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All these had been bought in the Blue Mountains in a poor, lean condition, and were going to be fatted up on the rich pasture lands of Southern Australia, and sold again at a great profit. Sam Machell expected to get pounds 2 on each bullock, and 10s. on every sheep, which would bring him in pounds 3,750.
Effie! If that puir wandering lamb comena into the sheepfauld in the Shepherd's ain time, it will be an unco wonder, for I wot she has been a child of prayers. Oh, if the puir prodigal wad return, sae blithely as the goodman wad kill the fatted calf! though Brockie's calf will no be fit for killing this three weeks yet."
And the son said unto him, Father, I have sinned against heaven, and in thy sight, and am no more worthy to be called thy son. But the father said to his servants, Bring forth the best robe, and put it on him; and put a ring on his hand, and shoes on his feet. And bring hither the fatted calf, and kill it; and let us eat and be merry.
"I reckon yore folks will kill the fatted calf for you," jeered Hugh Roush. "They tell me you always been mighty high-heeled, 'Lindy Clanton. Mebbe you won't hold yore head so high now." The girl rode between them down from the hills. Who knows into what an agony of fear and remorse and black despair she fell? She could not go home a cast-off, a soiled creature to be scorned and pointed at.
Now this cunning fellow never told his simple cousins that the oxen had to bear a heavy wooden yoke and chain, and were made to work very hard; nor that the cows were fed that they might give milk to the children; nor that the pigs were fatted to make pork; nor that the sheep had their warm fleeces cut off every year that the settlers might have the wool to spin and weave.
"I'm glad to hear it," was the dry response. "He has formed himself in some degree. Hints that he is going to produce literature." "Of course." Spence laughed merrily. "The last refuge of a scoundrel." "I don't like to judge him so harshly, Ned. He has a fine face." "And is Miriam killing the fatted calf?" "His arrival seems to embarrass rather than delight her."
The fatted calf was killed for him in a very simple but full-hearted way. There was no other guest to witness the meeting. 'And here you are, said the father. 'Yes, sir, here I am; all that's left of me. 'There is quite plenty, said the father, looking at the large proportions of his son. 'It seems but a day or two since you went; and yet they have been long days.
"Mile a minute faster'n a train Holy Moses! what's that, Joe? broke axle telegraphed how many four more you don't say so? what's his name? I'll bet it's Vanderbilt. Don't you believe it it costs money to run one of those machines. I'll bet he's a dandy from 'way back stopping at your house bridal chamber that's right you want to kill the fatted calf for them fellers say "
Dishes of nightingales' tongues, of fatted dormice, and even of snails, were among their food: and sometimes a stream was made to flow along the table, containing the living companion of the mullet which served as part of the meal. Young Tiberius Sempronius Gracchus, the eldest of Cornelia's jewels, was sent in the year 137 to join the Roman army in Spain.
In the evening my Lady Warrington had to receive all the gentry of the little town, which she did with perfect grace and good-humour, and I had to shake hands with a few old acquaintances old enemies I was going to say; but I had come into a fortune and was no longer a naughty prodigal. Why, a drove of fatted calves was killed in my honour!
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