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"If you don't peel the potatoes, and some one else has to do it, then you won't eat any hot dinner to-day. That's flat." "Isn't Dick Prescott just a mean bully?" growled Hen to himself, as the "relief" stepped outdoors to resume work. "See that Hen keeps busy peeling and washing potatoes," Dick advised Greg in passing. Then the three rested shovelers took up the task.
And will ye be afther takin' a picter wid that schmall bit av a black box? How do ye do it at all, I do' know." "Oh, I go into a dark closet and put a gelatine plate in the box, and then I go outdoors and take my picture." "A gilitin plate, is it?
You couldn't breathe, and the dirt was something fierce. It was like a pigpen. I sure was glad to get outdoors again. And then well, the Kid came around all right and they got him on a horse and gave him something out of a bottle Jap Kemp had, and pretty soon he could ride again. Why, you'd oughta seen his nerve.
The lady looked fearfully about. "I cannot deny you. Truly it is no night to be outdoors. Stay then and welcome." Morning found the storm in no wise abated. The lady of the castle did not appear at the morning meal. But the old man was there to serve them. He too, seemed much disturbed and made as if to have speech with Sir Galahad, once or twice. "What troubles your pate, old man?"
Such a chasing around and over benches, and upsetting the water-bucket, and tearing up Jack generally that teacher would say, "Boys! boys! If you can't play quietly, you'll have to go out of doors!" Play quietly! Why, the idea! What kind of play is it when you are right still? Outdoors in the country, you can whoop and holler, and carry on, and nobody complains to the board of health.
There was a rocker by the one window, and a pot of geraniums on the sill; forming a kind of window seat was a long seaman's chest. At the other end of the room there was a desk covered with green oilcloth, and above it was a shelf containing some books and a clock. The woman took off her hat and jacket and brushed back her hair, then turning back her sleeves went outdoors again.
You're gettin' as touchy as the little touch-me-nots we get on the hill; they all snap shut when you touch 'em only you snap open." Phœbe laughed. "I guess I am excited," she admitted. "I'm sewing too much for summer days and it makes me irritable. I think I'll let the butterflies wait and I'll go outdoors. Shall I weed the garden?" "Weed the garden? Now you're talkin' dumb!
I made use of my leisure moments outdoors in tracing any figures on the ground that happened to come into my head. At seven or eight, I remember, I made a picture by lamplight of a man with a beard, which I have kept until this very day. When my father saw it he went into transports of joy, exclaiming, "You will be a painter, child, if ever there was one!"
When this was open they could not feel any breeze at all, and it seemed as though it was not worth opening, but the mother said it was exactly right, for it made a draught, and carried all the dust gently outdoors.
This was so unexpected that Rolf turned red and gazed on the ground. Van Cortlandt at once began to clear things by interjecting: "You see, I'm not strong. I want to live outdoors for three months, where I can have some hunting and be beyond reach of business. I'll pay you a hundred dollars for the three months, to cover board and guidance.
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