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"Let's get to the clover field, for I like to see people work." "You do, eh? "snapped Peppery Polly. "Yes! Watching others work is play for me," he remarked cheerfully. "And I hope to have as much fun to-night as I would have had if I'd gone to the dance over near the swamp." "Are you fond of music?" Peppery Polly asked him suddenly. "Am I?" he exclaimed. "I should say I was!"

Use your cutlass there." Apart from the peppery discourses of my kinsman, I remember very little of the trip up the St. Lawrence from Ste. Anne to Lachine with Eric sitting dazed and silent opposite me.

You'd never think now, would you, that she was a red Redmayne one of us short of temper, peppery, fiery? But she was, as a youngster. Her father had the Redmayne qualities more developed than any of us and he handed 'em down. She was a wilful thing plucky and fond of mischief.

She was the last in the world to set two people by the ears. "Now don't you be so peppery, father," said she. "There is nothing to make a quarrel about." "Yes there is, though, if that ignorant beggar insulted my friend." "No! no! no!" "Why, what did you say?" "I say that here is Mr. Clinton coming to the door." "Let him in, girl, let him in. And you needn't stay. We are going to talk business."

"Here's a big blossom you haven't tasted!" he called to her suddenly. And Peppery Polly thinking that Freddie meant a clover blossom hastened to a bloom that Freddie pointed out to her. She settled upon it quickly. And the next moment Peppery Polly gave a sharp cry of mingled rage and pain. "What's the matter?" Freddie Firefly asked her. "Matter!" she exclaimed.

What remains to be told is the daily occupation of Captain Grant, myself, and our private servants. Beginning at the foot: Rahan, a very peppery little negro, who had served in a British man-of-war at the taking of Rangoon, was my valet; and Baraka, who had been trained much in the same manner, but had seen engagements at Multan, was Captain Grant's.

Dick Blaine, who scarcely ever touched strong liquor, having had intimate acquaintance with abuse of it in Western mining camps, had to sit and endure the spectacle of Tom's chief weakness, glass after glass of the fiery stuff descending into a stomach long since rendered insatiable by soldiering on peppery food in a climate that is no man's friend. He protested a dozen times.

Well, Jeb mos' fell off his cheer, when, ef he hadn't been sech a skeery idgit, he'd 'a' knowed that Polly Ann was plain open an' shet a-biddin' fer him. But he sot thar like a knot on a log fer haffen hour, an' then he rickollected, I reckon, that Abe had tol' him Polly Ann was peppery an' he mustn't mind, fer Jeb begun a-movin' ag'in till he was slam-bang agin Polly Ann's cheer.

Dawson getting up and going to the door. "I'm a plain man, you know " "Then, sir, all I can say is that I object to plain men." "I say, who are you? One would think you were a duke or somebody, you're so peppery. Dressed up" Mr. Dawson glanced at the suit of pedagogic black into which Fritzing had once more relapsed "dressed up as a street preacher."

Presently he comes into your spring. "Of course," you say, "I saw what you were driving at just this minute, when you mentioned mustard in salad dressing, but if I am peppery I am not mean. And if I have a thing to say I say it straight out." A good gambit this, and well into him from the start.