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"It would have been like pickin' money off a blackberry-bush, for I was goin' to let the Wild Dog have that black horse o' mine the steadiest and fastest runner in this country and my, how that fellow can pick off the rings! He's been a-practising for a year, and I believe he could run the point o' that spear of his through a lady's finger-ring." "You'd better get somebody else." "Ah that's it.
Who knew but what the double-headed snake might start up from each blackberry-bush that wicked, cunning, accursed creature in the service of the Indian wizards, that had such power over all those white maidens who met the eyes placed at either end of his long, sinuous, creeping body, so that loathe him, loathe the Indian race as they would, off they must go into the forest to seek but some Indian man, and must beg to be taken into his wigwam, abjuring faith and race for ever?
She remembered the severe punishment which Jane Macalister had inflicted upon him a punishment which Jane had doubtless forgotten, but which Boris himself remembered. Kitty thought of Boris now as she stood by a blackberry-bush, and pricked her finger on purpose against one of the thorns.
Then Santa Claus waked up the fairy, and told her that if she didn't take better care of Rosy Posy he should put some other fairy into her place, and set her to keep guard over a prickly, scratchy, blackberry-bush." "Is there really any fairy?" asked Dorry, who had listened to this narrative with open mouth. "Of course," answered Katy.
I see them on a blackberry-bush; they've got little brass buttons on the wrist." Three rods past now, and we could not see our horse's head. "Selphar," said my mother, quickly, "what is the matter with you?" "If you please, ma'am, I don't know," replied the girl, hanging her head. "May I get out and bring 'em to you?" Prince was reined up, and Sel got out.
Sometimes the current carried us into banks gloomy with drooping alders, or densely fringed with brambles. When I heard squeals behind, I knew that Hugh was diving through a blackberry-bush, or a hanging garden of briars. I was sorry for him; but my business was to keep the canoe's head in the centre of the current, and leave the stern to follow as it might.
"So she went to her chest and got the silver chain with which the Strawberry-Girl had been fastened to the blackberry-bush, and wrapped and twined it in the shape of a star. This star she fixed on the Strawberry-Girl's forehead by means of a velvet band, and told her to wear it constantly. "It happened that on the very day the year expired the Strawberry-Girl was walking through the wood.
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