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Sometimes he cast a leaden eye outdoors when his dogs were exercised from the kennel; rarely, and always unwillingly, he followed Malcourt to the hatchery to watch the stripping, or to the exotic pheasantry to inspect the breeding of birds entirely out of place in such a climate.
Then he asked a question. "Have you seen Bert, the newspaper boy? For the second morning he disappoints me." But Bert himself appeared at the same moment and the postman went his way. "No newspaper on Saturday how was that?" asked Mr. Churchouse. "I was dreadful ill and my mother wouldn't let me go outdoors," explained the boy.
Tell her I'll come up the woodsy side of her garden and I'll be wearing my pink sunbonnet and third best gingham apron." Grandma took up a pan of fresh light biscuit, rolled them up in a crisp linen cloth and started out with David. Outdoors she stopped and breathed deeply. "I declare, David, I was almost lonesome before you stepped in but now I feel well, spring mad or something.
TRACEY CLEWS, shaking him violently by the shoulder, that he might remain awake long enough to hear it, "to sum up all, I am satisfied, from the familiar knowledge of this mystery I have already gained, that the end will have something to do with exercise in the Open Air! You'll have to go outdoors for something important. And now good night." "Goornight, sir."
I came out in the train last night with a man I know, and he knows the Fayres and he says they're about the nicest people in Berwick." "Pooh! I don't think so. She's a prim old thing, and doesn't know B from broomstick." "There, there, Dotty Doodle, don't be hasty in your judgment. Give the little lady a chance." Later, Dotty and her father walked round the outdoors part of their new domain.
Down on North Main is where I catch the gent from the East who will fall for anything that wears a Stetson and some outdoors complexion. I tell all about my ledge in the Mojave and get staked to go out and prospect. It's bein' done every day it and the other fella." "But, Red " "Hold on, kid. I ain't goin' to bunk nobody. This here's square.
Fast or slow, it would not take long to cover the twelve miles over the macadamized road to the hospital in the city, and if it was to be her last bath in the good outdoors for some time, as the doctor had said King drew a long breath, filling his own sturdy lungs with the balmy yet potent April air, feeling very sorry for the unknown little person by his side.
After a moment's petting the young man led him outdoors, and there began to bridle and saddle him, slowly, with many pauses for breath, all as if it hurt him, as indeed it must, since he still wore the white bandages. Then there appeared a group of interested young men, suddenly, as though they had just discovered the proposed departure.
The morning after we arrived in Riverdale I was up very early and walking around the house. I slept in the woodshed, and could run outdoors whenever I liked. The woodshed was at the back of the house, and near it was the tool shed. Then there was a carriage house, and a plank walk leading to the barnyard. I ran up this walk, and looked into the first building I came to. It was the horse stable.
Roast me dead if I stick my nose outdoors to-night!" "A braw, fine nicht, the nicht, gentlemen," said a sober, ruddy-faced Scot, very gravely, with a lofty contempt for the other's remarks. "Guid, hamelike weather."
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