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Then Shag learned from the Buffalo Cow that she was one of a Herd of six, and that the Herd was not very far away; that they were unguarded because of the loss of their Leader through the Death Flower, even as she had said. Willingly Shag went with her, making many protestations as to his disreputable appearance, and the unfitness of his well-worn stub-horns to battle for them; but he went.
Well," she said, pulling out her well-worn purse from her pocket, "if it does sprinkle, you get into a car, Polly, remember." "Oh, yes, I will," she cried, taking the purse. "And there's ten cents for your bird seed in that pocket," said Mrs. Pepper, pointing to a coin racing away into a corner by itself. "Yes'm," said Polly, wild to be off.
In the old notebook there remains a well-worn clipping, the words of some unknown writer, which he may have kept as a sort of creed: HOW TO TAKE LIFE. Take it just as though it was as it is an earnest, vital, and important affair. Take it as though you were born to the task of performing a merry part in it as though the world had awaited for your coming.
Our analysis may seem a bit labored, but only because we are so accustomed to our own well-worn grooves of expression that they have come to be felt as inevitable. Yet destructive analysis of the familiar is the only method of approach to an understanding of fundamentally different modes of expression.
Wherever the English language is spoken, the name of HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW has become a household word, and there is scarcely a library, however humble, but can boast a well-worn volume of his tender songs, songs that "Have power to quiet The restless pulse of care, And come like the benediction That follows after prayer."
His usual stolid temperament showed signs of wear. "Airin' th' lungs that way sounds like a critter gittin' set to make war medicine. A hardtail don't need no hardware but his hoofs to make a man regret knowin' him familiar-like " Drew had reached another wagon. "Ordnance? Buford's?" He repeated the well-worn question without hope. "Yeah, what about it?"
"Is it this chaise, plase your honour? I'll engage it will go the world's end. The universe wouldn't break it down now; sure it was mended but last night." Then seizing his whip and reins in one hand, he clawed up his stockings with the other: so with one easy step he got into his place, and seated himself, coachman-like, upon a well-worn bar of wood, that served as a coach-box.
And though the suit over the will moved ahead of them like a persistent mirage and the financial danger-mark loomed up in the near distance they found, nevertheless, that living within their income was impossible. So Gloria went without the squirrel coat and every day upon Fifth Avenue she was a little conscious of her well-worn, half-length leopard skin, now hopelessly old-fashioned.
He was too involved over the cause to want to hear Slaughter's well-worn theories on the management of the other sex. "Where's the cause?" he asked. "Well, put it plainer. Tony's like his mother, but how d'ye know he ain't more like his " "Smoke!" Marmot cried. "I get it. And yaller head found it out?" "I don't go after for to say that," Cullen said ponderously.
It was merely the old well-worn tale, so common through all the world. "He had laughed on the lass with his bonny black eye!" and she, she was ready to go "to the mountain to hear a love-tale!" One may say that an occurrence so very common could not want much telling. "Mamma; he says " "Well, my dear?" "He says . Oh, mamma! I could not help it."
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