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A favourite trick, indulged in by young and old alike, was that of raising themselves on their hind-legs close beside a broad beech-trunk near the "set," and then, on tiptoe, stretching out their fore-claws to the fullest extent and scratching vigorously at the bark.
Four young heifers, tied in a line, were grazing and at times looking toward the house and lowing. The fowls made a colored patch on the dung-heap before the stable, scratching, moving about and cackling, while two roosters crowed continually, digging worms for their hens, whom they were calling with a loud clucking. The wooden gate opened and a man entered.
"I'd go close to the balustrade, if I were you." "Oh, no! I mustn't!" Miss Lily whispered, glancing down into the hall. "She's gone," said Polly softly. "Come right up here! Afraid of scratching? 'T won't do any harm with your soft slippers." "She won't let me!" breathed the frightened woman. "Oh, I guess she won't mind!" returned Polly easily. "That's what rails are made for to cling to."
I seen him myself," said Mike, still scratching his head. "I'll just have a look inside that pocket-book." "Ye will not that's my property!" said Farmer Weeks, reaching quickly for the wallet.
"Yas, suh, ter kiver de spring house;" and scratching his head he stood for a moment as if in deep thought. "An' look yere, Mr. Starbuck, while I'se gone to the pos' office don't you reckon you kin think up suthin' fur me ter do?" "How willing he is to work," Mrs. Mayfield sympathetically remarked. Kintchin ducked his head at her. "W'y, Lawd bless yo' life, honey, I doan know nuthin' else.
This thought cheered me wonderfully, and I was busily working away when I heard the whistling and scratching noise made by somebody walking sharply through the gooseberry bushes, and, looking round, there was Ike carrying another ladder, and Shock coming along loaded with baskets, evidently to go on picking apples from one of the neighbouring trees. They neither of them spoke.
"Cock-and-bull?" stuttered the mate, scratching his head. "Yes, cock-and-bull," roared the captain. "Can't you see he's there, all alive, oh! in that canoe? Here, you, Tom Jinks, lay hold of this rope, and don't stand making faces there like a jibbering idiot. Catch hold." "No, no," faltered the great sailor; "it's his "
He arrived at Colon, took train for Panama across the laborious path where a thousand little men were scratching endlessly, and on the brink of the Pacific began his search. No one had heard of Greenfield.
For nearly an hour the silence of the room was interrupted only by the scratching of Richard's pen and the rustling of the magazine as Margaret turned the leaf. Now and then he looked up and caught her eye, and smiled, and went on with his task. It was a veritable return of the old times. Margaret became absorbed in the story she was reading and forgot her uneasiness.
The Duke felt no inclination, however, to take the advice which he had solicited. He had been stung by the sarcasm which Alva had once uttered, that the German potentates carried plenty of lions, dragons, eagles, and griffins on their shields; but that these ferocious animals were not given to biting or scratching.
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