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Radbury told the other that the only way he could settle up was by calling again, which was the usual Texan method of rounding out such hospitality. "I've a good mind to lock up," remarked Dan, as he reached the dooryard. "I don't like this idea of Indians spying about." "Oh, come on," interrupted Ralph. "We won't be gone long, and no Indian could do much in such a short time."
We have no native plant so indestructible as garden orpine, or live-forever, which our grandmothers nursed, and for which they are cursed by many a farmer. The fat, tender, succulent dooryard stripling turned out to be a monster that would devour the earth. I have seen acres of meadow land destroyed by it.
Even in Piqueur's thin falsetto the old melody sang itself tender, graceful, spirited, never lagging he was dropping pea seeds into the trench that Margot had prepared in the kitchen dooryard, he was always content when he was planting. Felicia limped to the window across the moth-eaten carpet with its faded doves and roses. She flung the casement out and listened eagerly.
The thing that troubles me most, is thinkin' how tickled the Baptists'll be to git her out o' their meetin' an' into ourn!" AT the very moment that Deacon Baxter was I starting out on his quest for a housekeeper, Patty and Mark drove into the Mason dooryard and the sisters flew into each other's arms.
A deserted log-house, windowless, with one corner rotted away, and the sod roof long since tumbled in, stood upon a treeless bend of the dry creek. Abandoned implements littered the dooryard; a rusted hay rake with one wheel gone, a broken mower with cutter-bar drunkenly erect, and the front trucks of a dilapidated wagon.
"Come on, Wattie," she said in a small, superior way, very much as if she had added: "These grown people have weaknesses which it is better for us to pretend not to know. They are going to talk about them." Mrs. Randall waited until the two little figures idled across the dooryard before she spoke. "I don't think you ought to act the way you do, Elick, just because you don't like Mr.
Yet he was truly stunned by the blow; and I hoped, on the day of the funeral, that he did not see what I did. When we went out to get our horse and wagon, I caught my foot in something which at once gave way. I looked down at a broken wicket and a withered apple by the stake. Quite at the other end of the town is a dooryard which, in my own mind, at least, I call the traveling garden.
But Janice Day believed, that, like charity, reformation should begin at home. The old Day house was slowly revolutionized that summer. Commencing with the cleaning up of the yard and the mending of the pump, Janice inspired further improvements. Marty and she spent each Saturday morning in the dooryard and garden, while Mr.
Indeed, we should describe Charlottetown as a place where the hollyhock in the dooryard is considered an ornament. The town is laid out on a generous scale, and it is to be regretted that we could not have seen it when it enjoyed the glory of a governor and court and ministers of state, and all the paraphernalia of a royal parliament.
But a week or two ago, walking home from church with her mother and herself on Sunday night, Joe had detained her for a moment under the dooryard trees had kissed her. Sally was like a young tiger, tamed, petted, innocuous, whose puzzled lips have for the first time tasted blood. Every fibre in her being cried for Joe, his bashful words were her wisdom, his nearness her very breath and being.
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