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For he had just drawn it out of an envelope handed to him, as he reached home, by the mail-carrier. "And it had come so strangely and so naturally! For the check was from a woman who was profoundly interested in his work, and who had sent the check knowing that in a general way it was needed, but without the least idea that there was any immediate need.
Presently, Chillis sat up and looked about him. "Have you got me the oars?" he said to the mail-carrier. "You won't row any more to-night, Joe, I guess," the carrier answered, smiling grimly. "Look at your shoulder, man." "Shoulder be d d!" retorted Chillis. "Beg pardon, ladies; I didn't see you.
We are sixty miles from the railroad, but when we want anything we send by the mail-carrier for it, only there is nothing to get. I know this is an inexcusably long letter, but it is snowing so hard and you know how I like to talk. I am sure Jerrine will enjoy the cards and we will be glad to get them.
A day or two after the corporal's discovery, the mail-carrier left some letters at the Prescott homestead, and when it was getting dusk Gertrude strolled out on the prairie, thinking of one she had received. After a while Prescott joined her and she greeted him with a smile.
He thinks he's back on the summer campaign again, and his talk is all of the Antelope Springs affair. Odd! this makes the third man to come back from Boynton's party, two with typhoid fever and one with the mail-carrier and a bottle, Brannan I mean, and they all talk about that. From what I have gathered it would seem that Devers blamed Mr.
I'll be sendin' Bill Brennen wid it, afore sun-up to-morrow." "And who will take it from Witless Bay to St. John's?" asked Flora. "Foxey Garge Hudson, the Queen's own mail-carrier. There bes a post-office in Witless Bay," returned the skipper. "He makes the trip to St. John's once every week in winter-time, bar flurries an' fog, an' maybe twice every week in the summer-time.
"It would be a strange condition of things where nothing did happen," I answered; and just then the horn of the mail-carrier sounded, and the lumbering four-horse coach rattled down the street in sight of our windows. "There," I said, "is your U. S. M. safe and sound, road-agents and land-slides to the contrary and of no effect."
To Minnetaki he wrote three times each week, and three times each week the little maiden at Wabinosh House wrote long, cheering letters to her brother though they came to Wabi only about twice a month, because only so often did the mail-carrier go out from the Post. It was at this time in his lonely school life that Wabigoon became acquainted with Roderick Drew.
As his first witness he would call the mail-carrier. Bud had sat perfectly stolid during the harangue. Once he reached down with one long arm and scratched his bare ankle with his forefinger, his eyes, with the gentle light in them that had first attracted me, glancing aimlessly about the room; then he settled back again in his chair, its back creaking to the strain of his shoulders.
Geb, Gebrer, Algebra, Gebruderbuh, I am a big fool." "But it is no matter, she shall have an answer," he shouted after a while, and seated himself to write a long, glowing love-letter. When it was finished and read, he tore it in pieces. "No," said he, "if destiny has intended the least thing by acting to me as mail-carrier through the window, let me act reasonably."
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