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When he returned to the hen house he was surprised to see some one in a brand new suit of funny-looking overalls sitting on the gravel pile waiting for him. As he came near, the stranger arose and looked toward him, but it was not until he got within a few feet that he recognized in the figure before him Ruth Thomas.
Phil did not know exactly what was meant by the expression, but it set him to thinking, and out of the suggestion he was destined to "work up" something that was really worthwhile, and that was to give him his first real start in the circus world. "What's that funny-looking fellow over there doing?" interrupted Teddy. "That man down near the end of the table?" "Yes."
"All right, mother," says Jack; "it's market-day today, and I'll soon sell Milky-white, and then we'll see what we can do." So he took the cow's halter in his hand, and off he starts. He hadn't gone far when he met a funny-looking old man who said to him: "Good morning, Jack." "Good morning to you," said Jack, and wondered how he knew his name.
I think mother'll give me some of my last year's dresses to give her, and then she won't have to wear that funny-looking rig she had on." "She likes that," said Marjorie. "I don't believe she'd wear your dresses if you took them to her." By this time the girls had reached the Sherwood house, and Grandma invited Molly to stay to dinner, which invitation the little girl gladly accepted.
"No; I certainly don't," was the reply, as the Archæopteryx, followed by a funny-looking little old man, came running back.
"Oh, I see them!" said Rob, in an excited whisper. "What funny-looking things they are five of them!" "Two stags, three cows," said Alex, quietly. "Too far to shoot. Wait awhile." They drew back now into the cover of the surrounding valleys, where it is true the mosquitoes annoyed them unspeakably, but where they remained with such patience as they could possess.
The first thing I drew out was too much for me. "'What a funny-looking basque! exclaimed Alice. All the rest were struck dumb with disappointment. "No! not a basque at all, but a man's black satin waistcoat! and next came objects about which there could be no doubt, a pair of dingy old trousers, and a swallow-tailed coat! Imagine the chorus of damsels!
She pulled herself together and looked curiously about her. What struck her at first was the total absence of bunks. There were a couple of plain, iron bedsteads and two wooden ones made of rough planks. There was a funny-looking table made of an inverted coffee box with legs of two-by-four, and littered with a charactertistic collection of bachelor trinkets.
The ament is common to forest-trees, as the oak and chestnut, and is also found upon the willow and poplar." "It's funny-looking," said Malcolm, when he had made himself thoroughly acquainted with the appearance of the catkin, "but it doesn't look much like a flower: it looks more like a pussy's tail." "Yes, and that is the origin of its name.
"Don't the people seem funny-looking?" said Judith, blinking at the gayly dressed crush at the theater entrance. "They all seem like actors in a play, with the twinkly electric lights and the streaky yellow sunset behind those big buildings."
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