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"See to your men, General Winder. Get them ready," said Hill. "I'm going a little way into the woods to see what I can see myself." He went, Lawton with him. Before many minutes had passed they were back. "Nearly walked into their lines! Strung across the Grapevine road. Massed thick between us and the Chickahominy. Scattered like acorns through the woods. Pretty miserable, I gather.
Those brought from France and Italy put on new vigor when they are domesticated on the Pacific coast of this continent; while the mission grapevine and others native in California, exported thence to the countries named, flourish marvelously and produce abundantly.
A familiar illustration of this tension will be found in the Dandelion curls of our childhood. By Geo. L. Goodale. Ivison & Co., New York, 1885. "From a long and thrifty young internode of grapevine cut a piece that shall measure exactly one hundred units, for instance, millimeters.
He's a lobbygow for the grapevine system they have now of selling the dope in spite of this new law." "Where does he get the stuff!" she asked. The waiter shrugged his shoulders. "Nobody knows, I guess. I don't. But he gets it in spite of the law and peddles it. Oh, it's all adulterated with some white stuff, I don't know what, and the price they charge is outrageous.
The grapevine guy swayed at our side, we heard the scow slide from the sands, and in a few moments, moved by two videttes, it touched our shore. Soon we were across, the two videttes riding with us, and beyond a sharp rise, in an old opening made by the swoop of a hurricane, we entered the silent unlighted bivouac of Ferry's scouts.
There's only one way in which the purse can be made up there's only one way in which economy is possible. You can save that money, Dr. Lively: you're the only member of the family who has a luxury." "Hang me with a grapevine if I've got any luxury!" said the doctor with something of an amused expression on his face. "Tobacco," suggested Napoleon. "Yes, it's tobacco.
One who walks in the woods at sunset sometimes hears it from a tangle of grapevine and bullbrier. If he has the patience to push his way carefully through the underbrush, he may see the beautiful Bob on a rock or stump, uttering the softest and most musical of whistles.
He did not reflect long. He went at once to the freight car whence he had seen the ragged arm extended two hours previous, and looked in. Back at one end were some broken grapevine crates, and it was dim and shadowy there, so he called out. "Any one here?" "Yes," came from the corner, and there was a rustling of straw. "I guess I know who," said Bart.
The roughest methods were used; wooden plows, brush harrows, straw collars, grapevine harness, and poor shelter for animals and crops; but were the Virginia methods any better? In these operations there was apparently a good deal of sudden profit and mushroom prosperity accompanied by a good deal of debt and insolvency. In this, too, they were like the Virginians and Carolinians.
It was no more to be noted than if a troop of dim and silent gray monkeys had been climbing a grapevine into the clouds. After a moment the window brightened as if the four panes of it had been stained with blood, and a quick ear might have been led to imagine the fire-imps calling and calling, clan joining clan, gathering to the colors.
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