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Herman explained with vehemence that it would not be right for him to leave the stable upon any errand until just restorations had been made. He spoke inimically of the cat that had been the occasion of his loss, and he earnestly requested that operations with the clothes-prop be resumed in the cistern.

I tried to dislodge him with a clothes-prop, but I only succeeded in knocking two costly vases off of the mantel-piece, and the dog became so excited and threatening that I shut the door hurriedly and went up stairs four steps at a time. There was nothing to interest him especially in the parlor, and I cannot imagine why he wanted to stay there.

In happy ignorance of the doctor's plans, Peter and Dan'l each provided himself with a clothes-prop, and in due time made for the appointed sides of the wall; but no sooner did the boy catch sight of his pursuers than he started off on another all-fours run; but this took him away from the house, and before he had gone far he turned and ran back.

"Ass!" said Alwyn under his breath "One would like to shake him out of his absurd self-complacency!" Heliobas shrugged his shoulders expressively: "My dear fellow, he would only bray! and the braying of an ass is not euphonious! No! you might as well shake a dry clothes-prop and expect it to blossom into fruit and flower, as argue with a musical critic, and expect him to be enthusiastic!

"No, no; let me be," cried Dexter, declining the offer of the clothes-prop, as he had avoided it before when he was on the top of the wall. "I can swim ashore if you'll let me be."

So you watch it. You've made this smoke taste 'orrid-'orrid. No sauce, now; no sauce." By two o'clock the results of Mr. Marrapit's colossal scheme began to pour in. The bowls of milk, gleaming along the wall of Herons' Holt, drew every stray cat within a radius of two miles. Beneath, each armed with a clothes-prop, toiled Mr. Fletcher and Frederick under the immediate generalship of Mr. Marrapit.

Marston's black and white hens and the minorca cockerel pecked about the open door and came in inquiringly, upon which Martha, who sat near the door for that purpose, swept them softly out with the clothes-prop, which she manipulated in a masterly manner. Mrs. Marston, eyeing Hazel at all the 'Amens, when, as she always said, one ought to look up, like fowls after a drink, thought it was a pity.

You take the clothes-line and stretch it in the grape-arbor better not make it too high at first and then you take the clothes-prop for a balance-pole and go right ahead er er as far as you can. The real reason why you fall off so is that you don't have chalk on your shoes. Got to have lots of chalk. Then after you get used to the rope wabbling so all-fired fast, you can do it like a mice.

I knowed it, because they had iron tips. A rod with iron tips is no better'n a clothes-prop to ward off lightnin'." "The man who sold them to me said they had platinum tips," remarked Keyser. "Ah! this is a wicked world, Mr. Keyser. You can't be too cautious. Some of these yer agents lie like a gas-meter. It's awful, sir. They are wholly untrustworthy.

"Thenk Gord!" said Frederick. "Thenk Gord! I've pretty well busted myself over this game." Mr. Fletcher said nothing; drew his snail from his pocket; plunged head downwards in a bush. Woe sat heavy upon him; beneath the indignity and labour of thrusting at stranger cats with a clothes-prop this man had grievously suffered. The Rose was stolen. That was Mr.