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Side by side they seated themselves on a fallen tree. The young wood gatherer looked wicked enough to do anything that might be requested of him. "Are you married?" asked Morse. Maudlin's face darkened. "No," he grunted moodily. "Ha! In love? I see!" laughed the other.
There were shells, corals, sea-ivory curios, such as are collected by seamen the world over. Cap'n Abe was an indefatigable gatherer of such wares. There was a green sea chest standing with its lid wide open, tarred rope handles on its ends, that may have been around the world a score of times. It was half filled with old books.
"Now, if Mary were here," thought Billie, "she would at once make a story of this: 'The Princess and the Old Witch. I am sure Mary would call me a princess," she added modestly. When the young girl and the old witch met, they paused without exactly knowing why. The herb gatherer had a strange, small, yellow face, crossed and re-crossed with wrinkles.
And the soul of Uncle Sam has turned into a dollar-inside his great, big, strong, triumphant flesh; so that even his new religion, his own special invention, his last offering to the creeds of the world, his gatherer of converted hordes, his Christian Science, is based upon physical benefit." John touched the horses. "You're particularly cheerful to-day!" "No. I merely summarize what I'm seeing."
It was no trick to bag a half dozen of these birds at a shot, on account of their numbers, and, as before related, while Angel never ate any of them, he was the most persistent gatherer because the beautiful oval eggs attracted him, and George's cakes always appealed to his fancy.
"So-long!" called out Toby, cheerfully, as he started to follow the trail left by Max and Steve on their way from the river, half a mile away. "If we meet up with this mysterious shell gatherer, what ought we to do?" asked the second boy, halting. "Act friendly, and pay attention to your own business, that's all. Nobody will hurt you," Max called out, as he turned into the camp.
The tax gatherer whose tiny office was just inside the gate came to know the little gentleman very well, and although he could speak no English he would bob his grizzled head and murmur: "Buon giorno, signore!" as the stranger passed out on his daily stroll. One afternoon Mr.
The sum of Five Hundred Pounds was to be paid to Miss Tranter, hostess of "The Trusty Man," "for her kindness to me on the one night I passed under her hospitable roof," and sums of Two Hundred Pounds each were left to "Matthew Peke, Herb Gatherer," and Farmer Joltram, both these personages to be found through the aforesaid Miss Tranter.
Remember the American girl is used to arranging her own marriage, and besides . . . for nothing in the world would I try to influence her. Should it turn out unhappily I could never forgive myself . . . never!" Sansevero looked at his wife in open-eyed amazement. "What has come over you, my dear! I am not proposing to sell your Miss Millions to a rag gatherer.
The journalist is both a news gatherer and a molder of thought. He informs his readers as to what is going on, and he points out the relation between cause and effect interprets current history. Public opinion is the controlling force in a republic, and the newspaper gives to the journalist, beyond every one else, the opportunity to affect public opinion.
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