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Prince nodded. "Suits me. We'll make our stand right at the head of the arroyo." He turned abruptly to the girl. "It's got to be good-bye here, Miss Lee." "That's whatever, littlest pilgrim," agreed Clanton promptly. "If you get a chance send word to Webb an' tell him how it was with us." Her lip trembled. She knew that in the shadow of the immediate future red tragedy lurked.
He had not forgotten the dark eyes of Isabel smiling to him over the pink azaleas. "Where you goin', Mart?" asked his mother. "Over to Landisville to church?" "No just out for a little while." "Take me with," coaxed the littlest Landis, now five years old and the ninth in line. "Ach, go on!" spoke up an older Landis boy, "what d'you think Mart wants with you? He's goin' to see his girl.
"I don't have to!" asserted Miss Vanderwall, with a hearty kiss nevertheless, "for it will be your own fault entirely if there's ever the littlest, teeniest cloud in the sky!"
And again she glowed upon Solon with the condescending sweetness of a Sabbath-school teacher to the littlest boy in her class.
I had a curious conversation about politics once, away up to the right here. Do you see that are house, said he, in the field, that's got a lurch to leeward, like a north river sloop, struck with a squall, off West Point, lopsided like? It looks like Seth Pine, a tailor down to Hartford, that had one leg shorter than tother, when he stood at ease at militia trainin, a restin on the littlest one.
"A bear caught me. A big black bear! He is going to eat me as soon as he comes back with the apple sauce. Save me!" "Indeed I will," said the little brother. And with his sharp teeth he gnawed through the grape vine string, and then his brother was free. "Come on!" exclaimed the littlest pig. "We must run home away from the bear!"
You said you were, too, and I said you couldn't because you were littlest. Do you remember?" Natalie sank her head slowly in assent. Her lower lip trembled. Suddenly she laughed and sprang to her feet. "Come on," she cried, "or we'll be late for supper. I'll beat you to the fence." She was off with a rush, but Lewis got to the fence first. He helped her over with mock ceremony.
As for our days, if it wasn't for calendars we wouldn't know one from the other, except Sundays, for, unlike the stars mentioned by St. Paul, they differ not. The rising-bell rings at five o'clock, and all except the very littlest get up and clean up until seven, when we march into the dining-room.
In the other picture these meritorious persons were flying dizzily through the air at the very top of the great tent, from trapeze to trapeze, with the littlest boy happily in the greatest danger, midway in the air between the two proud parents, who were hurling him back and forth.
"'Listen! says he. "And I listened and but you won't believe this part " "I will." "Well, I heared him playin'! Not loud not very near but so clear not one of the littlest, tinkly notes was lost. I never heard playin' like that no, mam! And the ward was still. I never heard the ward still, like that. I think I went to sleep listenin'. I don't know."