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The boys cut some poles from the trees, and baiting the hooks with some fat worms found under the bark, threw in. "Let's see who'll get the first bite," spoke Jack. "I'm pretty generally lucky at fishing." "Well, while you're waiting to decide that there contest, I think I'll take a stroll along shore and see if I can see anything to shoot," Andy remarked.
There was something so mean and cowardly in this scheme, and in the manner in which the proposal was made, that even Thurston gave vent to an exclamation of contempt. "So that's your little game, is it?" he inquired. "Yes, that's it; that's my little project for putting a stop to the Wraxby match. There'll be an awful row, and the doctor'll keep the team from going. Now, then, who'll do the trick?
They could see the gray shining in the sunlight amid the crowd, and the man sent after him halted at a safe distance, gesticulating; and they, too, spurred forward. "Hello, boys!" young Jasper was calling out, as he swayed from side to side, the people everywhere giving him way. "Fun to-day, by ! fun to-day! Who'll hev a drink? Hyeh's hell to the Stetsons, whar some of 'em 'll be afore night!"
"Well," he said in answer, "they're not, as you might say, falling over themselves trying to see who'll be the first to print it. It's been returned." "The devil you say!" responded the Captain. "Well, that's kind of disappointin' to you, ain't it?" "But," Blix hastened to add, "we're not at all discouraged. We're going to send it off again right away." Then she said good-by to them.
But she must be a woman of character who will win his respect and keep his affection a woman who'll love him very well and serve him faithfully, but stand no messing about, nor any sort of nonsense. So the question rises, be Milly Boon that sort of woman?" His mother didn't know. "She's a lovely creature," said Mary, "and a good woman and faithful to her aunt, and that's all I know about her."
But I've seen enough to know that bunch is up to some deviltry, and naturally the owner of the outfit is the one who'll suffer, in pocket, if not something worse. It's a dirty deal, taking advantage of a girl's ignorance and inexperience, as that gang sure is doing some way specially a girl who's as decent and white as she is. I thought maybe you and me might get together and work out something.
Pyncheon, that Micah would tell you to be, if he could speak. By sun-down I'll have somebody you can talk to an' who'll cheer you up better than I can. To-morrow to-morrow we'll bury the poor man!" When he said this it set me to cryin'. Then it was so still that I looked up an' found myself alone.
She was holding her hands behind her, and ran towards them in her childish way, exclaiming: "I have found something! Who'll give a reward? Won't you both be glad guess what it is!" Mellen's face had brightened a little at her entrance, but as she spoke a sudden thought shook his soul like a tempest. "What is it?" Elizabeth asked. "Oh, guess, guess!"
"It's" she flashed a mischievous smile at Slosson "it's a mother's guide and helper, and adviser. A woman who'll answer questions, give advice. Some one they'll write to, with a picture in their minds of a large, comfortable, motherly-looking person in gray. You know we get hundreds of letters asking whether they ought to order flannel bands, or the double-knitted kind. That sort of thing.
"I wish I were. I'd steal a horse and get away from here." "Know anybody in these parts, anybody who'll give ye a character?" questioned another. "No. I've got a character of my own. I don't need any one to give me a character," retorted Hippy. "Who is the feller that come inter these mountains with ye, and then quit ye in such a hurry?" demanded another. "His name is Tom Gray.
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