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One day a feller a stranger in the camp, he was come acrost him with his box, and says: "'What might it be that you've got in the box? "And Smiley says, sorter indifferent-like, 'It might be a parrot, or it might be a canary, maybe, but it ain't it's only just a frog. "And the feller took it, and looked at it careful, and turned it round this way and that, and says, 'H'm so 'tis.
Foster still nursed his foot, and now he shifted a little in his chair. "He gave me his word directly, but told me he was very much hurt at my asking him." She smiled again. "There's a confession of a conjugal quarrel for you, Mr. Foster. Don't talk about it, or Mr. Smiley will have a caricature of us throwing the furniture at one another. I've been very humble ever since, I assure you." Mr.
But when they came rushing toward her, pellmell, she seemed to remember what she ought to do. "You can't come in," she told them, as they gathered at the bottom of the porch steps. "You can't come in, because you'll get burned! The school is on fire." She opened the door behind her and, sure enough, out poured smoke. "My coat!" wailed Jessie Smiley. "My lovely new coat.
Smiley wrote as follows: "DEAR MR. CHILLIS: I shall move into the new house about the last of October, according to your advice. We that is, myself, and Willie, and the present owner of the house shall be delighted if you will come and stay with us. But if you decide to remain with your son, believe that we think of you very often and very affectionately, and wish you every possible happiness.
For at last the other side had come to its senses; Sir Winterton was affable again, Lady Mildmay was canvassing, and Mr. Smiley had high hopes. Despondency would have fallen on Foster's spirit but for the report of Quisanté's exploits, performed in the teeth of the orders of that same Dr. Tillman who had given Sir Winterton such excellent unprofessional advice touching the affair of Tom Sinnett.
"I wonder why they keep Miss Sniffen," Polly said. "Probably she is agreeable to the trustees, and nobody calls their attention to anything wrong." "Yes, I've seen her when some of the officers came. She is as smiley as a goose! I hate her smile; it looks as if she didn't mean it." "She is evidently not the woman for the place. I am sorry." The Doctor glanced at his watch and rose abruptly.
To think that, after writing many an article a man might be excused for thinking tolerably good, those New York people should single out a villainous backwoods sketch to compliment me on! "Jim Smiley and his Jumping Frog" a squib which would never have been written but to please Artemus Ward.
Miss Hilliker had neither strength, time nor talent to do justice to the work; but, poor soul, she did try so hard, and she did give the children a good time, whether or not they ever accomplished anything else." "I am glad Miss Smiley has taken the Gleaners, too," said Peace meditatively. "Me and Allee 'xpect to join at next meeting.
You might pretend," laughed Bet, but seeing a shadow pass over her friend's face, she immediately added: "I'm sorry dear, I promised never to tease you about that." "Don't Bet, some things just touch the heart too close to joke about! And you'll never understand that until you love a horse the way I do Powder." "I think I do understand, Kit. I'm sure I'd be just as sentimental over Smiley Jim.
One day a feller a stranger in the camp, he was come acrost him with his box, and says: "What might be that you've got in the box?" And Smiley says, sorter indifferent-like, "It might be a parrot, or it might be a canary, maybe, but it ain't it's only just a frog." And the feller took it, and looked at it careful, and turned it round this way and that, and says, "H'm so 'tis.
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