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The little fellow with the broom-stick, ceasing a useless protest, reached a bit forward and tapped dreamily the rail in front of him. The Jamaican suddenly sent the can of water some rods down the track, danced an artistic buck-and-wing shuffle on the thin air above his head, sat down on the back of his neck, and after trying a moment in vain to kick the railroad out by the roots, lay still.
'If you are as old as that, said the wife, 'you can go elsewhere; and she took the broom-stick and beat the changeling until it ran away, and as it ran he caught his feet in his hands and rolled away over hill and dale so long as they could see it.
All the time I was thinking of the rapidly approaching moment when I should have to come down. I knew well enough how the descent was to be made. It was very simple. I had only to shut off my motor, push forward with my "broom-stick," the control connected with the elevating planes, and then wait and redress gradually, beginning at from six to eight metres from the ground.
I asseverate that, during my occupation of Master B.'s room, I was taken by the ghost that haunted it, on expeditions fully as long and wild as any of those. Confident that I speak the truth and shall be believed, I declare without hesitation that I followed the ghost, in the first instance on a broom-stick, and afterwards on a rocking-horse.
Basil brought something downstairs which he laid upon a chest outside. It sounded like a broom-stick. Below me I could hear St. I did not cry, but something lay heavy, like a stone, upon my heart.
But what fruit all this kindness brought forth we shall see in liber tertius. How the sub-prioress, Dorothea Stettin, visits Sidonia and extols her virtue Item, of Sidonia's quarrel with the dairywoman, and how she beats the sheriff himself, Eggert Sparling, with a broom-stick.
"Couldn't we catch them up?" cried Mary, almost incoherent from excitement and horror. "They've gone half-a-mile by this, and that brute," this with an eye of concentrated hatred at the colt, "won't jump a broom-stick." "But let me try," urged Mary, maddened by the assumption of masculine calm which Mr. Denny's despair had taken on; "or oh, Mr.
I thought you did care for me in your own careless fashion " "I do. But I'm not hopelessly enamoured of your broom-stick!" Her laugh was a little less spontaneous, as she answered: "I know I have been rather free with my broom. I'm sorry." "You have made some sweeping charges on that cat!" he said, laughing. "I know I have. That was two months ago.
Their cries summoned the others; and in a few moments the poor Hottentot was standing in the midst of an angry circle of chacmas, that were only prevented from springing in upon her by the expert manner in which she continued to ply the broom-stick.
"Never in all my days have I seen a genuine, old witch, so I'll come with you, if I may?" "Oh, this is a very gentle old witch, and she is neither humpbacked, nor does she ride a broom-stick, so I'm afraid you'll be disappointed, Mr. Bellew." "Then, at least, I can carry your basket, allow me!"
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