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Upon the whilk, a horseman, suddenly riding up beside him, said, "That's a mettle beast of yours, freend; will you sell him?" So saying, he touched the horse's neck with his riding-wand, and it fell into its auld heigh-ho of a stumbling trot. "But his spunk's soon out of him, I think," continued the stranger, "and that is like mony a man's courage, that thinks he wad do great things."
Now won't you please read the twelfth and thirteenth verses of the fourteenth chapter of " But before the cane could finish the sentence, Willie heard some one opening the door. It was his father. He looked round in bewilderment. The oil in the lamp had burned out, and it was dark. The fire was low, and the room chilly. "Heigh-ho, Willie, my son," said Mr.
Left to himself, Percy set himself to work on straightening the bedspread, running around from one side to the other to pat and twitch impatiently. "As soon as I get one side nice, it all comes away from the other," he said to himself. "How in the world does Jane ever make a bed, I wonder?" And at last he deserted it altogether and drew off with a very hot face. "Heigh-ho!
"The apples are gathered, and laid on the shelf, Oh! heigh-ho! and laid on the shelf; If you want any more, you must sing for yourself, Oh! heigh-ho! and sing for yourself." Her small, high voice came to us in trills and spurts, as the wind let it, like the singing of a skylark lost in the sky. Pearse went up to her and whispered something.
It wouldn't do the kind that WOULD do," he queerly enough explained. "I mean they wouldn't stay heigh-ho! We'd do you ourselves. Particularly me. You see I CAN now; I haven't got to mind what I used to. I won't fight shy as I did she can show out WITH me. Our relation, all round, is more regular."
The squirrel continued to gaze at him, but at his first movement to arise, the frisky animal gave a swish of his brush and was gone up the tree in a twinkling. "Don't believe in making friends, that's sure." went on the young pioneer as he stretched himself. "Heigh-ho, but I must have slept pretty soundly, and for three hours at least! Well, it was as good a way as any to put in the time."
Bond appeared, the despairing woman betook herself to her green moreen rocking-chair, and, what else could she do? wept. Yes, wept! and while the red silk handkerchief hid her disappointed face, a heavy step sounded in the hall, and a familiar voice came through the half-open door of the little parlor. "Heigh-ho! what's the matter here?
Dropping him a little demure, mocking curtsy she turned and ran down the box-edged path, singing as she went, and the air she sang was Stephen La Mothe's "Heigh-ho! love is my life; Live I in loving and love I to live!" and the lilt of the music set Master Homer's heart throbbing. "There was a time," said Villon, "when I, too, could forget that rose arches are open at the ends.
'Grand old pig that! said Lockwood, as he gazed out upon the filthy yard, where a fat old sow contemplated the weather from the threshold of her dwelling. 'I wish she'd come out. I want to make a sketch of her, said the other. 'Even one's tobacco grows too damp to smoke in this blessed climate, said Lockwood, as he pitched his cigar away. 'Heigh-ho!
Why didn't I stay with the company and share its fortunes, as I said I was going to do, or why didn't father put his foot down and tell me I couldn't go to Missouri? Heigh-ho! This is what comes of being patriotic."
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