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In the Moneth of March take Toades, as many as you will, alive; putt them into an Earthen pott, so yt it be halfe full; Cover it with a broad tyle or Iron plate, then overwhelme the pott, so yt ye bottome may be uppermost; putt charcoals round about it and over it and in the open ayre not in an house; sett it on fire and lett it burne out and extinguish of itself; when it is cold take out the toades; and in an Iron morter pound them very well; and searce them; then in a Crucible calcine them; So againe; pound them & searce them again.
The City Fuquieo is very great, and mightily walled with square stone both within and without, and, as it may seeme by the breadth thereof, filled vp in the middle with earth, layd ouer with brick and couered with tyle, after the maner of porches or galleries, that one might dwel therein.
He attempted to take it up again, but he was still trying for a lead when Alice saw Mrs. Van Tyle and Beauchamp coming toward them. She rose. Her eyes were the brightest Jeff had ever seen. They were filled with an ardent tenderness. It was as if she were wrapped in a spiritual exaltation. "Thank you. Thank you. I can't tell you what you've done for me." She turned and walked quickly away.
Stone to make Lyme of; Slate stone to tyle withall, or such clay as maketh tyle; Stone to wall withall, if Brycke may not bee made; Timber for buylding easely to be conueied to the place; Reede to couer houses or such like, if tyle or slate be not are to be looked for as things without which no Citie may be made nor people in ciuil sort be kept together.
You're going to learn what it is to oh, damn it!" He was impersonally admiring her Whistler when the maid brushed aside the portieres. She had come to bring Mrs. Van Tyle a telegram. "No answer, Pratt." After the maid had retired her mistress called James to her side. Over her shoulder he read it. "Glad he is an American and not living on his father. Didn't think you had so much sense.
"Don't worry. Your enterprising photographer caught me twice before I knew it. And he got one of my cousin, Mrs. Van Tyle. She doesn't know it, though." "Good boy, Quillen. Now, if you'll begin at the beginning, Miss Frome, I'll listen to your story." When she had finished his eyes were gleaming. "It's the biggest scoop I ever got in on. Sounds too good to be true." Part 5
But Killen must have thought something was doing he wasn't in on. It seems he followed me to The Brakes yesterday afternoon when I called on Mrs. Van Tyle." "Followed you to The Brakes. Good Lord!" groaned Rawson. "What in Mexico were you doing there?" "Thought I mentioned that I was calling on Mrs. Van-Tyle," returned James stiffly.
My cousin knows him, too." The captain turned to Mrs. Van Tyle. She nodded languidly. Barclay swung back to the mate of the Nancy Hanks. "I know your kind, my man, and I can tell you that I think the penitentiary would be the proper place for you and your captain, with my compliments to him." "Better come and pay 'em yourself, sir," sneered the mate.
The slim young driver leaned back against the cushions and merely smiled a greeting, tacitly yielding command of the situation to her cousin, an opulent young widow adorned demurely with that artistic touch of mourning that suggests a grief not inconsolable. "Good morning, Miss Frome Mrs. Van Tyle," James distributed impartially before turning to the latter lady. "Isn't this a day to be alive in?
"So you're going to sacrifice yourself to duty," scoffed Alice as she brought the electric to a stop under the porte-cochere of the Frome residence. Mrs. Van Tyle folded her hands demurely. "It's sweet of you to see it that way, Alice." Part 2 James turned in at the Century Building. In the elevator he met his cousin.
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