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I addressed a meeting at that town, and received a vote of confidence. I commenced a tour of the district. The season was very dry, and I had to send feed for my horses by Cobb's coach to Boulia. I went over some of the same ground as in 1890, and when travelling between Boulia and Springvale I saw the tracks made by my buggy in the wet of that year.
As the train leaves Sixty-ninth Street it dips down the Millbourne bend and the cool, damp smell of the Cobb's Creek meadows gushes through the car. Then the track straightens out for a long run toward the City Hall. Roaring over the tree tops, with the lights of movies and shops glowing up from below, a warm typhoon makes one lean against it to keep one's footing.
Our local lion, Obadiah Strout, is as tame as a dove, and we owe it to you." "If I remember aright, a certain Miss Tilly James aided me when I gave the first lesson." "Oh! you mean the time you whistled 'Listen to the Mocking Bird. I wish you had repeated it to-night." Cobb's Twins, William and James, with their wives, were next in line. "How's farming?" asked Quincy.
He had counted so on the situation that of a shipping-clerk in a dry- goods store promised him because of a letter that he carried from Amos Cobb's friend. But at the last moment the former clerk, who had been laid off because of sickness, had been taken back, and so the weary search for work must begin again. And yet with everything against him Oliver had no thought of giving up the struggle.
Three of Cobb's regiments and one from North Carolina were posted behind the stone wall lining the sunken road, while two of Cooke's North Carolina regiments were on the crest of Mayree's Hill overlooking Cobb.
If he could not be persuaded, the judges were resolved to prosecute the law against him. He would be sent away beyond the seas to Spain or Constantinople either Cobb's or Bunyan's colonial geography was rather at fault here or some other remote part of the world, and what good could he do to his friends then?
Certain signs and tokens, personal to myself, warned me that the detective-fever was beginning to set in again. "You can't see Mr. Franklin," I said. "I must, and will, see him." "He went to London last night." Limping Lucy looked me hard in the face, and saw that I was speaking the truth. Without a word more, she turned about again instantly towards Cobb's Hole. "Stop!" I said.
After a while people looked upon Grandma Cobb's book with suspicion; but since she always carried it, thereby keeping it from her grandchildren, and never read it, we agreed that it could not do much harm. The very first time that I saw Grandma Cobb, at Caroline Liscom's, she had that book.
You've gone to a lot of trouble on my account as 'tis, and you've been real kind." The captain hurriedly muttered that he hadn't been kind at all and watched her as she walked up the short path to Mr. Cobb's front door. Then, with a solemn shake of the head, he clinched again at the wagon seat and drove across the road to the hitching-posts before the store.
Now tell me " and she looked searchingly into Cobb's face, as if eager to note the effect of her question "if he were your only son, would you, in view of all I have told you, send him to New York to make his start in life, or would you keep him here?" The Vermonter's face had begun to lighten as she progressed, and had entirely cleared when he learned why he had been sent for.
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