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"No, not a single thing; we were out-doors almost all the time after I made the call, but she says she has brought me some presents." "I wonder what they are?" said Mrs. Beck, much pleased. "There's one thing about the Leicesters, they are all generous where they take a liking. But then, they have got plenty to do with; everybody hasn't.
On the morning after the occurrences above related, he laid abed later than usual even with him. His father had gone to the store, and the children were out-doors at play, before he made his appearance at the breakfast-table. He sat down to the deserted table, and was helping himself to the cold remnants of the meal, when his mother entered the room.
"Kicking up her heels on the stage," as Abel Baragar had said; but, somehow, not as it was before she went West to give her perforated lung to the healing air of the plains, and to live out-doors with the men a man's life.
Desire Ledwith stood with a thoughtful, troubled expression in her own. "There ought to be other ways," she said. "There ought to be more sheltered work for girls!" "There is," said little Bel Bree from the doorway "in houses. If I hadn't Aunt Blin, I'd go right into a family as seamstress or anything. I don't believe in out-doors and shops.
But it wuzn't on the piazza of a house, it wuz out-doors, and the pedestal wuz over twenty feet high, all covered with carvin's of seens took from his "Divinia Commedia," and some lions, and the arms of Italy, and things.
It'll be just as good as out-doors, and no one will know where we are or come to interrupt us. Don't you think it would be nice? Do come, Laura." "Delicious! Come along, girls," answered Laura, crumpling her soft sun-bonnet into a heap, and throwing it up into the air, as if it had been a ball. "Oh, may we come too?" pleaded little Tom and Rosy Bury.
Going up-stairs, she looked that the window was shut, and the nail, its only fastening, put in above the lower sash. Anybody inside could have opened it, of course, but that did not occur to her. Each of the windows was thus treated, and, beckoning to Katharine, she led the way out-doors. The door was locked on the outside and Susanna started homeward.
The tithing-man, who carried a long rod and kept order in the house, and out-doors at noontime, sat in the gallery, and visited any boy who whispered or found curious passages in the Bible and showed them to another boy. It was an awful moment when the bushy-headed tithing-man approached a boy in sermon-time.
When Teddy opened the bundle he saw a cunning little bisque doll that sat in a little tin bath-tub. You could take the doll out and dress it, or you could really bathe it in the tub. "Oh! isn't that cute!" cried Teddy, with delight. "Won't little Cousin Harriett be pleased!" "I hope she will," said mamma. TEDDY was to go out-doors the next day if it was mild and pleasant.
"Miss Doc may be home by now," objected Keno, apprehensively. "Well, then, sneak up and see if she has gone off real mad." "S'posen she 'ain't?" Keno promptly hedged. "S'posen she seen me?" "You've got all out-doors to skedaddle in, I reckon." Keno, however, had many objections to any manner of venture with the wily Miss Dennihan.
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