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Well, her ladyship is bent on making some marmalade and rhubarb jam. I don't know how she did it, but she got some sugar from a man at Ballymurry. Wangled it. Isn't that the word?" "Seems exactly the word," said the General. "And I'm bringing it home to her. That's all." "I see," said the General. "But why not have let the officer see what was in the case?
A dam at this point would raise the level on the bars of the flat so that logs would not jam, and a log which used the high water caused by the dam must pay for it. What Scattergood had in mind was a dam and boom company. It was his project to improve the river, to boom backwaters, to dynamite ledges, to make the river passable to logs in spring and fall.
"I see you are bound to make sure enough spies out of us," said Marie Crismore pertly. "Well, I'm going to start out with the determination of pulling my hat down over my eyes, hiding in every shadow I see and peeking around every corner I can get to. Oh, I'm going to be some sleuth, believe me." "What will you say when you catch somebody with jam on his fingers?" Harriet Newcomb inquired.
James Douglas, of the building of a certain tabernacle in London first it started out to be a Jam Factory, then a happy idea occurred to the builder that he should turn it into a Waterworks, then the foreman suggested that it would make an ideal swimming-bath, but finally the architect came on the scene and said, "Here, half a minute; there's an alteration wanted here; we're going to make it into a church" at such moments, Dr.
"That was while she used to send you cakes, and ham, and jam to school, Mr. Hugh." "Of course it was, and while she sent me flannel waistcoats to Oxford. But when I didn't care any longer for cakes or flannel then she got tired of me. It is much better as it is, if she'll only be good to Dorothy." "She never was bad to anybody, Mr. Hugh.
Mrs. Assingham, it struck him, applied two or three of the finest in their discussion of their young friend so different a figure now from that early playmate of Maggie's as to whom he could almost recall from of old the definite occasions of his having paternally lumped the two children together in the recommendation that they shouldn't make too much noise nor eat too much jam.
I shall neither hinder nor encourage. I had rather they stayed at home. 'Don't lose sight of the possibility that by when they are grown up there may be no such thing as "home". The word is dying out. Morton's pedantry led him again to murmur Latin 'Multa renascentur quoe jam cecidere. 'You're the happiest man I know, or ever shall know, said Rolfe, with more feeling than he cared to exhibit.
"So we're six simpletons, held up by his shady tricks, are we? If Bert Dodge is anywhere ahead of us on the road, then I hope we have the good luck to meet him under conditions where he can't jam on the speed and get away from us!" "Joke on you all, is it?" asked the farmer, grinning quizzically. "It looks like it," admitted Dick sheepishly.
'Yes, said Constance, 'it sounds all very well to say Mysie was treated in the same way, but in the afternoon Mysie was allowed to go and make messes with blackberry jam, while poor Dolly was kept shut up in the schoolroom!
They are selected on account of their intelligence, agreeableness, and power of entertaining each other. They come together, not for exercise, but pleasure, and the more they crowd and jam and struggle, and the louder they scream, the greater the pleasure. It is a kind of contest, full of good-humor and excitement. The one that has the shrillest voice and can scream the loudest is most successful.
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