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But Kit was innocent; and knowing this, and feeling that his best friends deemed him guilty that Mr and Mrs Garland would look upon him as a monster of ingratitude that Barbara would associate him with all that was bad and criminal that the pony would consider himself forsaken and that even his own mother might perhaps yield to the strong appearances against him, and believe him to be the wretch he seemed knowing and feeling all this, he experienced, at first, an agony of mind which no words can describe, and walked up and down the little cell in which he was locked up for the night, almost beside himself with grief.
But don't be crabbed, Kit! You know how interested I am in all your affairs. 'It is only that I have composed an air to one of the prettiest of her songs, "When tapers tall" but I am not sure about the power of it. This is how it begins I threw it off in a few minutes, after you had gone to bed.
For several minutes it was nip and tuck which should reach the stream first, but Kit got there by a scratch a little ahead. It was a big bend of the river, and the water was deep under the bank, but it was paradise compared with the hades plunging at his back; so Kit leaped into the water, trusting to Providence that the bull would not follow.
He smiled like a mischievous young archangel, masquerading in Service kit.
Daniel Morgan Boone is said to have been the first settler in Kansas . One of Daniel's grandsons, bearing the name of Albert Gallatin Boone, was a pioneer of Colorado and was to the forefront in Rocky Mountain exploration. Another grandson was the scout, Kit Carson, who led Fremont to California. "No, I never got lost," Boone replied reflectively, "but I was BEWILDERED once for three days."
So to-night the spirit of adversity whirled him about from the driveway, and he sped down the long lane with Kit in fast pursuit. Overhead the mulberry trees met in a leafy arcade, and out of the hazel thicket a whippoorwill called, flying low down the lane after the two darting forms, as if it were trying to find out what the excitement was about at that time of night.
No sooner had he made this proposition than he was seconded by Lieutenant Beale, then of the United States Navy, who, equally as brave and daring as Kit Carson, volunteered his services in the undertaking. This gentleman, since the time he first turned landsman up to the present date, has been adding fresh laurels to his fame.
'Why, how did he come here, mother? whispered Kit. 'I don't know how he came or why, my dear, rejoined Mrs Nubbles, dismounting with her son's assistance, 'but he has been a terrifying of me out of my seven senses all this blessed day. 'He has? cried Kit. 'You wouldn't believe it, that you wouldn't, replied his mother, 'but don't say a word to him, for I really don't believe he's human. Hush!
"I think I can explain how the mistake arose," said Sir Timothy, stiffly. "Peter wrote for permission to join, and I refused. My son is fortunately too young to be of any use in a contest I regard with horror." "But Cousin George was helping Peter to get his kit, because they were to sail at such short notice," cried Sarah.
Like the hunter he was, Dick Staunton had moved without a sound, and now stood directly between Jesson and the door. "But don't go yet. I want to tell you a story that may amuse you. Have some tea." "Er won't it keep till some other time, Major? I'm rather anxious to see about my kit." "Let the kit keep. Sit down and have some tea." "What the devil has come over you, Dickie?"
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