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But they have reached the stage where something must be done. As you see, they are hard to pen up and it's worse to turn them loose. Life to them is one continuous round of wrestling, scrapping, knocking over anything that's loose, and tearing up anything in reach. Whipping them does no good. They cry and beg until you are sorry and then it's to do all over again.
"What has the scrapping been about, Peter?" asked Inez. Douglas turned quietly to look at her. It suddenly occurred to him that Inez used Peter's name with a cadence that was new to him. He saw that she was watching Peter's thin sallow face with a shadow of strain about her eyes. "O it's about a bull again," laughed Peter.
They were even now creeping shufflingly about overhead on their bare feet, hunting for their respective best shoes and stockings and other garments, and scrapping in loud whispers. But Leslie, little diplomat that she was, wasted no time in taking stock of her aunt.
By midnight we were on our way home to Queant. Our four days at Moeuvres were among the most trying we spent in the war, and we have the presumption to think we did well. Three companies received a special message from the Brigadier. The fourth company would have got it also, but by the luck of the war it was out of all the scrapping.
I do think after a man's spent his lifetime trying to give his kids a chance and a decent education, it's pretty discouraging to hear them all the time scrapping like a bunch of hyenas and never and never Curious; here in the paper it says Never silent for one mom Seen the morning paper yet?" "No, dear." In twenty-three years of married life, Mrs.
"They are bloated monopolists," said Adams sententiously. "Still I don't see why there should be any scrapping over the line in Quartz Creek Canyon." "No? You are not up in monopolistic methods. In six months from September first the Utah people will be shut out of Carbonate business, which is all that keeps that part of their line alive.
"No; nothing but a general hand-out of pretty sharp talk. What was needed right then was a unifier somebody who could take command and coax or bully the scrapping factions into line. Magnus tried it, but he's too smooth.
Then the tangled mass of trench and ravine over which his position looked, Quinn's, Courtenay's, Dead Man's Ridge, and so on, was always an interesting study. They were for ever scrapping there, and at nights never for a moment rested.
Should she could she ever see him again? She thanked God he was there, serving the country he loved. "The only thing he ever really loved, perhaps," she thought. She supposed he would be killed all that genius lost like so much more of value that the world was scrapping to-day and then it would all be quite gone Through the trees dropped the insistent sound of a baby's cry to its mother.
"That's just it. You'd both have got to scrapping and screaming at each other and nothing told." "Better nothing told, as far as you are concerned," she flashed at him fiercely, and then lapsed into sullen silence. "Hello! Hello!" Hughie's voice came to them from a side avenue or narrower path down which he had wandered. "Hello, yourself," Flick answered. "We'll wait for you right here." "Bob."
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