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Pryor arrived with Gibson. we are much pleased in findeing him by no means as ill as we had expected. we do not conceive him in danger by any means, tho he has yet a fever and is much reduced. we believe his disorder to have originated in a violent Cold which he contracted in hunting and prosueing Elk and other game through the Swamps and marshes about the salt works. he is nearly free from pain tho a good deel reduced and very languid. we gave him double doses of diluted niter and made him drink plentifully of Sage tea, had his feat bathed in worm water and at 9 P.M. gave him 35 drops of laudanum.
Uncle Peabody used to call them the "Minervy flowers" because they were a present from his Aunt Minerva. When Aunt Deel returned to the kitchen where I sat a sorrowing little refugee hunched up in a corner she said: "I'll have to tell your Uncle Peabody ayes!" "Oh please don't tell my Uncle Peabody," I wailed. "Ayes! I'll have to tell him," she answered firmly.
You've taken the mouse away from the cat." I remember the little panic that fell on us then. I could see tears in the eyes of Aunt Deel as she sat with her head leaning wearily on her hand. "If he does I'll do all I can," said Barnes, "whatever I've got will be yours." The nail came out of the wall. "I had enough saved to pay off the mortgage," my uncle answered.
"No, sir!" he shouted so loudly that we all jumped to our feet and Aunt Deel covered her face with her apron and began to cry. It was like the explosion of a blast. It was like the shout of Israel from the top of the mountains. Shep bounced into the house with hair on end and the chickens cackled and the old rooster clapped his wings and crowed with all the power of his lungs.
Aunt Deel was treating me like company and with just a pleasant touch of the old company finish in her voice and manner. It was for my benefit there could be no doubt of that for she addressed herself to me, chiefly, and not to Mr. Dunkelberg. My absence of a few days had seemed so long to them! It had raised me to the rank of company and even put me above the exalted Dunkelbergs although if Mrs.
I have always laid it to the butternut trousers the most sacred bit of apparel of which I have any knowledge. "What have you got on them butternut trousers for?" I used to hear Aunt Deel say when he came down-stairs in his first best clothes to go to meeting or "attend" a sociable those days people just went to meeting but they always "attended" sociables "You're a wearin' `em threadbare, ayes!
Shep was rubbing his neck fondly on the schoolmaster's boot. "That dog couldn't think more o' me if I were a bone," he said as he went away. Which is the Story of the Principal Witness It was a sunny day in late September on which Aunt Deel and Uncle Peabody took me and my little pine chest with all my treasures in it to the village where I was to go to school and live with the family of Mr.
My uncle told Aunt Deel that I acted and spoke like Silas Wright, "so nice and proper." Sally was different, too less playful and more beautiful with long yellow curls covering her shoulders. "How nice you look!" she said as she took my arm and led me into her playroom. "These are my new clothes," I boasted. "They are very expensive and I have to be careful of them."
"That's what the Bible says," Aunt Deel answered. "Wal the Bible ?" Uncle Peabody stopped. What was in his mind we may only imagine. To our astonishment the clock struck twelve. "Hurrah! It's merry Christmas!" said Uncle Peabody as he jumped to his feet and began to sing of the little Lord Jesus. We joined him while he stood beating time with his right hand after the fashion of a singing master.
I have Called them the horned Lizzard. they are about the Size and a good deel the figure of the Common black lizzard. but their bellies are broader, the tail Shorter and their action much Slower; they Crawl much like the toad. they are of a brown Colour with yellowish and yellowish brown Spots. it is covered with minute scales intermixed with little horney like blunt prickkles on the upper Surface of the body. the belly and throat is more like the frog and are of a light yellowish brown Colour. around the edge of the belly is regularly Set with little horney prejections which give to those edges a Serrate figure, the eye is Small and of a dark colour. above and behind the eyes there are Several Projections of the bone which being armed at their extremities with a firm black Substance has the appearance of horns Sprouting out from the head. this part has induced me to distinguish it by the appellation of the Horned Lizard.
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