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"Well, if you come to that, sir, they was that touch-woody that if it hadn't been for the thick paint I put on 'em every spring, till they had quite a houtside skin o' white lead, they wouldn't ha' held together. Stop, that arn't all: the tool-house door's blowed right off. Natur's very well in some things, but I never could see what was the good o' so much wind blustering and rampaging about.
In one corner of the tool-house stood Uncle Roger's iron-bound box, which, since the eventful evening when it was opened, had been banished from the library in disgrace, Mr. Ormond wishing to put a small bookcase in the space which the box had hitherto occupied. Elsie tried to lift the lid, but the two padlocks had been refastened to prevent their being lost.
Gigi entered the tool-house, and presently brought out a ladder, which he carried down to the riverside, and left there. Then he returned to the tool-house, and came back bearing an armful of planks, each perhaps a foot wide by five or six feet long.
"Yes," said Herbert, with a smile; "I was down here when the clock struck four. I was up even before the sun. But I must say, Carry, it is good of you to pass it over. I won't forget it in a hurry, I can tell you." Caroline asked him not to say another word about it, and, as she turned to go to the tool-house, she saw her mamma looking at them very seriously.
And you should have seen how she burst out crying; for something had turned on her mind before." "Well, I couldn't have said that to her," quoth the tender-hearted Swipes "not if she had come and routed out every key and every box, pot, pan, and pannier in the tool-house and stoke-hole and vinery! The pretty dear! the pretty dear! And such a lady as she is!
Cully lay flat on the shingles, holding to the steaming blankets, and directing Carl's buckets with his outstretched finger when some greater spark lodged and gained headway. If they could keep these burning brands under until the heat had spent itself, they could perhaps save the tool-house and the larger stable.
"No, ma'am; she says she remembers it being brought in the last time it was sent out to be cleaned, but we can't find it now. We turned the cupboard out just before dinner-time." "Are you sure that Henry hasn't had it to clean, and left it behind in the tool-house when he brought in the other knives?" "Yes, 'm; we've looked there."
"It's a beastly cold wind outside," he said; "I know what we'll do. We'll hang it up in the tool-house. Come on, Ida and Elsie; we'll all have a try." The elder sister responded readily, but Elsie hung back, made some excuse, and went off in another direction. "What a little noodle she's becoming!" remarked Ida to Brian, as Guy proceeded to hang up the target.
"Dutch told me he was camping in the tool-house," I answered. "The boys drove him out, sir, and he took to the garden." "Nasty of the boys, I should say. If that interloper should murder him " A yell rose from the midst of the garden, followed by a crash and an instant later by a splash that interrupted another yell.
"Right away to Borneo and New Guinea, wherever I am likely to collect specimens and find new varieties." "Do you collect, sir?" I said excitedly. "To be sure I do, my boy. Do you?" he added with a smile. "Yes, sir, all I can." "Oh yes! he has quite a wonderful collection down in the tool-house, Richard. Come and see."
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