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"We will go up stream, the other way," conceded Louise, delighted at the prospect of their crabbing party. "Come on, here is where we hire our boat, and get our crabbing outfit." Down to the landing that jutted out into the shallow Round River, the girls hurried to procure their fishing outfit. "A flat bottomed boat," urged Cleo. "All right," agreed Louise. "But any big boat will do.
She timed her day, as far as possible, with his. Would he swim, play tennis, or go crabbing there was Dorothea. Would he repose in the summerhouse hammock and listen to entire pages declaimed from Tennyson and Longfellow, the while being violently swung his slave was ready. She read no story in which she was not the heroine and Amiel the hero.
The ride seems like eternity, it lapses off so gentle and smooth, and the landscape is so impressively similar: everywhere the plunging surf, the gray sand-hills, the dark cedars with foliage sliced off sharp and flat by the keen east wind their stems twisted like a dishclout or like the olives around Florence. Or she goes with Jefferson and Madison on a "crabbing" hunt.
Lastly, there was that other class, the crabbed and the crusty, who would, had they belonged to Us, have retired behind their papers in the Club windows, but as it was, and being dogs, merely made off out of earshot, with their ruffs up, grumbling to themselves and crabbing all things. There were some of all classes here as elsewhere.
He talked then, when she would hear no more of that, of Tuesday seven-night, when they would meet for hawking in the lower chase of the Padley estates; and proceeded then to speak of Agnes, whom he had left on the fist of the man who had taken his mare, of her increasing infirmities and her crimes of crabbing; and all the while he held her left hand in both of his, and fitted her fingers between his, and kissed them again when he had no more to say on any one point; and wondered why he could not speak of the matter on which he had come, and how he should tell her.
"A crabbing beast! It was just like my luck that he should come up at that moment and have the supreme joy of seeing Gamble " Gamble was the filly's rarely-used name "wallowing in the ditch! That's the second time he's scored off me. I pity poor little Maudie Spicer for having such a brother!" In spite of this discouraging début, the filly's education went on and prospered.
He writes to Burr, dated "Elizabethtown, August 9th, 1774. "I received yours by Mr. Beach, dated Sunday. Last Saturday I went a crabbing. Being in want of a thole-pin, I substituted a large jackknife in its stead, with the blade open and sticking up.
They added to the excitement of the sport by making it a competition between their birds; and flying them one after another, or sometimes at the same quarry, as in coursing; but this often led to the birds' crabbing. Anthony's peregrine Eliza was almost unapproachable; and the lad was the more proud of her as he had "made" her himself, as an "eyess" or young falcon captured as a nestling.
They made a regular crabbing crew now, two to pull up, and one to scoop in; and never had the sprawling game been more plentiful on that pasture, or more apparently in a greedy hurry to be captured. "What on earth shall we do with them all?" asked Ford. "Soon's we've got enough for a mess for both our folks," said Dab, "we'll quit this, and go for some fish.
But remain on your head until we make sure that all the conceit has run out of you!" Mr. Briggs was still "crabbing it" over the floor. Every minute the task became more irksome. "Up with you, mister," Prescott admonished. "No self-respecting crab, with an abundance of animal spirits, ever trails along the ground like that." After some two minutes of standing on his head Mr.
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