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His conversation at the supper-table that night related almost entirely to puppy-dogs and the best way of training them. He kept a close eye upon his daughter for the next day or two, but human nature has its limits. He tried to sleep one afternoon in his easy- chair with one eye open, but the exquisite silence maintained by Miss Ward was too much for it.
"Does the boy think I'm a wild Indian?" The question was addressed to me, but I could not say, so kept a discreet silence. Thomas relieved me from my difficulty by answering, "No," thoughtfully. "Then why stare so? I'm sure I don't know what boys are made of, nowadays." "Slugs and snails and puppy-dogs' tails," was the dreamy answer. "Thomas, how dare you?
She and I still have our tiffs, but I have never since then forgotten to lift my hat to Irene. I should be sorry to have it thought, as you may now be thinking, that I look on children as on puppy-dogs, who care only for play.
So we let the great beasts be, only shooting one or two in self-protection. In this district, the elephants, being unacquainted with the hunter and his tender mercies, would allow one to walk up to within twenty yards of them in the open, while they stood, with their great ears cocked for all the world like puzzled and gigantic puppy-dogs, and stared at that new and extraordinary phenomenon man.
Four thousand! dear me who will make them. Do you know?" This question was addressed to his youngest clerk, who sat on the opposite side of the desk staring at Mr. Jollyboy with that open impudence of expression peculiar to young puppy-dogs whose masters are unusually indulgent. "No, sir, I don't," said the clerk with a broad grin.
There is a danger lest they should taste the dear delight too early; for youngsters, as you may have observed, when they first get the taste in their mouths, argue for amusement, and are always contradicting and refuting others in imitation of those who refute them; like puppy-dogs, they rejoice in pulling and tearing at all who come near them.
To live like the birds of the air was his motto. Gyp would have liked nothing better; but, for that, one must not have a house with three servants, several meals, two puppy-dogs, and no great experience of how to deal with any of them. She spoke of her difficulties to no one and suffered the more.
'Sdeath, nephew Morton, but I won't scold thee, though thou deservest it. Let me see, thou art now scarce twenty, and thou talkest of marriage, which is the exclusive business of middle age, as familiarly as "girls of thirteen do of puppy-dogs." Marry! go hang thyself rather.
Four thousand! dear me who will make them. Do you know?" This question was addressed to his youngest clerk, who sat on the opposite side of the desk staring at Mr Jollyboy with that open impudence of expression peculiar to young puppy-dogs whose masters are unusually indulgent. "No, sir, I don't," said the clerk with a broad grin.
Her sharp wit and ready spirit will teach us what is best to be done. I am not so much indisposed, thou understandest." "And I?" said the page "You?" replied Catherine, "you are quite well who thinks it worth while to poison puppy-dogs or pages?" "Does this levity become the time?" asked the page.
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