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Updated: May 1, 2025
As they were standing there a girl came galloping up to the hitching-post and slid from her horse. It was Berea McFarlane. "Good morning, Emery," she called to the surveyor. "Good morning," she nodded at Norcross. "How do you find yourself this morning?" "Homesick," he replied, smilingly. "Why so?" "I'm disappointed in the town." "What's the matter with the town?" "It's so commonplace.
It's he that fetched Ma'm'selle Sophie to the hitching-post. Voila, he can wind them all round his finger!" Baby looked round to see if any one was near; then he drew the miller's head down by pulling at his collar, and whispered in his ear: "He's hot foot for the Rebellion; that's one good thing," he said. "If he wipes out the English "
I was among those dispatched to Virginia, and to all intents and purposes I died the day I landed. There, the shell is full!" He tossed it from him, and going to the hitching-post loosed Haward's horse. Haward took the reins from his hand. "It hath been ten years and more since Virginia got her share of the rebels taken at Preston.
A moment later he pulled the slip-knot of his bridle from the hitching-bar, swung to the saddle and spurred his horse to a gallop. In a cloud of dust he swept round the building to the road and waved a hand derisively toward Doble. "See you later!" he shouted. The foreman wasted no breath in futile rage. He strode to the nearest hitching-post and flung himself astride leather.
On approaching the house he saw a light in Aurora's bedroom. He drove around to the kitchen door and tied the mare to the hitching-post. His rap was answered by Ellen, a quarryman's daughter whom Mrs. Googe employed for general help; but she spoke behind the closed door: "Who is it?" "It's me, Octavius Buzzby." She drew the bolt and flung open the door. "Oh, it's you, is it, Mr. Buzzby?
Fortunately, at the very moment this stinging remark was made, Phil Noble dashed up to the front gate, flung his bridle over the hitching-post, and lifted his hat from a very warm brow. 'Hail, chief of the commissary department! cried Geoffrey, with mock salute. 'Have you despatched the team?
"What's that?" cried Willie, the boy, his senses sharpened by the mention of danger. "It's the wind rattlin' my boat-chains," returned Chillis, smiling at the little fellow's startled looks. "Your boat-chain!" echoed his mother, not less startled. "Was it your boat that you were fastening to the hitching-post? I thought it was your horse.
Hugh wanted to know what the box-elder tree said, and what the Ford garage said, and what the big cloud said, and she told him, with a feeling that she was not in the least making up stories, but discovering the souls of things. They had an especial fondness for the hitching-post in front of the mill.
They were now passing the end of the hotel on their way to the rear, when they came near a hitching-post, to which rings were affixed with staples.
Billy Little's store building consisted of two log-built rooms. The long front room was occupied by the store and post-office. The back room, as Billy said, was occupied by his piano and himself. When he saw Rita, clothed in dainty calico and smiles, gallop up to the hitching-post, his heart was filled with joy, his face beamed with pleasure, and his scalp was suffused by a rosy hue.
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