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"And where do I come in?" said Biggin to Winton reproachfully. "You'll stay out, if your head's level. You've done enough already to send you to Canyon City." "I ain't a-forgettin' nothing," said Peter cheerfully, casting himself flat behind a heap of earth on the dump-edge.
Winton made a mental note of this up-cast of public opinion, and set it over against the friendly attitude of the official Mr. Biggin. It was very evident that the town-marshal was serving the Rajah's purpose only because he had to. "I suppose you stand with your townsmen on that, don't you?" he ventured. "Now you're shouting: that's me."
"I guess I can trust you," he said, and gave her the second square of press-damp paper. Like the first, it was addressed to the superintendent at Carbonate. But this time the brown eyes flashed and her breath came quickly as she read the vice-president's cold-blooded after-thought: "Town-Marshal Biggin will arrive in Carbonate on Number 201 this A.M. with a prisoner.
If coffee is allowed to boil too long, it will lose much of its strength, and also become sour. To make coffee without boiling, you must have a biggin, the best sort of which is what in France is called a Grecque. They are to be had of various sizes and prices at the tin stores.
We'll have to take to the hills till train time." They found a way through the bar and out into a side street leading abruptly up to the spruce-clad hills behind the town. Biggin held his peace until they were safe from immediate danger of pursuit. Then his curiosity got the better of him.
"Thou art a rough nurse, though a willing one, De Vaux," said the King, laughing with a bitter expression, while he submitted to the strength which he was unable to resist; "methinks a coif would become thy lowering features as well as a child's biggin would beseem mine. We should be a babe and nurse to frighten girls with."
"Na, na; I only say them. I dinna ken the tunes o' them." "And do you say them to Mr Bruce?" "Mr Bruce, sir! Mr Bruce wad say I was daft. I wadna say a sang to him, sir, for for for a' the sweeties i' the shop." "Well, who do you say them to?" "To Alec Forbes and Willie Macwha. They're biggin a boat, sir; and they like to hae me by them, as they big, to say sangs to them.
Peter Biggin rose up and sent a bullet to plow a little furrow in the ice within an inch of Deckert's heels. "Ex-cuse me, Bart," he drawled, "but no cuss words don't go." The sheriff ignored Peter Biggin as a person who could be argued with at leisure and turned to Winton. "Come down!" he bellowed. Winton laughed. "Let me return the invitation.
His eye can never rest consciously on one of these brick houses rickles of brick, as he might call them or on one of these flat-chested streets, but he is instantly reminded where he is, and instantly travels back in fancy to his home. "This is no my ain house; I ken by the biggin' o't."
We took the Gray Dragon for Alloway and for Burns's birthplace, but the boys jumped into their car and kept close behind us. Hardly had we got into the tiny thatched house once a mere "clay biggin" where Burns was born, than the four appeared on the scene. Mrs. They won't read your books or tell their friends they're the best books going!"
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