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It was a makeshift policy, and one which did not commend itself to him as the ideal method, but it seemed the only thing to be done, for already the footsteps had reached the door. He threw the shoe out of window, and it sank beneath the friendly surface of the long grass round a wisteria bush.
When the grass grew again, the neighbor did not appear with his scythe; but one morning I found the cow tethered on the sward, hitched near the clothes-horse, a short distance from the house. This seemed to be the man's idea of the best way to cut the grass.
"'And if your honor does lock me up, the prisoner put in, 'I'll give your honor a thunderin' big lickin' when I get out. "The Judge took off his coat. "'Gentlemen, said he, 'it's a powerful queer argument, but the Court will admit it on its merits. The prisoner will please to step out on the grass." This time Virginia contrived merely to smile.
Turning, he saw his own horse quietly nipping at the grass in the crevices of the rocks along the trail. He walked down to the horse slowly and caught him up.
He tried to dive; got tangled in a lily stem in his fright; came up, flashed under again; and I saw him come up ten feet away in some grass, where he sat motionless and almost invisible amid the pads and yellow stems. How frightened he was! Yet how still he sat! Whenever I took my eyes from him a moment I had to hunt again, sometimes two or three minutes, before I could see him there.
There was no change whatever in the character or appearance of the country, or of the cliffs, and the latter were as steep and impracticable as ever. Five miles beyond the flint district we turned a little inland and halted for the night upon a patch of withered grass.
And just about one hundred years ago it was laid down in grass; that is, sown with grass seeds. And where did men get the grass seeds from? The way it must have been done was this. Men watched the natural pastures where cattle get fat on the wild grass, as they do in the Fens, and many other parts of England.
She lay flat down upon the grass and was silent for several minutes. Then she whispered to Jeanne. "Don't turn on your torch," she said. "Lie down here by my side, put your ear to the ground, and tell me whether you can hear anything." Jeanne obeyed her breathlessly. At first she could hear nothing.
"Ay! you can; you have got grass and water and everything to hand." "And so must you, young man, or you'll never be a farmer. "You are a fine lad, and I like you very well, but I love my own daughter better." "So do I!" said George simply. "And I must look out for her," resumed Merton.
So Olly and Charlie went off to their corner, and for a little while all the other children played there too. Milly had invented a game called the "Babes in the Wood," in which two children were the babes and pretended to die on the grass, and all the rest were the robins, and covered them up with hay instead of leaves.
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