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When I wish to know if he is at home, I go and rap upon his tree, and, if he is not too lazy or indifferent, after some delay he shows his head in his round doorway about ten feet above, and looks down inquiringly upon me sometimes latterly I think half resentfully, as much as to say, "I would thank you not to disturb me so often."
"Oxen eat grass and hay and meal," said Dodo, in great haste lest some one else should speak first. "Sheep eat grass and hay too. I've seen them over in the pasture on the hill," said Nat. "Pigs will eat any old sort of thing," said Rap. "Sour milk and snakes and swill and rats." "Ugh!" shivered Dodo. "Are all those nasty things in sausages?"
Among the bushes out in the garden a rifle was hidden; slung under his left arm pit was a dependable friend; and in his heart he was spoiling for a row. Such was his mood, an hour after he had gone to his room, when a rap discreetly announced a soft-footed somebody at his door. He rose eagerly, thinking it would be Bruce or perhaps Barlow.
He had carried his copy of the letter along, and if his instructions required him in case of emergency to see that it fell into the hands of the Boers, he loyally carried them out. Mrs. Hammond gives him a sharp rap for his supposed carelessness, and emphasizes her feeling about it with burning italics: "It was picked up on the battle-field in a leathern pouch, supposed to be Dr.
They resumed the feast; and again the sharp rap sounded upon the window pane, caused by the clicking of a heavy nail suspended from the window sash by a pin and string, and yanked by somebody at the end of a longer string attached swinging in against the glass. There came a yell of surprise shortly; and, in a moment, there appeared John Ellison clutching the culprit by the collar.
Kate and I always killed our fish at once by a rap on the head, for it certainly saved the poor creatures much discomfort, and ourselves as well, and it made it easier to take them off the hook than if they were flopping about and making us aware of our cruelty. Suddenly the captain wound up his line and said he thought we'd better be going in, and Kate and I looked at him with surprise.
"I will go up and bring my sister down to breakfast." The furnishing and decorating of Mary Burton's apartments had engrossed her brother's interest for some weeks prior to her arrival and when in answer to his rap a silvery voice said, "Come in," he stood on the threshold of a boudoir as richly and tastefully detailed as a princess of the blood royal could have asked.
If any are unwell or tired, it is but a little matter to rap at the elder's door, or ask a companion to do it, where any one may receive liberty to retire to rest if it is expedient. All pass the stairs and corridors, and enter the hall, two abreast, upon tiptoe, bowing once as they enter, and pass directly to their place in the forming ranks.
Should there be a difficulty as to discovering the criminal, all the men of the tribes amongst whom the murderer could be stand round the coffin. A head man says to the corpse, 'Did such and such a man harm you? naming, one after another, all the men. At the guilty one's name the corpse is said to knock a sort of rap, rap, rap. That man has to stand his trial.
The colour ceases to exist if I shut my eyes, the sensation of hardness ceases to exist if I remove my arm from contact with the table, the sound ceases to exist if I cease to rap the table with my knuckles. But I do not believe that when all these things cease the table ceases.
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