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I presume a man has a perfect right to look at his own cornfield, even up here in the Kentucky mountains," observed Miss Briggs. "Ah reckons you're right," chuckled Hippy. "I decline to get excited over it. I have troubles of my own. Say!" he added, his face growing suddenly serious. "You don't suppose it was a fellow trying to collect that head money on me, do you?"
She would receive it the next morning when I was arriving in New York, and, as she did not know my name, she could not possibly return it. I felt I had earned that pleasure. This time, Miss Briggs was in charge of the post-card counter, and as now a post-card was the only thing I could afford to buy, at seeing her there I was doubly pleased. But she was not pleased to see me. Evidently Mr.
Half buried in the ground, the great stone lay there for nearly forty years; then it was broken up. It was the last rock the boys ever rolled down. Nearly sixty years later John Briggs and Mark Twain walked across Holliday's Hill and looked down toward the river road. Mark Twain said: "It was a mighty good thing, John, that stone acted the way it did.
Nora, Anne and Emma paled as they caught sight of the limp figure in Hi Lang's arms. "Who shot her!" asked Elfreda. "The critter who tried to kill Ping, I suppose." "Oh, this is terrible!" wailed Emma. "Get water," directed Miss Briggs, after the guide had placed her where the light from the fire would shine in her face.
Even she was happier there than she had been for ages and ages. The only person who would go empty away would be Mr. Briggs. Poor Mr. Briggs. When she came in sight of the group he looked much too nice and boyish not to be happy. It seemed out of the picture that the owner of the place, the person to whom they owed all this, should be the only one to go away from it unblessed.
Briggs, and the tallest of the men is her husband. The other two are no relation. I don't know their names, but Tim will introduce us." I looked at my programme again. It was under the name of the Galleotti Family that the acrobats performed. "That will be most interesting," I said. "I'm afraid it won't," said Gorman. "People like that are usually quite stupid. However Mrs.
"You mustn't be permitted to get chilled. Exercise is what you need." Dick paused. "Poor, young Mr. Briggs stood mute, blinking back. "Milesy, may Mr. Briggs have the use of your piece for a few minutes?" "Why, surely," declared Cadet Furlong in a tone of great cordiality. "Mr. Briggs, take Mr. Furlong's piece, and go through the silent manual of arms," ordered the president of the yearling class.
While thus approaching, as all hoped, to convalescence, Miss Briggs was the only victim admitted into the presence of the invalid; yet Miss Crawley's relatives afar off did not forget their beloved kinswoman, and by a number of tokens, presents, and kind affectionate messages, strove to keep themselves alive in her recollection. In the first place, let us mention her nephew, Rawdon Crawley.
Samuel Briggs was a mere machine, a sort of self-acting legal walking-stick; and as the party was known to have originated, however remotely, with Mrs. Taunton, the female branches of the Briggs family had arranged that Mr. Alexander should attend, instead of his brother; and as the said Mr.
But all this leads up to what I intended to tell you girls before we separated. We are going to New York City for the winter. David is going into business there." "To New York!" came simultaneously from Arline and Grace. There were murmurs of surprise from the other girls. J. Elfreda Briggs alone smiled knowingly.
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