Vietnam or Thailand ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Updated: June 9, 2025
"The girls are all coming." Rankin felt himself blush ignominiously. "No," he growled. "I've got some work to do to-night." "What, at the ranch?" Rankin paused to take account with his conscience. Being a downeaster, he liked to keep on good terms with that monitor. But conscience had no fault to find as he presently answered, "Yes, at the ranch."
It was a favorite declaration of theirs, but its absurdity was comical, when one remembered that the majority of them could not for their lives tell the names of the New England States, and could no more distinguish a Downeaster from an Illinoisan than they could tell a Saxon from a Bavarian.
It was a favorite declaration of theirs, but its absurdity was comical, when one remembered that the majority of them could not for their lives tell the names of the New England States, and could no more distinguish a Downeaster from an Illinoisan than they could tell a Saxon from a Bavarian.
Amberley was himself a tall, limp-looking downeaster, with pleasant, unsuspicious eyes, and a guileless spirit. He used to hand his cattle over to Baker once a year, and let him drive them with his own down the long mountain road to Springtown, and it was understood than he did not inquire too curiously in the matter of commissions.
Why young man, where was you educated, to learn the possibility of doing such a thing? There is no such word as failing to a downeaster." "I think you must have failed once, or you would not be here," retorted Sidney, facetiously. "The best failure for us that was ever made," said Jane, earnestly. "We shall find our way out by that means."
Word Of The Day
Others Looking