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By this time they had reached the gate, and Dawn was carelessly inviting him to enter, but he declined in rather a crestfallen tone. "Better invite red-head, not me, if you won't listen to what I say, and pretend you never received my letters." "Thank you for the good advice. I hope he'll accept my invitation, because he is always pleasant and agreeable," she retorted.

Many winged strangers came to feast on the treasures uncovered by the hay-cutter, and then the shy red-head showed himself on our grounds.

The lovers of good order, or at least of fair play, gathered round the combatants, forming an almost impregnable ring, yet of sufficient dimensions to avoid the missiles. "Go it, red-head!" "Bravo! white-apron!" resounded on every side. Draughts now met draughts in their passage through the circumambient air, and exploded like shells over a besieged town.

All the ladies were making them, and she did no more than the rest. Never mind; I shall be a young lady some of these days, our matron says I will be beautiful enough to marry the President, and then I will see whether Miss Dorothy Red-head comes meddling and bothering you any more."

The real red in material contrasts with hair red, so as to make the brown red browner. There now, is a new puzzle. When is brown red?" "When a sassy boy calls it red," promptly answered Tavia, remembering how she always feared the "red-head" epithet. "Isn't it sweet?" exclaimed Dorothy, holding the new gown up for inspection. "Oh, a perfect love!" declared Tavia.

For these reasons, then, he had all the inhabitants of his district as his following, and was called throughout the city by no other name but that of the "Red-head of San Zeno."

I don't want to leave Timmy! An' with that, the other girl starts up the same, an' the wee red-head he gets at it harder'n the rest, an' there was the three o' them cryin' an' takin' on, 'Oh, let Timmy come, too! Let Timmy come, too! 'Who's Timmy? says Jake to the matron. 'Is he their dog? says he. 'No, says she, 'he's their brother, says she.

It seemed wonderful to me that one small red-head could contain so much knowledge about military affairs, and I felt a pity for some officers I knew who never had studied at all, and did not know anything except what they had picked up. I fought battles in my mind, day and night.

The lovers of good order, or at least of fair play, gathered round the combatants, forming an almost impregnable ring, yet of sufficient dimensions to avoid the missiles. "Go it, red-head!" "Bravo! white apron!" resounded on every side. Draughts now met draughts in their passage through the circumambient air, and exploded like shells over a besieged town.

Imagine Fergus getting a screed from a staff man in longhand!" The reporter chuckled at the thought. "Why, I believe the old red-head would take a trip down to the West Indies just to have a chance of saying what he thought. No, son, you've got to learn to tickle a typewriter!"