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The great panic came on and Blount foreclosed on everything, and then Mr. Huff fell out with John Holman and they closed the Paymaster down. That was ten years ago and, with the litigation and all, the stock went down to nothing. The whole camp went dead and all the folks moved away but have you ever been through the mine? Well, I want you to go that ground has hardly been scratched!"
"'And here's a shilling, Joe, for a bus fare, ses the gal, smiling. 'You can keep the change. "Joe took off 'is cap and scratched 'is silly bald 'ead. "'Come on, I ses; 'it's a letter to a dressmaker. A letter that must go to-night. "'Else it's no use, ses the gal. 'You don't know 'ow important it is. "'All right, ses Joe. ''Ave it your own way.
Jason for the doctor; but I was wondering if you could do anything until Dr. Fandon came." "A scratched boy?" repeated Mr. Brown slowly. "What scratched him?" "A great big lion, he says!" exclaimed Mrs. Jason. "I declare I'm so excited I don't know what to do!" and she sat down on a stool Mrs. Brown placed for her near the back steps of the automobile. Mr. and Mrs.
It cost me something to repaint the door where he scratched it, but at night he was quite ready to accept a little food at my hands. In a week we were very good friends. He would sleep on my bed now and allow me to move my feet without snapping at them, intent to do me serious bodily harm.
But in the morning I got to looking at him and I was afraid a shot from across the river would just wound him. I wouldn't risk my gun again in the water, so I takes off my clothes, takes my knife in my teeth and," Henderson's voice was very sweet as he scratched the mule's ear, "and swims back to cut his throat. When I got up to him I cussed him out good.
As he turned from the cash register to throw his customer's change on the scratched top of the glass show case, the philosopher added with a grin that was a curious blend of admiration, contempt and envy, "An' you just can't think the Mill without thinkin' Adam Ward." That grin was another distinguishing mark of the well informed resident of Millsburgh.
Wild Thyme wore a rope of the flower that is named for her around her neck, but there was a new rent in her purple frock and her legs were scratched as though she had remembered her dance only the last minute and come plunging the shortest way through bushes, which was true. Thrum, thrum, thrum, thrummmmmmmmmm.
In an instant I had him by the hair and was biting with all the fury of vindictiveness. At first he set up a great bawl for assistance. He could not understand; he screamed and held his hands aloft to keep them out of my reach. Then he tried to run away. But I had learned from the cat that had scratched me. I clung on, biting, tearing.
Unfortunately for Muskwa his second turn brought him straight down to Bruce, and before he could turn again he was enveloped in sudden darkness and suffocation, and over him there rang out a fiendish and triumphant yell. "I got 'im!" shouted Bruce. Inside the shirt Muskwa scratched and bit and snarled, and Bruce was having his hands full when Langdon ran down with the second shirt.
When Phelim presented himself at home, he scarcely replied to the queries put to him by his father and mother concerning his interview with the priest. He sat down, rubbed his hands, scratched his head, rose up, and walked to and fro, in a mood of mind so evidently between mirth and chagrin, that his worthy parents knew not whether to be merry or miserable.
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