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"Once that fellow Mills I hate his fishy eyes! looked straight at me and said, 'See the poor old mud-hen'!" She began to weep softly. Maizie sprang to comfort her, stroking the stringy gray hair with tender, youthful fingers. "Mother quit the market after that. She hasn't been near Pauper Alley for a year ... not since I've been working at the Mineral Cafe.
The doctor says that his medicine was good, but that a prairie dog had entered into the body of the Dahcotah, and he thought it had been a mud-hen. Magnanimous doctor! All honor, that you can allow yourself in error. While the friends of the dead warrior are rending the air with their cries, we will find out what is going on in the next wigwam. What a contrast!
More articulate noises strike your ear the sharp-clucking lectures on propriety of the mud-hen to its young; the brek-kek-kek, coaz-coaz of the frog; the splash of a tumbling turtle; the rushing of a flock of startled ducks rising on swift wings; the sprightly contagious laughter of those little elves the marsh-wrens, teetering on the elastic leaves of the cat-tails.
The storekeeper mentally kicked himself. "The idea of suggesting a thing like that," he growled inwardly, "when she hadn't even thought of it! John Lounsbury, you've got about as much sense as a fool mud-hen." "And," went on Marylyn, "there's the ladies at Fort Brannon. If pa " She hesitated. Lounsbury shook his head, smiling.
He dropped his empty revolver, ducked like a mud-hen on his horse's neck, threw back his leg, and, with all the precision he could summon, caught the grip of his muley in both hands. He made his fall heavily to the ground, landing on his shoulder.
I'm used to the gumbo regular mud-hen. Just add my power to yours. Have you a tow-rope?" "No. I never thought of bringing one." "I'll get mine." She walked with him back toward his bug. It lacked not only top and side-curtains, but even windshield and running-board. It was a toy a card-board box on toothpick axles. Strapped to the bulging back was a wicker suitcase partly covered by tarpaulin.
"'It may be a mud-hen, said the professor. "'Miss Holroyd is right, I said. 'A wagon and team and two men are coming from the north. There's a dog beside the wagon it's that miserable yellow dog of Frisby's. "'Good gracious! cried the professor, 'you don't mean to tell me that you see all that at such a distance? "'Why not? I said. "'I see nothing, he insisted.
"Well, let me shuffle again now take a look! When Smilax left with her order, I sent a note to the mate, telling him to bring both yachts down. Then we'll have to split the crew, and in the mix-up I'll see that you and she get on the Whim, while Monsieur sails on But I see you get me! If you can't stifle her conscience before we reach Miami, you're a mud-hen."
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