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The boy gave a long, low whistle, the meaning of which was so obvious as to be anything but soothing to Polly's ruffled feelings. "Got a pain in your temper? Didn't you sleep well last night?" he inquired, with mock sympathy. Polly vouchsafed no reply. "Perhaps you lay awake to write another poem," he went on. "How was it, it went: 'The children went chestnutting ?"
She visited the long meadow and the height that stretched along it, and even went so far as the extremity of the valley, at the foot of the twenty-acre lot, and then stood still to gather up the ends of memory. There she had gone chestnutting with Mr. Ringgan thither she had guided Mr.
After a ten minutes' walk the stranger turned into a side road which led to only one place, the Eagle Inn, an old roadside hostelry known now as the headquarters for pothunters from the Philadelphia game market and the battle-ground of many a cock-fight. Gallegher knew the place well. He and his young companions had often stopped there when out chestnutting on holidays in the autumn.
And again again, "I see the saffron woods of yesterday!" About two days after I went chestnutting with Mr. Jennings, I went picnicking. We built a fire in the corner of two stones and cooked chops and bacon. Two days after that we tramped to an old farm-house, five miles straight-away north, and drank sweet cider rather warm from a jelly tumbler with a rough rim.
"It isn't much of a party, even to go after chestnuts, unless you have something to eat. Wait a minute." He hurried back into the house, and soon came out with a pasteboard box. "What's in there?" asked his sister. "Lunch for the chestnutting party," George answered. "Now you won't have to worry, Flossie and Freddie." "That's nice!" said the two little twins in a chorus.
Charley said he'd stop for us, but I'm glad you did, too. The Bobbseys are going with us, Mother," Nellie called back to her mother who was looking out of a window. "It's a regular chestnutting party," said Flossie. "Only we haven't anything to eat," added Freddie, and all the others laughed. "That's so!" exclaimed Nellie's brother George, who was older than any of the others.
She had that very morning broached the subject of a chestnutting party for the following day, and he had promptly said that he was going to the city to make inquiries about routes to the West. "Why, Burt, you can put off your trip to town for a day," said his mother. "If you are to leave us so soon you should make the most of the days that are left."
Then Mistress Kent would have them come out for curds and cream and floating islands, and they planned a chestnutting after the first frost came. They were merry and happy, even if the world was full of sorrow. Yet it seemed so mysterious to Primrose that the songs should be so much about love, and that stories were written and wars made and kingdoms lost for its sake. What was it?
You'd better come right up here next week, and we'll go chestnutting over by Mr. Jonathan Jones's. I tell you it's splendid climbing up. If you're very careful, you needn't tear your dress very badly. Then there's the raft, and you might play baseball, too. I'll teach you. "You see if you don't have a nice time. I can't think of anything more to say. "Your affectionate cousin, "Gypsy."
"Home," said Joy. "Oh, don't; come, we won't laugh any mote. Come back, and you needn't climb. You can stay underneath and pick up while we throw down." "No; I've had enough of it. I don't like chestnutting, and I don't like to be laughed at, either. I shan't stay any longer." "I'm real sorry," said Gypsy. "I couldn't help laughing at you, you did look so terribly funny.
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