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More than that exposed him to suspicion, and hindered his usefulness in Coös County. Somehow, we got talking of Mr. Remington, which we might well do, seeing him there before us, sleeping like a baby. "That he could always do, like Napoleon," said Mr. Lewis, "and so can accomplish much without fatigue." "Is he married?" said I. "Yes. His wife is in delicate health."
He said he had had too much of himself, he had known himself too well, and when death came, he wanted it to be an honest little death with no frills, and after that an everlasting sleep with no dreams. I am putting it all in the wrong order. I shall make you despise me. You talk so well yourself." Jay was remembering the "Coos" they used to have in the big armchair in the nursery.
His ignorance is more charming than all knowledge, and his little sins more bewitching than any virtue. His flesh is angels' flesh, all alive. All day, between his three or four sleeps, he coos like a pigeon-house, sputters and spurs and puts on his faces of importance; and when he fasts, the little Pharisee fails not to sound his trumpet before him."
"He wes a stoot, broad-shouldered gentleman o' middle size," said Bell in one of her reminiscent moods; "when I first knew him he wes gettin' bent wi' age, and his hair wes snow-white and lang on his shoulders like. I couldna' ha' been muckle mair ner five or sax year auld when he took me by the hand and askit me if I'd like to come an' herd his coos an' leeve wi' his niece at the chapel hoose.
On the sunlit open space before the church, in the centre of which rose the ilex-tree, pigeons and a few lean fowls were pecking and dusting their wings, with rapturous coos and chuckles. No one appeared at the doors of the hovels, all of which stood open, nor did any voice but that of hens proceed from thence.
So that is how I "came by my inheritance," as Miss Dorothy calls it; and just for that, though I couldn't feel where I was any different, the crowd follows me to my bench, and pats me, and coos at me, like I was a baby in a baby-carriage.
He was active though, and tried all sorts of ways to get the better of me. Finding that he could not succeed, he uttered several coos a sound heard a long way in the bush, and just then coming into use among the settlers. Again he closed with me, so that I could not strike him with my gun, while he tried with his legs to trip me up.
Rocky-mountain Region. Railroad from Columbia River to Puget Sound. Mountain Changes. Mixture of Nationalities. Journey to Coos Bay, Oregon. Mountain Cañon. A Branch of the Coquille. Empire City. Myrtle Grove. Yaquina. Genial Dwellers in the Woods. Our Unknown Neighbor. Whales. Pet Seal and Eagle. A Mourning Mother. Visit from Yeomans. PORT TOWNSEND, November 18, 1872.
'Theer's Aunt Hannah shoutin. I mun goo an get t' coos. David ran down the hill with her. 'What'll yo do if I tell? she inquired maliciously at the bottom. 'If yo do I shall cut at yance, an yo'll ha all the longer time to be by yoursen. A darkness fell over the girl's hard shining gaze.
Swallows do not make a summer, but when the turtle-dove coos summer is certainly come. One afternoon one of the pair flew up into a hornbeam which stood beside the garden not twenty yards at farthest. At first he sat upright on the branch watching me below, then turned and fluttered down to the nest beneath.
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