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One day we were sittin' out in the front yard of his house it's mine, now watchin' a hoptoad catch flies. You've seen a toad catch flies, haven't you, Mr. Fosdick? Mr. Toad sits there, lookin' half asleep and as pious and demure as a pickpocket at camp-meetin', until a fly comes along and gets too near. Then, Zip! out shoots about six inches of toad tongue and that fly's been asked in to dinner.
Both Mrs. and Miss Fosdick uttered this exclamation. "Why, yes. You see, they were such rot. The things I wanted to write about, the things I had seen and was seeing, the the fellows like Mike and their pluck and all that well, it was all too big for me to tackle. My jingles sounded, when I read them over, like tunes on a street piano. I couldn't do it.
He is engaged to Madeline, and we have told every one that he is, so he will have to marry her; at least, I see no way to prevent it." "Humph!" grunted Fosdick. "And after that I'll have to support them, I suppose." "Probably unless you want your only child to starve." "Well, I must say, Henrietta " "You needn't, for there is nothing more TO say.
"I am hoping to enter Columbia College next commencement. I suppose my time will be a good deal taken up with study, but I shall always find time for you and Fosdick. I hope you both will call upon me." Both boys readily accepted the invitation in advance, and Dick promised to write to Frank at his boarding-school in Connecticut. At about half past ten, the two boys left the St.
She elevated it by asking what his thoughts were when taken prisoner by the Germans. He looked puzzled. "Thoughts, Mrs. Fosdick?" he repeated. "I don't know that I understand, exactly. I was only partly conscious and in a good deal of pain and my thoughts were rather incoherent, I'm afraid." "But when you regained consciousness, you know. What were your thoughts then?
And we saw Ashton for just a few minutes, down in the City." "Ah!" exclaimed Mr. Pawle. "You have seen him, then! Did anything happen?" "You mean relating to what he'd told us?" said Fosdick. "Well, no more than I asked him sort of jokingly, how the secret was. And he said it was just about to come out, and we must watch the papers." "There was a remark he made," observed Stephens.
"I never flirt with any man; I am known as the Saint, the Puritan, I might try it, but I couldn't with you.... Tell me about Vick. Have you seen him?" "Yes," Fosdick replied gravely. "I ran across him in Venice." "How was he?" "He looked well, has grown rather stout.... The first time I saw him was on the Grand Canal; met him in a smart gondola, with men all togged out, no end of a get-up!"
"I'll keep mum unless I lose something more, and then I'll kick up a row, and haul her over the coals. Have you missed anything?" "No," said Fosdick, answering for himself, as he could do without violating the truth. There was a gleam of satisfaction in the eyes of Travis, as he heard this. "They haven't found it out yet," he thought. "I'll bag the money to-day, and then they may whistle for it."
"I keep that tea for ministers' folks," gayly responded Mrs. Todd. "Come right along in, Susan Fosdick. I declare if you ain't the same old sixpence!" As they came up the walk together, laughing like girls, I fled, full of cares, to the kitchen, to brighten the fire and be sure that the lobster, sole dependence of a late supper, was well out of reach of the cat.
"Did it occur to you to question whether or not that determination of yours was quite fair to me?" she asked. "Why why, yes, it did. And I don't know that it IS exactly fair to you. "Never mind. Go on. Tell me the rest. How did it end?" "Well, it ended in a sort of flare-up. Mr. Fosdick was just a little bit sarcastic, and I expressed my feelings rather freely too freely, I'm afraid."
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