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Then a day or two's tramping over the back trail will take me pretty nearly to New Boston that is, if nobody gobbles me up. I've got a rough road before me, but God has guided me thus far, and I'll trust him clean through. I've had some wonderful escapes to tell about "
"He can't do it, though, if Collaton gobbles up all he makes and injures his credit besides." Constance drew a deep breath. "I wish you to act as my agent, Ashley," she said crisply. "Mr. Gamble is certain to make some money, is he not?" "Johnny will always make money," he assured her.
She is always sitting with her little nose burrowing into books. She doesn't read them, Miss Minchin; she gobbles them up as if she were a little wolf instead of a little girl. She is always starving for new books to gobble, and she wants grown-up books great, big, fat ones French and German as well as English history and biography and poets, and all sorts of things.
It merely stands on the ground, shakes the tree with its beak until the fruit falls, and then gobbles it up. "I asked him what it lived on when there were no peaches to eat, but he did not know. It did not matter, he added gloomily, it did damage enough, and had just the day before cleaned off two of his very best trees.
"Not exactly enemies, but I do hate the way he gobbles his food and bullies the servants; and then he says such rude things about England perhaps it's only done on purpose to make me angry? He declares we are a wretched, rotten, played-out old country, going down the hill as hard as we can fly. He is narrow-minded, too; so arrogant the Germans can do no wrong, the English can never do right.
Mollified by these attentions, the ferocious animal very soon gobbles up all the creatures that devour the crops. In Albania, if the fields or vineyards are ravaged by locusts or beetles, some of the women will assemble with dishevelled hair, catch a few of the insects, and march with them in a funeral procession to a spring or stream, in which they drown the creatures.
She laughs in real earnest, opening her mouth as wide as it can go, showing not very pretty gums... She eats quite as heartily as she laughs, I think I may say she gobbles... She blushes and laughs every instant in so natural a way as to disarm anybody."
During the compulsory pause, Frederick had a chance to observe how sheafs of newspapers were being consumed by the pressing, crushing, jostling throngs. "The cow gobbles grass, and New York gobbles newspapers," Frederick thought. And heaven be praised!
The deep-sounding whoops of the sand-hill cranes the cries of herons, bitterns, and ibis the gobbles of turkeys the confused quacking of flocks of ducks the chattering of pelicans the melodious voices of thousands of song-birds the hum of millions of insects, all combined to create a volume of sound which effectually banished sleep.
To anybody that wasn't a turkey, their voices sounded just as sweet as Turkey Proudfoot's. But he claimed that there was something wrong with all gobbles except his own. Either they were too loud or too soft, too high or too low, too long or too short. And whenever a young cock gobbled in his hearing Turkey Proudfoot was sure to rush up to him and order him to keep still, for pity's sake!
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