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"What new nonsense is this?" cried Vane. "I know there's some crazy yarn about the trees spreading fever, though every educated man knows why these epidemics return occasionally. And I know they say you can tell the noise of them among other trees in a gale, and I dare say you can. But even Cornwall isn't a lunatic asylum, and a tree that dines on a passing tourist "
It may not be pleasant to find blue dye and wool yarn in Teviot, but it is more endurable than to have to encounter the bandit Barnskill, who hewed his bed of flint, Scott says, in Minto Crags.
I saw it, and I said, 'Nuggan, my boy, I said, 'this ain't your game. If the girl goes to the old man, it's his and her game, not yours." "Only she didn't go," Tony said. "Didn't she? Then perhaps you know more than I do, and can tell me " "I can tell you if you put that yarn about you've started as good a fairy tale as was ever told," Tony interrupted.
And now he reached up his hand, and plucked at the yarn that bound it, which of set purpose was but feeble, and tore it off, and then shook the staff aloft with both hands, and shouted, and lo! the Banner of the Wolf with the Sun-burst behind him, glittering-bright, new-woven by the women of the kindred, ran out in the fresh wind, and flapped and rippled before His warriors there assembled.
"Seeing which, sir, an' because she must have that money if she 'opes to keep the roof of Dapplemere over 'er 'ead, I, there an' then, made up, or as you might say, concocted a story, a anecdote, or a yarn, upon the spot, Mr. Belloo sir." "Most excellent Machiavelli! proceed!"
By the by, these gentry are fond of singing of the blessed sun were they sailors they would bless the moon also, and be to them, in place of writing much wearisome poetry regarding her blighting propensities. But I have lost the end of my yarn once more, in the strands of these parentheses. Lord, what a word to pronounce in the plural!
"'Ess." "Wal," went on Scipio, taking advantage of the pause, "he was nigh drownded, an' he had to swim an' swim, an' then he built himself a ranch." "Barn," cried Sandy, unable to keep quiet any longer. "It was a barn to kep his stock in." "Ark," said Toby decidedly. "He built a Nore's Ark same as toys kiddies plays with." "But Bill said Sunny's yarn goes," protested the troubled Scipio.
"Just at that point I interrupted him by askin' what he meant by sayin' that the cap'n was `gone'; to which he replied that the skipper had shot himself and then jumped overboard which I don't believe, Mr Grenvile, not for a moment, for if I'm not very greatly mistaken I saw the scoundrel wink at the men as he told me the yarn.
Off among the hills the echo was repeated to a faint whisper. Arizona dropped the revolver carelessly on the ground. "Fatty, you've gone nutty," said Sandersen. "I'll tell you a yarn," said Arizona. Sandersen looked past him to the east. The light was growing rapidly about the mountains. In another moment or so that sunrise which he had been looking forward to with such solemn dread, would occur.
You heard 'em slam the door. You saw the two come along. An' one of 'em must have been Anton. Leastways he must have let 'em have the hosses. I guess that's an alternative. I say Anton was up on one of them hosses, an' the other was some gorl durned Breed mate of his. Good. We're goin' right on to see the governor." "What to do?" asked Tresler. "To give him your yarn," Jake said shortly.
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