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Updated: June 27, 2025
The last stroke of the bell saw almost everybody within the mill doors. There were always fluffs of cotton in the air like great white bees drifting down out of the picker chimney.
They looked earnestly to discover whom this queen might be, and saw advancing up the room an exquisite wax doll dressed in dainty fluffs and ruffles and spangled gown. She was almost as big as Button-Bright, and her cheeks and mouth and eyebrow were prettily painted in delicate colors.
Yet with unfailing instinct he squats on some twig, fluffs up his feathers, tucks his wee head behind his wing, and sleeps the sleep of his first adult birdhood as soundly as if this position of rest had been familiar to him since he broke through the shell. We admire his aptitude for learning; how quickly his wings gain strength and skill; how soon he manages to catch his own dinner.
The hanging of curtains was suspended while they rushed out to see the newly arrived rabbits with their meek eyes and tremulous pink mouths, or dashed out to the poultry-yard to have another look at the downy little fluffs of yellow that were pretending to be chickens. But the real excitement of the day was when the workmen had departed, and Mr.
"Ah-r-r-r chee!" says Swifty. "How do I know?" That's some surprisin' too; for as a rule he ain't strong on drawin' fine distinctions. If they're young and flossy dressed, he calls 'em "fluffs"; but anything over twenty-five, no matter how she's costumed, is a lady to Swifty, even a scrubwoman. So his describin' this visitor as a female party gets me curious.
Lord, t' think as my little Hermy'll be a married woman this night!" "And oh, Ann, I haven't any trousseau " "Shucks! You don't need none. You're best as you are. You won't need no fluffs an' frills, I reckon." "But, Ann dear," said Hermione, lifting her head and shaking it ruefully, "I have nothing! And my best dress I made it in such a hurry, you remember it needs pressing and "
Over the pool three cottonwoods sent their scurvy fluffs fluttering down the quiet air. On the slope the blossoms of the wine-wooded manzanita filled the air with springtime odors, while the leaves, wise with experience, were already beginning their vertical twist against the coming aridity of summer.
Bending over the flower beds she was hardly conscious that darkness had fallen over the earth a heavenly, summer-cool darkness with veiled stars prophetic of a blessed shower. She repaired to the porch swing to dream her dreams of fluffs and frills, arrange a dream house and live therein.
He was relatin' an A. W. O. L. adventure in which a little French girl by the name of Mimi figured prominent, when Budge Haley, who was a corporal in the Twenty-seventh and got all the way to Coblenz, crashed in heartless. "Cheap stuff, them base port fluffs," says Budge. "Always beggin' you for chocolate or nickin' you for francs some way. And as for looks, I couldn't see it.
No artist had ever dreamed of so wonderful a scheme of color such miracles of color combinations in every feather from the quill to the spider-web-like fluffs at the tips, each of which shone not like gold but like glass. It was well worth all the nudging that it called forth. But when Mrs.
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