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This evening lover and strong flyer, with its swallow-like sweep of wing, comes into the colour schemes of nature with the otter, that at rare times thrusts a sleek grey head from the river, with the grey-brown cotton-tails that bound across the stubble, and the coots that herald dawn in the marshes. Exactly the shades, and almost the markings ofits wings can be found on very old rail fences.
The man gazed steadily into the animal's eyes. After a long pause he continued: "Or do I remain at home to harvest the golden seal, mullein, and ginseng, not to mention an occasional hour with the black bass or tramps for partridge and cotton-tails?" The dog recognized each word of that.
Snubby Nose said, "I was one of the Circus Cotton-Tails once myself." They went downstairs and kissed Susan good-bye. Then they jumped into the wheelbarrow and Bunny wheeled them to the turn in the road. He kissed them good-bye and Snubby Nose cried and he screamed and he howled! Tippy Toes said, "Never mind, we shall meet again some day and my nose is as ugly as yours is!"
"The Circus Cotton-Tails you see Are just as funny as can be." They got out their seventeen little stools and sat by the fire. Bunny and Susan said, "What do you know about the Circus Cotton-Tails?" The Seventeen Little Bears said, "You only see them now at Fairs, But we've become the Circus Bears." "Have you got a Circus tent? Have you got a merry-go-round?" asked Bunny and Susan.
Her father and oafish brother loved the makeshifts of the wagon life, with its chance shots at fleeing antelope, scurrying sage-hens, and bounding cotton-tails; a chance parley with a stray Indian but added zest to the game of chance. But Sally hated it all. The cabin on Elder Creek had a tight roof; Warren Rodney had money in the bank. He had had uncommon luck at trapping.
Snubby Nose and Tippy Toes helped and Bunny and Susan helped too. Grandpa Grumbles cried, "One for the money, ten for the show, Put up the tent, and away we go." He forgot to grumble. He had never been so happy before in all big life. It took the Circus Cotton-Tails and Bunny and Susan just exactly one hour and sixteen minutes to put up the merry-go-round, and Grandpa Grumbles bossed the job.
"If you'll use a lamp dear Bunny, It will save you time and money." Bunny and Susan got into the merry-go-round, and the Circus Cotton-Tails got in too. They were all ready for a ride when Grandpa Grumbles said, "Some are absent, whom do you suppose?" The Circus Cotton-Tails shouted in one breath, "Snubby Nose and Tippy Toes!"
The night gloom fled off the tops of the ridges and sought brief respite in the shelter of the water bottoms. The gray sky warmed to rose tints. New bird notes came twittering from the bushes on all sides, while frisky cotton-tails scampered ahead of them on the roadbed.
McGee, as far as that little willow wood where you got the cotton-tails." "All right," said Dick, "and tell you what I'll do. I'll come, too. I can borrow Jack's rifle." "It's in the tent," said Jack. "Take good care of it." "I'll do that," promised Dick.
In the middle distance off Yerba Buena Island two United States gunboats were at anchor, one of them sending the rays of its powerful searchlight here and there across the water, and making a veritable path of silver far out across the bay. Jack rabbits and cotton-tails scurried across our path and dodged into thickets.
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