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Now take this slate," he continued aloud, "and try and do one of these simple sums. You'll soon get used to them "If five onions were to be boiled in six saucepans, how would you divide the onions so that there would be exactly the same quantity in each pan?" "Chop them up," replied the housekeeper promptly. The Badger glared. "You're not attending. I said, 'How would you divide them!"
With regard to the badger's habit of staying for some time in the doorway of his home, it may be mentioned that years afterwards, when one night I compared my notes with those of a companion who had hidden near the main opening of the "set" while I had watched by a hole higher in the wood, I found that each entrance had, simultaneously and for long, been occupied by a vigilant badger; and, as both animals were full-grown "greys," I concluded that parent badgers not unusually took ample precautions against surprise before allowing their cubs to venture out into the night.
Now that he was merely Toad, and no longer the Terror of the Highway, he giggled feebly and looked from one to the other appealingly, seeming quite to understand the situation. "You knew it must come to this, sooner or later, Toad," the Badger explained severely.
Orme was a cripple, and spent every summer regularly upon the river with his old manservant, nicknamed "the Badger." "Oh, he is quite impossible!" Hilary declared. "Let's talk of something else!" "But he means to keep you to your word, eh?" her brother persisted. "How will you get out of it?" Hilary's face flushed more deeply, and she bit her lip. "There won't be any getting out of it.
Oh, very like it indeed, my dear!" Lady Dedlock It was not so easy as it had appeared at first to arrange for Richard's making a trial of Mr. Kenge's office. Richard himself was the chief impediment. As soon as he had it in his power to leave Mr. Badger at any moment, he began to doubt whether he wanted to leave him at all. He didn't know, he said, really.
Ice an inch thick, any way, and Charley talked that much he's not said anything since, even when the near horse put his foot into a badger hole." Rude banter followed this, but Winston took no part in it. Hastening into the post office, he stood betraying his impatience by his very impassiveness while a sallow-faced woman tossed the letters out upon the counter.
Come on," and showing the sentinel the counter-signed pass, Captain Badger led the two youths into the proving grounds. Tom and Ned saw so much to interest them that they did not know at which to look first. In some places officers and firing squads were testing small-calibre machine guns, which shot off a round with a noise like a string of firecrackers on the Chinese New Year's.
"Pooh! old Badger is in his second childhood," said Arnold, trying to make light of the affair; "he must mean the great deluge." "Well, I only know what he told me," said the boy. "Yes, but if you believe all you hear, you will gain some extraordinary knowledge in the course of your life," said Arnold, walking away in search of the doctor.
Stories he had heard by the lodge fireside when he was a lad, casual remarks dropped by followers of the Hunt, questions asked him by an inquisitive boy-naturalist he slowly remembered them all; and then the revealing light dawned on his mind, that no animal but a badger could with ease have broken the limbs of a fox-cub, and cracked the skull as though it were a hazel-nut.
Besides, there's rattlesnakes about in sandy places, we'll ha' to look out for them; an' there's badger holes, we'll need to look sharp for them lest the horses put their feet in 'em; an' there's Injuns, who'll look out pretty sharp for us if they once get wind that we're in them parts."
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