move on.
"You can take down and assemble this gun without tools," stated Bartley. "All you need is your fingers." "But what in Sam Hill did you pull her apart for?" "Just to see if I could put her together again." Cheyenne scratched his head, and stepped over to inspect the juniper stump. He stooped, whistled, and turned to Bartley. "Man, you like to sawed that stub in two.
Consequently the few travellers between the two places waited until a train happened along or, if they were in a hurry, engaged a team as the reporter had done. Soon after noon the owner of Juniper, the stolen horse, accompanied by the thick-headed young farm hand from whom the animal had been taken, appeared at the jail in answer to the sheriff's request for his presence.
The cicisbeo is a bony cartilaginous gentleman, fixt perpendicularly on his saddle like a telegraph-pole. We hear a harsh clucking, as of a choked hen, and we recognize the English tongue. Beyond Gèdres is a wild valley called Chaos, which is well named. After a quarter of an hour's journey there, the trees disappear, then the juniper and the box, and finally the moss.
"The trees that have been kind to the little bird with the broken wing may keep their leaves." This is why the leaves of the spruce, the pine, and the juniper are always green. Long, long ago, so the legend says, when Joseph and Mary and the Holy Babe fled out of Bethlehem into Egypt, they passed through the green wildwood. And flowers and trees and plants bent their heads in reverence.
To please his mother, on this the last night of his being at home, he wore the kilts; and he had hung his broad blue bonnet, with its sprig of juniper the badge of the clan on the top of one of many pikes and halberds that stood by the great fireplace.
His search was thorough and, being a keen-eyed young man, he discovered the place where Lorraine had crouched down by a rock. She must have stayed there all night, for the scuffed soil was dry where her body had rested, and her purse, caught in the juniper bush close by, was sodden with rain.
A great many of them must perish of hunger, or be reduced to the necessity of feeding on the berries of the Viburnum and Juniper, should they be overtaken by an extensive and enduring snow that cuts off their journey of emigration. The Woodpeckers and their allied species, though insectivorous, are not thus affected by the winter.
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