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The three that succeeded them gave thirty-one more; and another yielded four pearls, each of which was as large as a small cherry. After that, I got one that was almost as large as a common hickory-nut, and six more of the size of the cherry-sized pearls. In addition to these, I got in all, one hundred and eighty-seven of the size of peas, besides a large handful of the seed pearl.
To admit ignorance of Tennyson or Milton or Shakespeare is bad form, even if one skimmed through them in college and has never disturbed the dust upon their covers since. I have heard a whispered, sneering remark after dinner, "I don't believe he ever heard of Browning," by one who had penetrated about as far into Browning's inner consciousness as a fly into the hickory-nut it crawls over.
He was an aged, cynical boy, with a phlegmatic mien and a face of the complexion and general appearance of a hickory-nut. A little surprised by the sudden apparition, Varney came down the deck and dropped into a chair near him. "Well, my lad! I'm happy to see you and your cigar again. But to what do we owe the pleasure of this call from you two old friends?"
"I wouldn't have thought, Kansas Bill," I said, "that you'd hold an old friend that cheap." Then he turned his head, and the hickory-nut cracked into a wide smile. "Give back the money," said he, "or I'll have the cop after you for false pretenses. I thought you was the cop." "I want to talk to you, Bill," I said. "When did you leave Oklahoma? Where is Reddy McGill now?
There are no particular features, no decided bumps, no decided hollows; the nose is only an enlarged ridge, the cheeks and eye-sockets only seams. But the eyes count yes, the eyes count count so that you see at once that they are the live points of the live coal smouldering beneath. Here the hickory-nut as a simile goes all to pieces.
After the sun had been risen some time, there came down from over the hills a troop of the most curious looking people. Many were short, little wizen-faced folks, that looked very old; or rather, they seemed old before they ought to be. Some were very aged and crooked, with hickory-nut faces, and hair of a reddish gray tint.
Luxuriant vines, laden with clusters of ripe grapes, twined around and festooned the trees to their summits, while the ground beneath was strewn with the hard-shelled hickory-nut and sweet mealy chestnut, which pattered down in thousands with the falling leaves.
This lad in short trousers, torn shirt, and a frayed straw hat above his mobile and cheerful face, might be only another sort of animal, a lover like themselves of the beech-nut and the hickory-nut. It was a gay world up here among the tossing branches. Across the river, on the first terrace of the hill, were weather-beaten farmhouses, amid apple orchards and cornfields.
"What they have here is made of fine meal with sugar in it." Jimmy made a wry face. "Wouldn't you like to have some fried chicken with cream gravy?" he whispered. "And some candied sweet potatoes and corn pones and pear pickle," Molly broke in. "And hot biscuits. But what shall we finish off with, Miss Brown?" "Brandied peaches and ice cream and hickory-nut cake." Jimmy gave a delighted laugh.
I'm only a little vindictive and cat-like. If people offend me, I like to play with them a bit, and amuse myself, and then kill them kill them kill them; that is all." This pretty little revelation of character was accompanied with a cruel smile that showed a long row of dazzling white teeth. They seemed capable of killing anything from a liar up to a hickory-nut.
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