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There I hired a team and wagon. It brought us to the grove near your house." "Why did you disguise yourself before you came in?" "I longed to see Harry, but I did not want him to see me. I did not know that he would care to see me," she answered. "I longed to see all of you." "Isn't that like Bim?" Samson asked. "I am no longer the fool I was," she answered. "It was not just a romantic notion.
They drew lots to decide who should be left behind in charge of the raft, and, much to his disgust, the unwelcome task fell to Glen. So he remained on board with Nanita and Cherub, as the pup had been named in honor of Bim, though it was generally called "Cheer-up," and the others sallied forth into the woods. They were well provided with fat pine torches and armed with axes.
Biggs, as his heels touched the flanks of his horse. Then he went flying down the road. Harry Needles met Bim Kelso on the road next day, when he was going down to see if there was any mail. She was on her pony. He was in his new suit of clothes a butternut background striped into large checks. "You look like a walking checkerboard," said she, stopping her pony.
He was walking the floor with the baby in his arms. Bim, puzzled and anxious, walked by his side, looking up at the small bundle with a glance which seemed to say, "What in the world are we going to do with it?" Whether the feeding from the teaspoon had disagreed with its digestion could not be discovered, but clearly the baby was unhappy.
This we saw from the rocks of the shore, and the bear came toward us, and after him came Keesh, very much unafraid. And he shouted harsh words after the bear, and waved his arms about, and made much noise. Then did the bear grow angry, and rise up on his hind legs, and growl. But Keesh walked right up to the bear." "Ay," Bim continued the story. "Right up to the bear Keesh walked.
Sue shook her head, but Mrs. Brainard went to the door, followed by Atchison and Miss Forrest. They looked out upon a low-ceiled, lamp-lighted room, in absolute order, in which was not a trace of the late festival-making except the piles of clean dishes upon the table, under which lay Bim, nose on paws, alert eyes on the strangers. "Magic?" queried Mrs. Brainard.
Kelso had put every dollar he had and some that he hoped to have into land. Bim, who had been teaching in one of the schools, had invested all her savings in a dream city on the shore of an unconstructed canal. Like many who had had no experience with such phenomena they underestimated the seriousness of the panic.
Biggs claimed to have got his hurt by a fall from his horse, pride leading him to clothe the facts in prevarication. If the truth had been known Samson would have suffered a heavy loss of popularity in New Salem. A week after his arrival Ann Rutledge walked over to Jack Kelso's with him. Bim fled up the stick ladder as soon as they entered the door. Mr. Kelso was away on a fox hunt.
The dog seemed to say, "I knew you would come if I only waited patiently and barked loud enough. Now you see why I couldn't leave." The object to which Bim thus directed attention, as plainly as though possessed of speech, was a little curly-haired puppy, a Gordon setter, so young that its eyes were not yet opened. Billy Brackett picked it up and dropped it over the side into Winn's arms.
At supper-time they all gathered again in the living-room of the Whatnot, where Sabella reported her new friend to be the most splendid bull-dog she had ever seen, and that his name was Bim. This name at once attracted Winn's attention, and he said he had an uncle somewhere out in California who owned a dog named Bim.
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