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Their effect would be scarcely distinguishable from that of the primeval forests, but for the Klem stragglers; these may be dimly observed, when the heavy shadows fall, flitting to and fro, putting up the door-chain, taking in the pint of beer, lowering like phantoms at the dark parlour windows, or secretly consorting underground with the dust- bin and the water-cistern.
Where she made it up for the night I cannot positively state, but, I think, in a sink. I know that with the instinct of a reptile or an insect, she stowed it and herself away in deep obscurity. In the Klem family, I have noticed another remarkable gift of nature, and that is a power they possess of converting everything into flue. Klem, and the threadbare coat of her husband. Mrs.
"Perhaps the farmer will be more careful and keep him roped up." When Tom and Sam came up with the hats and the basket Isaac Klem accompanied them. "All right, Helen?" he asked. "And you too, Alice?" "Yes, Mr. Klem," said the tall girl. "But it was a narrow escape. The bull would have gored us if it hadn't been for these young gentlemen." The girls thanked Tom and Sam for what they had brought.
The most extraordinary circumstance I have traced in connexion with this aged couple, is, that there is a Miss Klem, their daughter, apparently ten years older than either of them, who has also a bed and smells of it, and carries it about the earth at dusk and hides it in deserted houses. I came into this piece of knowledge through Mrs.
But, gosh! that guy Klem is one swell robber! See here!" Mr. Crocker sprang down from the desk, and snatched up a handful of books, which he proceeded to distribute about the floor. "There were two men on bases in the sixth and What's-his-name came to bat. He lined one out to centre-field where this book is and " "Pull yourself together, Skinner!
Conn shook his head. "I'm serious about the ship ships. You and Colonel Zareff gave me that idea." His father looked at him in surprise. "I never said a word in there, and Klem didn't even once mention " "Not in Kurt's office; before we went up from the docks. There was Klem, moaning about a good year for melons as though it were a plague, and you selling arms and ammunition by the ton.
On the way they passed the farm of one Isaac Klem, a man who took great pride in his poultry and his cattle. Klem had forty cows, and two bulls which were worth a good deal of money. One of the bulls, a black, vicious looking fellow, was tied up in a small lot at the corner of the farm.
"You had better come over into the lot!" said one of the girls. "He may come back." "Here comes Mr. Klem with a pitchfork," said the other. A farmer was rushing down the road, with a pitchfork in one hand and a rope in the other. He ran up to the bull and slipped the rope over the animal's neck. Then he tied the creature to a tree. "Pretty savage animal you've got," observed Tom as he came up.
"I've told Isaac Klem about that bull," said Mr. Staton. "Some day he'll do a whole lot of damage." "We are going to keep a good lookout for him in the future," put in Alice. "I don't wish to be scared out of my wits again." Before the boys left Mrs. Staton insisted on treating each to a piece of apple pie and a glass of milk. "What did I tell you about pie?" whispered Tom.
You've forgotten what it's like to live in a poorhouse. And that's what Poictesme is." "Things'll be better from now on, Klem," the mayor said, putting one hand on the old man's shoulder and the other on Conn's. "Our boy's home. With what he can tell us, we'll be able to solve all our problems. Come on, let's go up and hear about it."
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