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Updated: May 25, 2025
There were all kinds of articles lying about which had evidently belonged to Turkish officers: tobacco in a heap on the ground near a bent willow and thorn bivouac; part of a field telephone with the wires running towards the upper ridges of Sirt; the remains of some dried fish and an earthenware jar or "chattie" which had held some kind of wine; a few very hard biscuits, and a mass of brand-new clothing, striped shirts and white shirts, grey military overcoats, yellow leather shoes with pointed toes, a red fez, a great padded body-belt with tapes to tie it, a pair of boots, and some richly coloured handkerchiefs and waistbands all striped and worked and fringed.
She seemed to have been running races with a fine collie, who lay at her feet panting, but studying her with his bright eyes, and evidently ready to be off again at the first indication that his playmate had recovered her wind. Chattie was coming lazily over the lawn, stretching each leg behind her as she walked, tail arched, green eyes flaming in the sun, a model of treacherous beauty.
'Chattie, you fiend, come here! cried Rose, holding out a hand to her; 'if Miss Barks were ever pretty she must have looked like you at this moment. 'I won't have Chattie put upon, said Agnes, establishing herself at the other side of the little tea-table; 'she has done you no harm. Come to me, beastie. I won't compare you to disagreeable old maids.
And springing up she dragged in the cat, and snatching a scarlet anemone from a bunch on the table, stood opposite Chattie, who stood slowly waving her magnificent tail from side to side, and glaring as though it were not at all to her taste to be hustled and bustled in this way. 'Now, Chattie, listen! Will she? A leaf of the flower dropped on Chattie's nose. 'Won't she? Will she? Won't she?
The ingredients are extracted from venomous snakes, the cobra de capello, the Carawilla, and the Tic-polonga, by making incisions in the head of these reptiles and suspending them over a chattie to collect the poison as it flows.
Next night they again took him along with them, and after boring a hole in the wall of another house, sent him in with strict injunctions not to make a noise or wake anybody. He crept in noiselessly and entered a large room, in which was an old woman, fast asleep by the fire, with wide-open mouth. An earthen chattie, a wooden spoon, and a small bag of pease were also placed by the fire.
Elsmere, my dear, and be happy ever afterwards, and set me free to live my own life a bit, I'll be so good, you won't know me, Chattie. And you shall have a new collar, my beauty, and cream till you die of it!
Will Tiresome flower, why did Nature give it such a beggarly few petals? 'If I'd had a daisy it would have all come right. Come, Chattie, waltz; and let's forgot this wicked world!
It astonished him to find himself afterward edging over to the corner where she sat with the Rectory cat on her knee an inferior animal, but the best substitute for Chattie available. So it was, however; and once in her neighborhood he made another serious effort to get her to talk to him. The Elsmeres had never seen him so conversational.
At least, if she has she is as unlike other mortals in this as in everything else. But when she does She frowned and meditated, but got no light on the problem. Chattie jumped up on the windowsill, with her usual stealthy aplomb, and rubbed herself against the girl's face. 'Oh, Chattie! cried Rose, throwing her arms round the cat, 'if Catherine 'll only marry Mr.
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