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She had a black smudge from the end of the beanpole, which had been in a bonfire, across her forehead. You see she had just jumped the farthest, and was hollering, "Glug-Glug."
I'm only sorry for you, Billy Woods sorry because Kathleen has thrown you over sorry, do you understand? Yes, since you're so fond of skinny women, I think it's a great pity she wouldn't have you. Don't talk to me! she is skinny. I guess I know. She's as skinny as a beanpole. She's skinnier than I ever imagined it possible for anybody anybody to be.
She has dared to tell me that my gown is of country make and hangs like an old smock on a beanpole." "Mistress Barbara," I answered, "who heeds the make of the gown when the wearer is of divine make?" I was young then, and did not know that to compliment herself at the expense of her apparel is not the best way to please a woman. "You are silly," said Barbara. "Who is she?"
What a yell burst from that sore and disgruntled bunch of ball tossers! My players were a grouchy set in practice anyway, and today they were in their meanest mood. "Hey, beanpole!" "Get on to the stilts!" "Con, where did you find that?" I cut short their chaffing with a sharp order for batting practice. "Regular line-up, now no monkey biz," I went on. "Take two cracks and a bunt.
That means taking a beanpole and yelling and dancing and trying to see who can vault and jump the farthest with the pole, and when you win you say, "Glug-Glug."
Then the teacher raised the beanpole, heavy end upward, until Leeks managed to grasp it. "Can you steady it against the gutter?" asked the teacher. "I I don't know. If I had a cord " "There is a string on the window blind. Tie the end of the pole to that." With trembling hands Leeks did as directed.
It's no wonder she's like a beanpole. I would be, too, if I was forever trotting the way she is. Here she comes now, tearing up the walk like a racehorse!" "She probably heard your horn on the other side of the woods," said Nyoda, laughing, "and got here before it stopped blowing." Sahwah came in quite out of breath and evidently tremendously enthusiastic about something.
The cord was not a stout one, but it was sufficiently strong to keep the beanpole in position, and that was all that was required, since the teacher steadied it and held it up from below. But getting over the edge of the gutter was no easy movement, and those on the ground held their breath as Leeks crawled to where he could grasp the beanpole.
Another time she wouldn't go down to show herself off to Susan Susan, who thought nobody was grown up until she was sixty! And that horrid Cousin Sophia with her digs about freckles and legs! What business had an old an old beanpole like that to talk of anybody else being long and thin? Rilla felt all her pleasure in herself and her evening clouded and spoiled.
Here was a tall skyscraper of nice white marble thirty stories high, towering up into the clouds like a great beanpole, while on one side of it was a squatty little two-story red brick structure, and on the other side a six-story brown stone building, the whole forming a most irregular and distracting appearance to the eye.
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