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Updated: June 27, 2025
"Never mind; give us the story." "Well," said Toddie, seating himself in a rocking-chair, and fixing his eyes on the ceiling, "guesh I'll tell about AbrahammynIsaac. Onesh the Lord told a man named Abraham to go up the mountain an' chop his little boy's froat open an' burn him up on a naltar. So Abraham started to go to do it.
"When they got up there," said Toddie, "Abraham made a naltar an' put little Ikey on it, an' took a knife an' was goin' to chop his froat open, when a andzel came out of hebben an' said: 'Stop a-doin' that. So Abraham stopped, an' Ikey skooted; an' Abraham saw a sheep caught in the bushes, an' he caught him an' killed him.
"It's my froat," she said in a very sad tone, and she crept down the passage, nurse watching her from the open door of the nursery. She did not guess that when Penelope turned the last corner she gave a sudden whoop, leapt nearly a foot into the air, and then darted out of the house as fast as she could. "I 'spect I's done it this time," thought Pen.
On the twenty-fourth Sunday the farmer again ignored the plate, but the old beadle stretched the ladle in froat of him and, in a loud, tragic whisper, hoarsely said: "Your time's up noo, Sandy." Jennie, the colored maid, arrived one morning with her head swathed in bandages the result of an argument with her hot-tempered spouse. "Jennie," said her mistress, "your husband treats you outrageously.
I'll tell Aunt Sophy that my froat is so sore, and that I must have constant sweetmeats. Six pennies will get a lot." She walked more slowly. She was in reality in excellent health; even the vinegar was not doing her much harm. "How hungry I'll be when I get to the seaside!" she said to herself. "I'll swell out and get very red and very fat. My body will be 'normous. Oh, there's father!" Mr.
"I thaw cook cut a fowl's froat vis morning. It squorked boofly." "Did it? Alas, that I missed those pleasing-er-squorks," replied the Major, and added: "This is thy natal day, my son. Thou art a man of five." "I'm a debble. I'm a norful little debble," corrected Damocles, cheerfully and with conviction. "Incidentally. But you are five also," persisted the senior man.
"And shut the dure afther ye, and make yersilves scarce till tea-time, like good childer, do." Mrs. Handsomebody was borne away by Mary Ellen and Mrs. Coe, the latter still muttering "terbaccer smoke dahn 'er froat." We restored Coppertoes to his wicker cage, and wrapping it in an antimacassar, hid it beneath the piano.
"I will go with you, Uncle Job," added Mr. Pennant quietly. "You, Massa Gumboat!" cried the negro. "De sodgers put de bagonet frou your crop like a knife frou a pullet's froat!" "Not if you tell them I am the doctor," added the lieutenant. "De doctor! Be you a doctor, sar?"
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