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The children huddled together as close as they could, and the oldest boy explained. When he broke down the oldest girl piped up and helped him. "Well," said the Snow Man, "I haven't seen the silver hen. I never did see any hens in these woods, but she may be around here for all that. You had better go home with me and spend the night. My wife will be delighted to see you.
"Anyway, you're better off than Mrs. Ladybug is," somebody piped up. "Why, what's happened to her?" Freddie Firefly inquired. "Haven't you heard?" several of his cousins cried. "No! no!" he shouted. "Her house caught fire to-night, while she was away from home," they explained. "I thought I smelled smoke as I was coming back from the railroad," Freddie observed.
We'll buy the things we want, an' then we'll walk all along the street, so you can look in the windows an' see the han'some things, same's your mother likes to. What was it mother told you about your shawls?" "To take 'em off an' carry 'em over our arms," piped Susan Ellen, without comment, but in the interest of alighting and finding themselves afoot upon the pavement the shawls were forgotten.
Let him go with a plain-clothes man to find out where he heads for and then wire that outfit that piped him off when he came here. That'll settle him." There may have been more of it, but I did not wait to hear. Speed was my best chance now, and I slipped out noiselessly and ran for the railroad station.
"I do not deserve it," he conceded, to a dilapidated faun, who, though his flute and the hands that held it had been missing for over a quarter of a century, piped, on with unimpaired and fatuous mirth. "Ah, heart of gold demented trinket that you are, I have not merited that you should retain my likeness all these years!
"What's the matter with you, Margery?" questioned Jane. "Matter?" complained Buster. "One might as well try to sleep in that boiler factory at Meadow-Brook as in this camp." "That's so, Little Sunshine; I agree with you. This is a dynamite as well as a boiler factory, with an explosion twice, every day and at least once in the night." "Dynamite?" piped Tommy. "Where ith it?" "There, you see!
Which prevarication was bare-faced, by virtue of his having just installed the ram and piped the land. "It will be the wisest, Billy," she soothed, for she knew his dream of land-spaciousness was stronger than ever. "You don't want to fool with an acre. There's that hundred and forty. We'll buy it yet if old Chavon ever dies. Besides, it really belongs to Madrono Ranch.
When finally Lanyard did consent to seek his stateroom with the pilot dropped and the Sybarite footing it featly over Channel waters to airs piped by a freshening breeze it was to sleep once round the clock and something more; for it was nearly six in the afternoon when he came on deck again.
The Master of the Hounds came out with his yelping pack, and started on his rounds; the Rebel officers aroused themselves from their siesta and went lazily about their duties; the fifer produced his cracked fife and piped forth his unvarying "Bonnie Blue Flag," as a signal for dress parade, and drums beaten by unskilled hands in the camps of the different regiments, repeated the signal.
The ship's company were as busy as bees, bustling and buzzing about the decks, and reminding you of the agitation which takes place in a hive previous to a swarm. At last, Osbaldistone came on deck, and ordered the boats' crews to be piped away, and prepare for service.
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