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Inside, the now contracted well of the one little shop was more scented and darker than ever. And it was longer than usual, too, before a face peered down, and the tip-tap of the bast slippers began. At last he stood before me, and, gazing through those rusty iron spectacles, said: "Mr. , isn'd it?" "Ah! Mr. Gessler," I stammered, "but your boots are really too good, you know!
"The ceaseless rap Of the yellow-hammer's tap, Tip-tap, tip-tap, tip-tap-tip. 'Tis the merry pitter-patter Of the yellow-hammer's tap." Whether or not it is mere play is perhaps yet an open question. The drumming of the sapsucker, one of the most common sounds of the woods and lawn, seemed sometimes simply for amusement, but again it appeared exceedingly like a signal.
Do you suppose someone will call out: 'Tip-tap, tip-tap, who raps on my door'?" "Sh-h! I'm hungry enough to eat the roof. Let's ask for a drink of water so's to see the inside." Robin did not think it was just nice to deliberately intrude upon the privacy of this shut-away house but Beryl, not waiting for her approval, knocked boldly on the heavy old door.
And as I moved to the door, I would hear the tip-tap of his bast slippers restoring him, up the stairs, to his dream of boots.
And as I moved to the door, I would hear the tip-tap of his bast slippers restoring him, up the stairs, to his dream of boots.
It is not only the eating of them, but the finding: the fluttering up there and hopping from branch to branch, the sidling out to the extreme end of the bough, and the inward chuckling when a friend lets his acorn drop tip-tap from bough to bough. Amid such plenty they cannot quarrel or fight, having no cause of battle, but they can boast of success, and do so to the loudest of their voices.
A guttural sound, and the tip-tap of bast slippers beating the narrow wooden stairs, and he would stand before one without coat, a little bent, in leather apron, with sleeves turned back, blinking as if awakened from some dream of boots, or like an owl surprised in daylight and annoyed at this interruption. And I would say: "How do you do, Mr. Gessler?
From the sofa where he lay, Mahony could hear the murmur of his wife's even voice. Polly sat the further end of the verandah talking to Jinny, who dandled her babe in a rocking-chair that made a light tip-tap as it went to and fro. Jinny said nothing: she was no doubt sunk in adoration of her or rather John's infant; and Mahony all but dozed off, under the full, round tones he knew so well.
You sprang up quick to shut the door, and forgot it." "Forgot what?" "You didn't sigh at the end of your needle." "Why, Dotty, how you do talk! Any one would suppose, by that, I was in the habit of sighing! I have a stitch in my side, child, and it makes me draw a long breath now and then; that's all." Flyaway was back again, "With step-step light, and tip-tap slight Against the door."
A guttural sound, and the tip-tap of bast slippers beating the narrow wooden stairs, and he would stand before one without coat, a little bent, in leather apron, with sleeves turned back, blinking as if awakened from some dream of boots, or like an owl surprised in daylight and annoyed at this interruption. And I would say: "How do you do, Mr. Gessler?
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