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Some time after, the class was removed to Fox Lake, it being only three miles distant. I now returned again to Waupun to spend the Sabbath. The Class Leader at this time was S.A.L. Davis, who came to the place during the preceding year. Brother Davis was an old neighbor from the East, a noble and true man, and, withal, had been my first Leader.
He has taken time by the foretop; and will be sure to go before, or drive his business; while his more tardy neighbor 'suffers his business to drive him. There is something striking in the feeling produced by beginning a day's work thus seasonably. It gives an impulse to a man's thoughts, speech, and actions, which usually lasts through the day.
Uncle Bill stood conjecturing as to who it might be, as though it were of importance that he should know before he left. Interest in his neighbor and his neighbor's business is a strong characteristic of the miner and prospector in these, our United States, and Uncle Bill Griswold in this respect was no exception. It troubled him for hours that he could not guess who was placering below.
And at last she confided to Grumpy that her neighbor was a jealous creature and sure to speak ill of a stranger who came to call on anybody but herself. Well, Grumpy Weasel told Mrs. Hen that he knew, when he first set eyes on her, that she was a sensible little body. "You've a snug home here," he went on. "I can tell you that I'd like such a place to crawl into on a chilly, wet night."
My next-door neighbor, so to speak, got a shrapnel bullet in his tin, and another two doors off had his biscuit shot out of his hand." Lieutenant A.C. Johnstone, the Hants county cricketer, after escaping other bullets and shells which were dancing around him, was hit over the heart by a spent bullet, which on reaching hospital he found in his left-hand breast pocket.
Moses Miller, my uncle, who had been for several years his neighbor. I employed him at once, for the balance of the year, at Charlestown, a new charge that I had just formed. He was admitted on trial at the ensuing Conference, and appointed to Sheboygan.
Such clamor of tongues such patriotic bawling such running hither and thither everybody in a hurry everybody in trouble everybody in the way, and everybody interrupting his neighbor who is busily employed in doing nothing!
The saddle that had been on the colt was strapped about him with the bridle, for both had been borrowed from a neighbor. "Dionnisis an' I must both ride the same horse," said he, "an' as we have two saddles, I must carry one of them." An altercation then ensued as to which should ride foremost.
"Some of the prisoners had contrived to pick the lock of the door; and as it was not discovered the door remained unfastened. "After we had missed our neighbor prisoners, and had ascertained to our satisfaction their mode of operation, the members of our mess determined to seize the first opportunity that offered to attempt our escape.
The doctor answered her ring, and greeted her, "Well, well? how's the good neighbor?" The good neighbor charged into the living-room, waving the most unctuous of black kid gloves and delightedly sputtering: "You may well ask how I am! I really do wonder how I could go through the awful scenes of this day and the impudence I took from that woman's tongue, that ought to be cut out " "Whoa! Whoa!
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