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She had never seen so large a one in the stores. He was covered with real hair, had a splendid mane and tail and beautiful eyes. His silver-mounted red trappings were extremely gorgeous. "He's magnificent!" declared Ben. "Hanny, just try him. Don't be a little 'fraid-cat!" as she hung back. "See here!" Lu sprang on and took an inspiriting gallop.
"Miss Fairfield is awfully afraid of electrical storms," explained Jack, patting the wet heap anywhere, in a well-meant attempt at reassurance. "Pooh!" exclaimed Daisy. "What a 'fraid-cat! I'm not frightened, but I'm terribly wet. I'm soaked! I'm drowned!" "So are we all, Daisy," said Bill, shivering as the wind flapped his dripping shirtsleeves; "but what CAN we do? The car won't move."
"Hoh hoh 'fraid-cat 'fraid-cat!" laughed both boys, hopping about in glee, and singing over and over, "Fraid-cat 'fraid-cat!" Joel clenched his little brown hands together tightly. It was hard work not to fly at them and pommel away. "But Davie's ankle dear dear!" So he held his breath and kept still.
All were surprised at Laura's sudden departure, but no one seemed especially grief- stricken. Dicky announced confidentially to Philip that Laura was a 'norful 'fraid-cat of frogs, and Jack ventured the opinion that Miss Laura hadn't 'boy' enough in her for camp-life. 'But where is Polly? asked Bell, looking round the table, as she pinned up her riding-skirt and sat down in her usual seat.
Puss thanked her new friend, and together they stole To the back of the palace, and crept through a hole In the fence, and quietly came to the stair Which the stranger Pussy-cat promised was there. "Now here I must leave you," the strange Pussy said, "So do n't be 'fraid-cat, but go straight ahead, And do n't be alarmed if by chance you are seen, For people will think you belong to the Queen."
He advanced a few paces toward the weathered heap of debris and broke into a time-honored taunt: Silvey, th' bilvey, Th' rik-stick-stilvey! To which the intrenched commander of the enemy replied, Fletcher, oh, Fletcher, Th' old fly catcher, and exposed just enough of his person to wriggle ten brazen fingers from the tip of his nose. John made a last, despairing attempt. "'Fraid-cat! 'Fraid-cat!
She was like a little plant growing in the shade a gently good child, who never gave anybody any trouble; she continued to be a 'fraid-cat, and looked under the bed every night for a burglar. With Blair at boarding-school her life was very solitary, for of course there was no intimacy between her and her stepmother. Mrs.
Then he shrilled out after Reddy Fox: "Reddy Fox is a 'fraid cat, 'fraid-cat! Reddy Fox is a 'fraid-cat!" And all the Merry Little Breezes of Old Mother West Wind, who were playing on the Green Meadows shouted: "Reddy Fox is a 'fraid-cat, 'fraid-cat!" And this is the way that Reddy Fox was surprised and that Johnny Chuck found his way home.
But Joel didn't know how to stop; he pounded away so much and so fast, and they didn't exactly seem to know where he was going to strike next, that in a few minutes both boys were crying as hard as they could. "'Fraid-cat! 'Fraid-cat!" sang Joel, dancing around them, and swinging his fists in the liveliest fashion.
"So you think I'm a 'fraid-cat, Mr. Elliot?" His inclination marched with hers. It was their first adventure together and he did not want to spoil it by undue caution. There really was not much danger yet so long as they were careful. Gordon abandoned the traverse and followed an ascending crack in the wall. The going was hard.
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