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She was called Diana, and his was the last paper drawn. "Faith, Keegan, you're in luck," said McKeon, "for the mare can't but run well. Pat's been training her since May last. I was over there going to Castlereagh, and I saw Pat at her then." "'Deed, then, Mr. McKeon," said Conner, "maybe she'll beat your own mare, much as you think of her." "Oh!
I must either receive a beating or do something to prevent it. I remembered the advice that my uncle Conner had given me about fighting. "John, if you ever get in a fight with a man that overmatches you, take one of his hands in both of yours, and let him strike as he may, but get one of his fingers in your mouth and then bite it, and hold on until he gives up," he had said.
May 1. what do you think. this morning i got up to get my rat and i found that my best hen, the bolton gray that John Adams gave me had tried to pick the cheeze out of the trap and the trap had caught her by the neck and killed her. i felt most bad enuf to cry. i thought i cood get up before the hen did. i went to the may brekfast today. it was may-fair day and they had a brekfast. me and Pewt, Beany, Whacker and Pozzy Chadwick, Micky Gould, Pop Clark, Prisilla Hobbs, Chick Chick-ering, Potter Gorham, Pile Wood, Curly Conner and all the fellers were there. we had a good time and et till just before school time and we had to hiper so as not to be late.
Not the least insult was offered to any one, save one Captain Conner, who had ripped up the linings of his coat and waistcoat, and, watching his opportunity, had filled them with tea. But, being detected, he was handled pretty roughly. They not only stripped him of his clothes, but gave him a coat of mud, with a severe bruising into the bargain.
The children at school called me Gumbo, and teased me so much that I became disgusted with the French language and tried to forget it which has been a disadvantage to me since that time. My aunt was rich in her own right. My uncle Conner was poor; he drank and gambled and wasted her fortune; she in return give him blixen all the time.
"Because we live three thousand miles apart." "Aye, well, shure that 'ud be quite a dandther!" "It didn't take ye long t' git a fortune, did it?" another asked. "I never acquired a fortune such as you are thinking of." "Anna said ye wor rich!" "Anna was right, I am rich, but I was the richest boy in Antrim when I lived here." They looked dumbfounded. "How's that?" Mrs. Conner queried.
C. M. Conner said to me, "it amused me to ask a Filipino how far it was to a certain place, and have him answer, 'Oh, two or three cigarettes, meaning the distance a man should walk in smoking two or three cigarettes!"
The alarm caused by the assembling of the Indians at Greenville, still continuing, governor Harrison, in the autumn of this year, sent to the head chiefs of the Shawanoe tribe, by John Conner, one of our Indian agents, the following address: "My Children Listen to me, I speak in the name of your father, the great chief of the Seventeen Fires.
So the spirit that lives in Corinth the Ally, waited. The power that had put the shadow of pain over the life of Grace Conner, waited for Hope and Dan, until the minister himself should furnish the motive that should call it into action. Dan felt it felt his enemy stirring quietly in the dark, watching, waiting.
She glanced at Lily, radiant with the excitement and pleasure, and decided that she, too, would find some boy to be interested in. Turning around at the mention of her own name, she found David Conner waiting to put her name on his dance program. The Scouts played games and danced until ten o'clock, and then Miss Phillips announced that refreshments were ready in the basement.
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