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"Yes, Helen, go," urged her mother. "I can attend to everything." "A long day, did you stipulate?" said the girl in ready assent; "that means we should take a lunch. I don't believe you ever thought of that." "We could crack nuts, rob apple-orchards, or if driven to extremity, raid a farmhouse." "You have heard too much from the soldiers about living off the country.
Fitzgerald, the job printer, examined the machinery carefully and again McGaffey screwed nuts and regulated the press. Then he turned on the power; the big cylinder revolved; the white paper reeled out like a long ribbon and with a rattle and thump the first copy of the Millville Daily Tribune was deposited, cut and folded, upon the table placed to receive it.
"Do you eat nuts like the rest of our family?" inquired Striped Chipmunk. "No," replied Johnny Chuck. "Give me green food every time. There is nothing so good as tender sweet clover and young grass, unless it be some of those fine vegetables Farmer Brown grows in his garden" Peter Rabbit nodded his head very emphatically as if he quite agreed.
One day I had been sitting with Cynthia, and the child was playing on the floor with some little things stones, bits of sticks, nuts which it had collected. It was a mysterious game too, accompanied with much impressive talk and gesticulations, much emphatic lecturing of recalcitrant pebbles, with interludes of unaccountable laughter.
These islands are full of that species of palm tree which bears the cocoa nuts, and they are from one to four leagues distant from each other, all inhabited. The wealth of the inhabitants consists in shells, of which even the royal treasury is full. The workmen in these islands are exceedingly expert, and make shirts and vests, or tunics, all of one piece, of the fibres of the cocoa nut.
Wherever he shows himself, delusion follows delusion, and every one redounds to his advantage, for whoever took him for an insignificant man must doff his hat when he utters his name. If a shrewd fellow supposed that this sheep would not know A from B, he'll soon give him nuts to crack which are far too hard for many a learned master of arts.
"You poor thing!" said Christine, and put her cheek against Sidney's. "Why, you're positively thin! Palmer gives you a month to tire of it all; but I said " "I take that back," Palmer spoke indolently from the corridor. "There is the look of willing martyrdom in her face. Where is Reginald? I've brought some nuts for him." "Reginald is back in the woods again." "Now, look here," he said solemnly.
"No, my friend," replied the musketeer, "I am off and that quickly. I will sup with you, go to bed, sleep five hours, and at break of day leap into my saddle. Has my horse had an extra feed?" "Eh! my dear master," replied Planchet, "you know very well that your horse is the jewel of the family; that my lads are caressing it all day, and cramming it with sugar, nuts, and biscuits.
Brownie asked. "You mean down the river," said Townsend. "I'm facing " "Don't try to find out where you're facing," said Townsend. "Here, eat a prune." "I'm going to turn in pretty soon," said Nuts. "That's a new place to turn," said Townsend. "We've turned everywhere but in. In the morning we'll turn out; then we will have turned everywhere."
From the tree they began to hurl nuts at the Pumpkinhead, who laughed at them as he helped the two children to their feet. Now, at the top of this tree was a big dead limb, and so many squirrels gathered upon it that suddenly it broke away and fell to the ground.
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