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But Dick, with a light laugh, bounded away, shinned up a tree, and, sitting in a crotch, swung his feet toward the faces of Tom, Dave and Harry as they tried to get him and drag him down. "You've got a strategic position, just now," growled Reade. "But just you wait until we catch you down on the ground again!" "You fellows must feel pretty well sold," Greg taunted them.
A baby-grand piano. Later to be Alma's engagement gift from "mamma and papa." No, "mamma and Louis." Better so. How her neck and her shoulder blade and now her elbow were flaming with the pain. She cried a little, quite silently, and tried a poor, futile scheme for easing her head in the crotch of her elbow. Now then: She must knit Louis some neckties. The silk-sweater stitch would do.
Georgina took him all over it, from the garret where she played on rainy days to the seat up in the willow, where standing in its highest crotch one could look clear across the Cape to the Atlantic. They made several plans for their treasure-quest while up in the willow.
These homes of theirs are another proof of industry; they are beautifully woven of a dozen kinds of stuff grass, bark-strips, seed-vessels, fine shavings, and sometimes bits of colored paper and worsted, and half hang from the crotch of a small branch with a nice little umbrella of leaves to cover Madam's head.
Sometimes it is a crevice in the rocks under moss and ferns; sometimes the splintered end of a broken branch; sometimes a deserted owl's nest in a hollow tree; often a crotch in a big pine, covered carefully by brown needles; but wherever it is, it is full of bright things glass, and china, and beads, and tin, and an old spoon, and a silvered buckle and nobody but the crow himself knows how to find it.
Concluding that there was not much the matter with him, we hastened down to the brook. There hung one horse William-le-Bon head downward, pawing on the stones in the brook with his fore hoofs. He had caught his left hind leg in the crotch of a yellow birch-tree that grew at the foot of the ledges. In the brook lay Sally, with a broken foreleg. Beyond her was Duncan, dead; he had broken his neck.
On our way we passed a Shawanee town, where I saw a number of heads, arms, legs, and other fragments of the bodies of some white people who had just been burnt. The parts that remained were hanging on a pole which was supported at each end by a crotch stuck in the ground, and were roasted or burnt black as a coal.
She could not ask Miss Crotch to play any more till she had rested "Georgiana! for want of something better, do try what you can give us She will appear to great disadvantage, of course My dear, I think we have not had O Giove omnipotente." "I am not equal to that, ma'am," said Georgiana, drawing back: "you should call upon Miss La Grande."
He threw to the ground a flat stone he had been resting in the crotch of the tree, his only weapon of defense, dropped nimbly down after it, and started for the water. "Hold on," directed Frank; "there's a crossing plank a little way farther down the stream." "I'm wet, anyway," explained the boy, dashing into the water, and he came up to Frank, dripping to the waist.
In a minute each hunter had his gun into position, Giant resting on a rock and Whopper in the crotch of a low tree. "I'll take the buck," whispered Jed Sanborn. "Ready?" "Yes." "Then fire!" Crack! went the several firearms, in a scattering volley, and the buck and one of the others pitched headlong, not to rise.
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