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Judging from her look of assurance, I could not possibly have made a more satisfactory reply. My aunt finished the needle she was upon, smoothed the stocking-leg over her knee, and looking at me with a very comical expression, said, "Isaac, you are a sad fellow!" I did not like the tone of this; it sounded very much as if it would have been in the mouth of any one else "bad fellow."
Taking them from the nets, he showed them to me, remarking, with a short laugh, that they were all young males. Then he thrust them down the stocking-leg which served as an entrance to the covered box he kept his birds in the black hole in which their captive life begins, where they were now all vainly fluttering to get out.
These were all the Christmas gifts she had been able to get for papa, and the long gray stocking-leg looked very empty to her eyes.
"Somebody will let us sit in behind," said Joel, confidently; "there'll be lots of wagons goin'." "And ever so many people going in them," added Mrs. Pepper. "No, my children shan't ever be a burden to other folks," and she lifted her head proudly. "Polly, run into the bedroom and get the stocking-leg."
She sent Polly down with the money for the doctor's visit, pinned up carefully in a paper, which the little doctor promptly returned the next day, Polly having left it, as he was away on his rounds. So Mrs. Pepper could do nothing but tie it into the old stocking-leg again, in the bureau drawer. "Children," she said, drawing them all up around her, "we must never forget to do something for Dr.
"Ah," said my Aunt Tabithy, as she smoothed the stocking-leg again, with a sigh, "there is, after all, but one youth-time; and if you put down its memories once, you can find no second growth." My Aunt Tabithy was wrong. There is as much growth in the thoughts and feelings that run behind us as in those that run before us.
"Yes'm," said Polly, taking her eyes off, by a violent wrench, from the fascinating watch; and she ran quickly and got the little old stocking-leg, where the hard earnings that staid long enough to be put anywhere, always found refuge. She put it into her mother's lap, and watched while Mrs. Pepper counted out slowly one dollar in small pieces. "Here sir," said Mrs.
The magazines and Jerrine's cards and Mother Goose book came long ago, and Jerrine and I were both made happy. I wish I could do nice things for you, but all I can do is to love you. Your sincere friend, ELINORE RUPERT. February, 1912. ... This time I want to tell you about a "stocking-leg" dinner which I attended not long ago.
His little shop, his goods, his secret stocking-leg of coin, for Father Baby was his own banker, were buried out of sight. His crop in the common fields and provision for winter lay also under the Mississippi. His late lodger had taken to the river, and was probably drowned. He had no warrant except in the nimbleness of his slave's legs that he even had a slave left.
Dwight's Version are, you observe, sadly warped and weather-stained; and from some stray figures which appear upon a fly-leaf you are constrained to think, that the Squire has sometimes employed a quiet interval of the service with reckoning up the contents of the old stocking-leg at home.
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