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He might ask her if she wanted the groceries charged before she got the money out to pay for them. And good-by then to Jerry's secret charge account. "You said running errands was my chore," he reminded his mother. "You haven't heard me gripe about having to go to the store, have you?" "Not recently," his mother acknowledged. "It's something to have you so willing.
"We can't do much, being 'only girls," said Anna; "but if each does one small chore somewhere it will pave the way for better work; so we will all try, at least, though it seems like so many ants trying to move a mountain." "Well, ants build nests higher than a man's head in Africa; you remember the picture of them in our old geographies?
By the time he had obeyed orders emptied the last pan of water, taken a look at the two horses in the stable behind the shack, tossed his mud-caked boots through the back door to await his pleasure inter-larding between each chore another glance at the trestle Tressa was in her own room. Torrance returned to the front door.
Grenville is evidently one of Rhodesia's heroines." "She is," he answered so simply that Meryl felt a little nonplussed. When they reached the camp Diana had already dismounted and gone into their tent, whither Meryl followed her. "Well," she said, "how did you get on with The Bear? Did he chore you up over anything?" Meryl considered a moment before replying.
The lady will wait for an answer," said his "chore boy," passing to his master a little three-cornered note, and nodding toward the street. Following the direction indicated, the doctor saw, drawn up near his door, an old-fashioned one-horse wagon, such as is still occasionally seen in New England.
Then I felt a cold coming on, but I crawled around for another day, doing the best I could. The night before the day you came I went out to milk and I must have fainted. When I came to I was within an inch of old Blossom's hoofs. That scared me, and I came right into the house without finishing a chore.
At first the colt would sniff suspiciously at him from under the shelter of the old sorrel's neck, but in time he came to regard Lafe without fear, and to suffer a hand on his flank or the chore boy's arm over his shoulder. So between them was established a gentle confidence beautiful to see. Fortunate it would have been had Lafe been master of horse on the Perkins farm. But he was not.
The children are nice children enough, but have they got any folks anywhere, 'n' what kind of folks, 'n' where'd they come from, anyhow: that's what we've got to find out, 'n' I guess it'll be consid'able of a chore!" "I don't know but you're right. I thought some of sendin' Jabe to the city to-morrow." "Jabe?
"Where's your chore boy to take the horses?" "I'll rustle him," replied the River Boss. Bobby drew a deep breath of pleasure, and looked about him. From the land's edge extended a wide surface of logs. Near at hand little streaks of water lay between some of them, but at a short distance the prospect was brown and uniform, until far away a narrow flash of blue marked the open river.
And then the heart-lung machine fell silent again, and the carefully applied nodal stimulator flicked on and off, and slowly, at first hesitantly, then firmly and vigorously, the new heart began its endless pumping chore. The Black Doctor's blood pressure moved up to a healthy level and stabilized; the gray flesh of his face slowly became suffused with healthy pink.
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